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MySQL and hardware information
People often ask “what’s the best hardware to run a database on?” And the answer, of course, is “it depends”. With
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Blogrotate #3: The Weekly Roundup of News for System Administrators
Welcome to volume 3 of Blogrotate. This is a short one this week, which is mostly dominated by the release of Windows 7. I have not had a chance to
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Log Buffer #166: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
This week the Log Buffer is a little more challenging for two reasons: a) Oracle Open World 2009 and b) the controversy around Monty Widenius‘
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pythian: Pythian's Alex Gorbachev is running a webinar on monitoring MySQL with Oracle Grid Control. Check is out: http://tinyurl.com/l7hnq9
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pythian: RT @piontekdd #Oracle 11gR2 to be released tomorrow. @paulvallee of #pythian has some thoughts that I agree with http://bit.ly/XbzBM
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pythian: Join us for a webinar June 4: Migrating to an Open Source DB Platform. Paul Vallee speaking. Register at http://tinyurl.com/mcob6y
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DBA, Brookfield Energy
We are very satisfied by the service given to us by Andre and Shakir in support of our recent data quality and reorganization initiative.... more
IT Apps Manager, McGrath
Catherine did excellent on this CR. Her notes are very clear and shows her knowledge of the subject. She is prompt with communicating changes. I am... more
It Administrator, St. Joseph Publishing
Pythian did a very good job to fix our Oracle problem. I sent an e-mail to their support and got a call right away. Thanks to the sales team and the... more
