Archive for January 16th, 2008

Deadlock

January 16, 2008 in Uncategorized

This is your code on multicore processors. Be afraid.

MySQL At Odds with the Community?

January 16, 2008 in mysql

Dathan is all of a sudden in love with MySQL:
MySQL is by far the best Open source Database on the planet-support reflects that fact. I highly recommend getting a support contract to trouble shoot issues that make it into production, less learning the entire mysql code base and doing it yourself. (I know alot about [...]

Sun Buys MySQL – Good Call

January 16, 2008 in clustering, linux, mysql, open source

The entire Internet is buzzing today about Sun buying MySQL.
… we’re putting a billion dollars behind the M in LAMP. If you’re an industry insider, you’ll know what that means – we’re acquiring MySQL AB, the company behind MySQL, the world’s most popular open source database.
Both sets of customers confirmed what we’ve known for years [...]

Fun with Google Spell Checking , XFS, and ZFS

January 16, 2008 in Uncategorized

If you run the following query on google:
“Major Downtime Due To ZFS Bug”
You get the following suggestion:
“Did you mean: Major Downtime Due To XFS Bug “

That’s funny!