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Overloading BINARY

The term “binary” in MySQL has many different meanings. How many can you come up with? I have 6, but I am willing to believe there are more! Here they are…

The State of Open Source Databases: OpenSQL Camp Keynote

Brian Aker delivers the keynote speech at OpenSQL Camp: State of the Open Source Databases. The presentation begins with a disclaimer:
“There is no way I’m going to tell you exactly where the future of databases go. We have way too many egos in the room to ever even begin a discussion…” and ends with Aker saying, “What the hell does that mean?” There’s a link to the video here.

OpenSQL Camp is in full swing!

OpenSQL Camp is in full swing! Baron Schwartz has done an amazing job organizing this free unconference. We are well into the 2nd session of the day, and the quality of the presentations is excellent (though I expected that!) and it is always great to see people.

Initial day at OpenSQL Camp

Lots of interesting talk, mainly MySQL related, and lots of food, just like it should be. There were some pictures taken, but I’ve yet to see them online, but keep watching Planet MySQL and I’m sure you’ll see them.

Thoughts on the Cloud

For those of you who have been under a rock for the last several years, there is a buzz-phrase floating around—cloud computing. If you haven’t been paying attention, it is time to wake up. While I could spend an entire blog post—if not several—on a definition of cloud computing, I will be talking only about cloud computing in the sense of companies moving servers from their building or network operations center to running virtual servers in this computing cloud.

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