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	<title>The Pythian Blog &#187; Sheeri Cabral</title>
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		<title>A Pythian Fork</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:17:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today marks my last day at Pythian. I have been at Pythian for almost three years. In those three years, Pythian&#8217;s already thriving MySQL practice has grown even more. I have worked with big and small clients alike, across many industries, managed a team of up to 4 DBAs, and learned a lot not just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Warehousing Best Practices:  Comparing Oracle to MySQL, part 2 (partitioning)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Kscope this year, I attended a half day in-depth session entitled Data Warehousing Performance Best Practices, given by Maria Colgan of Oracle. My impression, which was confirmed by folks in the Oracle world, is that she knows her way around the Oracle optimizer. See part 1 for the introduction and talking about power and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Warehousing Best Practices:  Comparing Oracle to MySQL, part 1 (introduction and power)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Kscope this year, I attended a half day in-depth session entitled Data Warehousing Performance Best Practices, given by Maria Colgan of Oracle. My impression, which was confirmed by folks in the Oracle world, is that she knows her way around the Oracle optimizer. These are my notes from the session, which include comparisons of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Determining I/O throughput for a system</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Kscope this year, I attended a half day in-depth session entitled Data Warehousing Performance Best Practices, given by Maria Colgan of Oracle. In that session, there was a section on how to determine I/O throughput for a system, because in data warehousing I/O per second (iops) is less important than I/O throughput (how much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Online Verification That Master and Slaves are in Sync</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/4397/online-verification-that-master-and-slaves-are-in-sync/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In October 2008, Baron posted How to Check MySQL Replication Integrity Continually. Here at Pythian we have developed a method based on that post, and added &#8220;verifying that masters and slaves are in sync&#8221; to our standard battery of tests. We call it &#8220;Continual replication sync checking&#8221;. This article will explain how it works, how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Webinar:  What you need to know for a MySQL 5.0 -&gt; 5.1 upgrade</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/15027/webinar-what-you-need-to-know-for-a-mysql-5-0-5-1-upgrade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/15027/webinar-what-you-need-to-know-for-a-mysql-5-0-5-1-upgrade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IOUG has a free series of three webinars on upgrading MySQL. Each webinar is an hour long, and it starts with a webinar by me tomorrow at 12 noon Central time (GMT-5) on &#8220;Why and How to Upgrade to MySQL 5.1&#8243;. The webinar assumes you are upgrading from MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.1, and talks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using MySQL Partitioning Instead of MERGE Tables</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/14971/using-mysql-partitioning-instead-of-merge-tables/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/14971/using-mysql-partitioning-instead-of-merge-tables/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One common question I get is how to use partitioning instead of MERGE tables. The process I use involves using stored procedures to create and drop partitions. This article will go over the stored procedures I use; special thanks to Roland Bouman for taking a look and giving great feedback to optimize this process. First, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three editions of MySQL are available</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/14823/three-editions-of-mysql-are-available/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, you read the title correctly &#8212; there are three editions of MySQL available, according to http://www.mysql.com/products/enterprise/server.html. Well, that page names two, and then of course there is the community edition&#8230;. From the manual page: MySQL Enterprise Server is available in the following editions: * MySQL Enterprise Server &#8211; Pro is the world&#8217;s most popular [...]]]></description>
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		<title>INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables are case sensitive</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/11867/information_schema-tables-are-case-sensitive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pythian.com/news/11867/information_schema-tables-are-case-sensitive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to get examples of some of the extra information that the Percona server has in its INFORMATION_SCHEMA metadata, and in doing so, I stumbled across an interesting MySQL bug/feature/point &#8212; INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables (which are actually system views) are case sensitive when used in comparisons: mysql&#62; use information_schema; Reading table information for completion of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The XLDB4 Conference for Very Large Databases</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/14307/conferences-including-xldb4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ronald saved me a post by giving his feedback on a few Oracle conferences that now have MySQL content. My opinion is pretty much a summary of Ronald&#8217;s post, so I won&#8217;t repeat it here. Instead, I&#8217;ll post about a conference he did not, the 4th Extremely Large Databases Conference. I am particularly interested in [...]]]></description>
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