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		<title>Extract the Synopsis of a Module</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 15:46:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yanick Champoux</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I begin to work with a module, most of the time what I do is to look at its pod, and copy the code in the synopsis that I&#8217;ll use as a a baseline. Open pod, copy, paste. That&#8217;s a lot of exhausting work&#8230; While I&#8217;m pretty sure there&#8217;s already a better tool to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing production systems: document, test, verify, try again.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danil Zburivsky</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days ago I was reading a paper Paxos Made Live &#8211; An Engineering Perspective written by Google engineers. It is an interesting reading about implementation of Paxos algorithm for building a fault-tolerant database. But one paragraph made me think I am reading something very familiar: We decided to err on the side [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oracle Exadata V1 Documentation is Published</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Fielding</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update: it looks like the link is no longer available I was searching oracle.com for some Exadata-related wait events, and noticed some hits popping up from formerly closely-held Exadata documentation. Upon closer look, I found the full Exadata V1 user&#8217;s guide, now conveniently posted to download.oracle.com: http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/E12040_02/toc.htm I hope the V2 documentation will be posted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the ALTER TABLE privilege is not enough to run ALTER TABLE</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Singer Wang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently granted ALTER access in MySQL so a user could run the ALTER TABLE command . However after I granted the necessary privileges, the user was still not able to perform the tasks needed. Reproducing the issue using a test instance, I granted a test user the required privileges and MySQL reported no errors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dependence on MySQL Documentation</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/3444/dependence-on-mysql-documentation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:16:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think many people truly realized how much they take the MySQL documentation for granted during the recent multi-hour outage from mysql.com&#8217;s data center. Apparently there is a lot of FUD floating around about the legality of mirroring the documentation, as presented by Justin Swanhart and asked by Mark Callaghan. The manual page at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/copyright-mysql.html [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL Documentation Licensing Woes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now many folks know that MySQL documentation is not changing its license. This is an issue with many sides, but before I go through them, I want to address a comment made by Masood Mortazavi: People who are interested in forking the server &#8212; and potentially interested in creating what is in effect separate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySQL Reference Manual Search</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/1280/mysql-reference-manual-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerry Narvaja</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Brown&#8217;s blog shows a pretty good way of navigating the MySQL Reference Manual. It&#8217;s worth noting, however, that finding the different topics has been a lot easier since mysql.com started using a Google appliance for its search. I use the documentation all the time and have been doing so for years (I won&#8217;t claim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Oracle Follows Good Database Development Standardsâ€¦ NOT</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/837/how-oracle-follows-good-database-development-standards%e2%80%a6-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Gorbachev</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is what I found in the APEX documentation that comes with Oracle 11g, in the chapter describing building a very simple application: In Region Source, add the following at the end of the existing code: WHERE nvl(DEPARTMENT_ID,&#8217;-1&#8242;) = nvl(:P3_DEPARTMENT_ID,&#8217;-1&#8242;) This WHERE clause changes the query to display only those employees that belong to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unintentional Googlewhack Leads to MySQL Bug Report</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/893/unintentional-googlewhack-leads-to-mysql-bug-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sheeri Cabral</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While doing a standard audit for a new client, I recommended a few changes to get better performance. Because I had several changes, I used the documentation at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/server-system-variables.html and found that innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit is a dynamic variable. I was surprised, because most operations dealing with file sizes and operations are not dynamic. But the client [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you tired of weak, crappy coffee?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 14:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Babette Turner-Underwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am an ex-tea tottler. Several months ago, I started to once again drink that elixir of the Database Gods. Now that I am beginning to drink coffee again, I can really appreciate Jon Emmons&#8217;s humor in naming his blog site www.lifeaftercoffee.com. Truly, a DBAs work life does NOT begin until after coffee. Unfortunately, it [...]]]></description>
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