Using PBXT 0.9.5
Paul has released Version 0.95 of his PBXT MySQL Transactional Storage Engine. Here is what I did to get it operational under CentOS 4.3. su - useradd pbxt su - pbxt wget...
View ArticleMySQL Conference – PBXT Recognized
As I mentioned in MySQL Conference – Rewarding the Community, Paul McCullagh, the creator of the Community Transactional Storage Engine PBXT won the Community Code Contributor of the Year award. A...
View ArticleMy passion for Open Source
I am a very strong proponent of Open Source (excluding my Macbook). Joining MySQL Inc was a wonderful achievement, being part of the team behind the most popular open source database. Leaving MySQL was...
View ArticleJust what are MySQL 9.x features?
Top marks to Jay Pipes for getting the Forge 2.0 finally out after quite some time, as well as in the midst of the MySQL Conference he is organizing. I am worried however about some of the content, as...
View ArticleA day with Paul McCullagh – Architect of PBXT and BlobStreaming
Continuing on from my lightning visits with Jan Kneschke and Michael Zinner, today I got to spend a day with Paul McCullagh at his home in Hamburg Germany. Paul is the architect of the PBXT Pluggable...
View ArticleCome and get a t-shirt at UC2008
Here I am at my desk sporting the PrimeBase supporters t-shirt that will be available at the exhibitors booth at the 2008 MySQL Conference. The front is rather uneventful with the official logo, but...
View ArticleStorage Engines at the MySQL Conference
I’ll be following closely the progression of Storage Engines available in the MySQL Database server, well soon to be available when 5.1 gets to GA (hopefully by end of Q2 which is what we have been...
View ArticleThe pursuit of a synchronous world
Well at least your MySQL database world. As Paul eluded to, PrimeBase Technologies has a project to provide synchronous replication for MySQL in a High Availability environment. It is more then an...
View ArticleA few words from Jonathan Schwartz
Following Marten Mickos, the second opening keynote at the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo was by Jonathan Schwartz CEO and President of Sun Microsystems. Blog His opening joke was about dinner with...
View ArticleUnderstanding the various MySQL Products & Variants
The MySQL marketplace today is far more complex then simply choosing between a particular version of MySQL that Sun/MySQL produces. The MySQL server product in general is released under the GNU General...
View ArticleA call to arms!
With Oracle Corporation purchasing InnoBase, the company providing the InnoDB Storage Engine, and now reliable rumors of the acquisition of SleepyCat, the BDB Storage Engine, both key transactional...
View ArticleTesting a new MySQL Transactional Storage Engine
As part of my A call to arms! post about a month ago, I’ve had a number of unofficial comments of support. In addition, I’ve also been approached to assist in the completion of a MySQL Transactional...
View ArticleAtomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability = ACID
ACID is the key transaction processing feature for a RDBMS. Without this, the integrity of the database cannot be guaranteed. In Summary. Atomicity is an all-or-none proposition. Consistency guarantees...
View ArticleContributing to JMeter
As part of my using JMeter for the purpose of testing a new Transactional storage engine PBXT for MySQL, I’ve been investigating the best approach for handling transactions. Read more about earlier...
View ArticleOpening Conference Keynote
Mike writes a good summary of the MySQL Conference opening keynote State of the Dolphin: Interview with Kaj, Monty and David of MySQL. I’d like to add just two comments. Firstly, it was great to see...
View ArticlePBXT – The MySQL Community Transactional Storage Engine
In having a discussion with Paul McCullagh (the creator of PBXT transactional storage engine) and Taneli Otala MySQL AB CTO after the keynote presentation at the MySQL User Conference, Taneli made the...
View ArticleThe Answer is: PBXT
Round 2. Question 2? From the MySQL Quiz Show. (you had to be there)
View ArticleMigrating an MyISAM schema to use Referential Integrity
Here are some steps involved. Using the current MySQL defacto engine InnoDB. Of course, Falcon, PBXT and others will enable alternative engines to be used. Convert Table Storage Engine Types $ mysql...
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