Unleash the Power of Your Data Using Open Source Business Intelligence Christopher Lavigne (Breadboard BI, Inc.) The official conference description is at: http://www.mysqlconf.com/mysql2009/public/schedule/detail/5593 Download the PPT slides at http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/21/Unleash%20the%20Power%20of%20Your%20Data%20Using%20Open%20Source%20Business%20Intelligence%20Presentation.ppt

MySQL DML Statistics using mysqlbinlog - 1 liner

Open Source means that the source code is open. There are many inferences that can be made from this, and many stereotypes that can be applied, but in the end, all it means is that you can read the source code as well as use the binaries.I am not a developer. I fully admit this. What I mean by this is that my strengths do not lie in engineering new code to do things. Give me some Lego™s or some Wedgits™ and I look at the instructions to see what to build.However, I am an engineer.One of my team's current tasks is to restore a backup (using InnoDB Hot Backup, and compressed) from a client's production machine to a development instance.....Weekly -- thus we want to automate it......And did I mention the development machine has 5 different MySQL instances on it, running all on 127.0.0.1 on different ports?The steps are:0) stop the desired mysql instance 1) move the development datadir and logs to a backup  []

An useful collection of places where you can find data available for benchmarks

The title says it all, and the explanation is very interesting. The consequences of disabling binlog due to lack of storage are catastrophic. Entertaining and worrying at the same time.

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