Появление российских бомбардировщиков Ту-95, совершавших очередное патрулирование, у воздушной границы Канады оказалось неожиданностью для канадских ВВС, пишет 30 июля The National Post. Как заявил министр обороны Канады Питер Маккэй (Peter MacKay), "неожиданное появление" российских стратегических бомбардировщиков встревожило канадские ВВС, из-за чего с аэродрома в Квебеке для сопровождения Ту-95 были подняты два истребителя CF-18. Он также отметил, что самолеты ВВС РФ неоднократно пролетали в непосредственной  []

MySQL seems to be happy to convert types for you. Developers are rushed to complete their project and if the function works they just move on. But what is the costs of mixing your types? Does it matter if your are running across a million rows or more? Lets find out.

How to configure durability, scalability and High Availability for MySQL Cluster - both individually and in combination.

When examining the execution plan of troublesome queries in MySQL, most users are aware of using EXPLAIN. However, an often overlooked, yet very helpful extension of EXPLAIN, is EXPLAIN EXTENDED coupled with the SHOW WARNINGS command.

In Beware of implicit casting, I have outlined the dangers of implicit casting. Here’s a few more real-world examples I have tackled

The InnoDB Plugin has many improvements over the built-in version, and it's a breeze to install, so if you're running 5.1 and using InnoDB, you should make the switch.

Tracking down InnoDB lock information using the new Information Schema tables provided with the InnoDB plugin has never been easier.

Intended use case for Arbitration=WaitExternal and ArbitrationTimeout=N

Guides on how to download, install, configure and test MySQL Cluster in under 15 minutes.

Google CL

Experiences of an Oracle DBA getting up to speed on MySQL and InnoDB.

Learning the strength of MySQL User Defined Variables by practical examples.

This blog post describes Shard-Query, a tool which runs queries over sharded databases in parallel using Gearman.

I came across two hidden problems, which may happen often, but are somehow difficult to detect and even more difficult to fix, unless you know what's going on, and why. I presented both cases during my tutorial, but there were no pictures to convey the mechanics of the problem. Here is the full story.

MySQL Stored procedure to Generate-Extract Insert Statement

MySQL Installation Using RPM

Some simple instructions on how to build MySQL with Cmake

Did you ever have a need to find the maximum value of an integer in MySQL? Some people seem to need this, and this is what Roland came up with

Latest code of MySQL Connector/Python on launchpad has support for multiple result sets when you execute a stored procedure. We also changed the way the actual result of the routine is returned to conform to PEP249.

I use it in Oracle and notice there are 10 days missed, but i didn't see it in MySQL.