Bernt found out that There is More Than One Way To Do It ( TMTOWTDI ) is true for Derby too, and wrote a wiki page which explains how to access a Derby database from Perl using the DBD::JDBC module. ...
If you look at a how the (community version) of memcached works, all servers are completely isolated from each other. They don't know (or care) about the existence of other servers, and all advanced ...
Ok, so you've investigated the conference and you have a title for your talk. Now they want a talk abstract and description, and maybe a bio. What do you put there?
ScienceLogic embeds MySQL in its EM7 network management appliances. An installation of EM7 can perform over half a billion database queries daily, storing massive amounts of data for both real-time ...
By now, it is already a 5-day-old news that Java DB 10.5.1 has been released ! Great team work and effort went into this release! Thank you Kim Haase, Liz Drachnik, Hery Ramilison, Edward Ort and the ...
With the release of the OpenSolaris 2009.06, I thought it is time to update the Minimal OpenSolaris 2008.11 Appliance OVF image that I had created earlier. The script create_osol2009006_app.sh has ...
Simon Riggs of 2nd Quadrant recently submitted a patch for testing which should improve read only scalability of Postgres. I took it for a test drive for my setup. In the first set of tests I used ...
Java DB 10.5.1.1 has just been posted on the Java DB site . This release contains the exact same jar files as, and is functionally equivalent to, the recently released Apache Derby 10.5.1.1 . In ...
At PGCon 2009, Jesper Pedersen talked to me about the new Binary Transfer patch which was submitted to the JDBC Driver for Postgres 8.4. I thought it will be nice to compare how the JDBC 8.4 driver ...
Kristian Waagan (of Sun's Java DB development team) has really given Java DB (Sun's distribution of Apache / Derby) a new life of its own when it comes to handling CLOBs, starting with Java DB 10.5. ...
One of the things I spoke about last year, and this year again at the Developer meeting, was what should be our highest priorities for technical development to drive PostgreSQL adoption. That is, ...
During my PGCon 2009 presentation there was a question on the saw tooth nature of the workload results on the high end side of benchmark runs. To which Matthew Wilcox (from Intel) commented it could ...
Thursday. Dave, Magnus and Selena gave their keynote, which was more funny than anything else. Dan also announced that pgCon would be sponsoring the Website Design Contest. Then we had 6 hours of ...
Wow, pgCon is already over and I'm on my way home. This year's conference flew by, an intense journey of tutorials, meetings, sessions, dinners and one big party. And one big blur of 1am discussions ...
On the first day of PGCon 2009 I presented on my results of my testing with Postgres 8.4beta1 vs the earlier version (8.3.7). The good news is it should not cause any regressions to existing users of ...
Tomorrow (Wednesday, May 20, 2009), Ulf Wendel and Andrey Hristov, engineers working in the Connector team of Sun|MySQL database group, will be presenting a webinar about the new MySQL Connector/C++ ...
While working on my upcoming presentation for PGCon 2009 on Thursday , I found that sometimes it is misleading to just take one snapshot of locks to figure the hot locks in PostgreSQL workload ...
I modified one of Robert's dtrace scripts so that it is useful for my purpose to measure often asked transactions per second for random workload running on PostgreSQL. The script is as follows: ...
Thanks to O'Reilly, we once again have a room for a full day at the OSCON venue. Only this year, the venue is the San Jose Convention Center. You should submit a talk.
In a laudable effort to pull together the MySQL companies before Oracle lowers the axe on Sun/MySQL, Monty Widenius has launched the Open Database Alliance ...
A while back I looked at the Memcached UDF for MySQL, and noticed that it didn't use libmemcached in an optimal way. In order to work in a multithreaded environment it used the following pattern: ...