(Robin Hohman) “There’s a tendency to think of the community as being entirely volunteers somehow working for free in their basements, but invariably they’re in government or research,” said Red Hat’s Rick Carr. “For the commercial products, such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, where the customer base

In the fourth article of our series, we covered basic data binding and used it to populate our VB.NET 2005 form with data from our MySQL database. While this worked well to move data from a table to a control on our form, it lacked the versatility needed to allow for blank status messages and custom

Partitioning is a physical database design technique that many data modelers and DBAs are quite familiar with. Partitioning allows large objects within a database to be split into small, more manageable pieces. There are a number of benefits that come with partitioning, but the two main advantages a

This article is fifth in a series of articles describing how to create a simple Windows application that queries and updates a MySQL database. So far we have designed our application and our database, installed MySQL and VB.NET, created our database, and created a basic application. This application

(Jeremy Cole) For the past few weeks off and on, as part of Proven Scaling’s project to improve the MySQL server, I’ve been helping Joel Seligstein to really dig into the MySQL source code and add some features, in preparation for a much bigger feature coming up (more on that at a future date). He h

(Mark R. Hinkle) I recently read an article in the “mainstream” media that gave me pause. The author made an assertion that the current trend towards Open Source might just be a passing fad. I thought about this and looked critically at the software industry, thinking about whether there was merit i

(Peter Zaitsev) I’ve run into the following thread couple of days ago: Basically someone is using sphinx to perform search simply on attributes (date, group etc) and get sorted result set and claiming it is way faster than getting it with MySQL. Honestly I can well believe it for cases when you w

This article is part four of a series of articles on how to create a simple Windows application using Visual Basic.NET and MySQL. In previous articles we have designed our database, installed the software we need to create our application, and designed a simple login form. The previous three article

There has been a proliferation of Python web frameworks lately, possibly due in part to the success of Ruby on Rails. I don’t claim to be an expert in web applications, but I have been playing around two of the frameworks: Django and TurboGears. I don’t think TurboGears could be any easier to instal

(Peter Zaitsev) My favorite question during Interview for people to work as MySQL DBAs or be involved with MySQL Performance in some way is to ask them what should be tuned in MySQL Server straight after installation, assuming it was installed with default settings.