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		<title>Gerry Narvaja: the Winds Of Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:33:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Narvaja</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For very personal reasons that don&#8217;t belong in this article, I decided a few weeks ago that it&#8217;s time for me to move on. The year and a half that I worked for Pythian have been a wonderful experience, and this is article is my tribute to this great company. The MySQL Team Being able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>sar-sql: The Script Formerly Known as MySAR</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Narvaja</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As pointed out by Schlomi Noach on my last blog, MySAR was already taken by a project related to Squid reports with MySQL. I decided then to look for a new name, and as I posted initially, I want to keep the sar prefix to describe the script&#8217;s purpose by association with the OS utility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #166: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Narvaja</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8216; opposition to Oracle owning MySQL due to the Sun acquisition, so let&#8217;s go straight to the articles. Oracle &#8211; Oracle Open World 2009 There is so much material about OOW09, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySAR, a Sidekick for Other Monitoring Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Narvaja</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[MySQL]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure that most people have at least one of the tools listed in Ronald Bradford&#8217;s article: Monitoring MySQL Options. Many of these tools, such as Nagios and Cacti, also monitor the operating system. However, in the same way that a quick look at sar&#8216;s output can give you some insight on the OS, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySAR: A sar-like Utility for MySQL</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Narvaja</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why a New Utility? A couple of months back, Tim Procter, Sheeri Cabral and I were discussing about how best to diagnose a MySQL server and/or tune its performance, automating the process as much as possible. The Performance Advisors from MySQL Enterprise do this, but most of our customers don&#8217;t have a subscription and Pythian&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Log Buffer #161: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Narvaja</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the 161st edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs &#8230; and the first one under my penmanship. MySQL Johan Andersson explains in a very simple way the scenarios in which you may fall into a split brain situation and how to avoid it in MySQL Cluster on two hosts &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using the Sphinx Search Engine with MySQL</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Narvaja</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MySQL Full Text Search Limitations Suppose you have a MyISAM table containing a column with a full text index. This table starts to grow to a significant size (millions of rows) and gets updated fairly frequently. Chances are that you&#8217;ll start to see some bottlenecks when accessing this table, since without row level locking, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bug When Compiling MySQL 5.1 From Source</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/2874/bug-when-compiling-mysql-51-from-source/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Narvaja</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just filed a very annoying bug when trying to compile with plugin engines using the 5.1.xx source tarball. Description I am trying to test SphinxSE as a plugin instead of getting it statically linked and came across an annoying bug. When using the configure --with-plugins option only once, the engine is statically linked. When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Two Cents on MySQL Password Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Narvaja</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lenz Grimmer recently wrote two blogs about password security on MySQL. Both are worth reading in detail. You&#8217;ll find them in Basic MySQL Security: Providing passwords on the command line and More on MySQL password security. Although I wrote a comment on the latter one, there is one point I thought was worth its own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Buys Sun: What About MySQL?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Narvaja</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you review the recent years of Oracle&#8217;s history, you&#8217;ll see that its purchase of Sun makes perfect sense. Oracle has tried to get in the OS business (Oracle Ubreakable Linux), the hardware business with their different partnerships (e.g.: Hewlett Packard Partner Relationship), and even into the MySQL business back when they bought InnoBase (Oracle [...]]]></description>
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