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January 30, 2007
MySQL Coming to Unbreakable Marketing?
Everything else is Unbreakable, why not MySQL? Why not indeed. Rik van Riel talks with Marten Mickos where he talks about just that.
Of course moves like this not only help Oracle, but they can sometimes (to use a popular term these days) embolden the technology, and providers. What's more those of us implementing technology infrastructure in enterprises know that having one provider for everything isn't always a good thing. But competition is...
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January 22, 2007
Speaking at Collaborate 2007
I'm very excited to announce that my talk In bed with Oracle - Lifting The Covers On Database Creation
has been selected by IOUG for their Collaborate 2007. The conference will be held this April in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The talk will discuss database creation. Because of better GUI tools, this has become a more & more overlooked area of Oracle. We pull back the covers, revealing what Oracle is doing at each stage. Why do we have startup nomount, mount, restrict, and open? What OS resources is Oracle using at each step? How do we issue CREATE DATABASE? What is the simplest init.ora file? How many file descriptors does Oracle use and why? From conception to birth, our microscope will reveal the secrets.
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January 05, 2007
MySQL - new Falcon storage engine
MySQL AB, the company that releases the open-source MySQL database has announced a new storage engine called Falcon.
In MySQL, storage engines determine the features of the underlying tables. For non-transaction tables (readers and writers not protected from each other) MySQL has MyISAM, and for transactional tables, Bdb and InnoDB. Now the new Falcon type is poised to take the lead as the best choice for high-transaction websites.
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