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Storage miniconf at linux.conf.au 2010

Since you were going to linux.conf.au 2010 in Wellington, NZ anyway in January of next year, you should submit a proposal to speak at the data storage and retrieval miniconf. If you have something to...

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Storage Miniconf Deadline Extended!

The linux.conf.au organisers have given all miniconfs an additional few weeks to spruik for more proposal submissions, huzzah! So if you didn’t submit a proposal because you weren’t sure whether you’d...

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The actual range and storage size of an INT

What’s the difference between INT(2) and INT(20) ? Not a lot. It’s about output formatting, which you’ll never encounter when talking with the server through an API (like you do from most app...

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Challenge: identify this pattern in datadir

You take a look at someone’s MySQL (or MariaDB) data directory, and see mysql foo bar -> foo What’s the issue? Identify pattern. What does it mean?  Consequences. Is there any way it can be safe and...

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On Password Strength

XKCD (as usual) makes a very good point – this time about password strength, and I reckon it’s something app developers need to consider urgently. Geeks can debate the exact amount of entropy, but...

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A Stick Figure Guide to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)

http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html Jeff Moser on software development

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LexisNexis open sources code for Hadoop alternative

http://gigaom.com/cloud/lexisnexis-open-sources-code-for-hadoop-alternative/ HPCC Systems has released the open source code of its data-processing software that it’s positioning as a better version of...

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SQL Locking and Transactions – OSDC 2011 video

This recent session at OSDC 2011 Canberra is based on part of an Open Query training day, and (due to time constraints) without much of the usual interactivity, exercises and further MySQL specific...

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Open Query training at Drupal DownUnder 2012

DrupalDownUnder 2012 will be held in Melbourne Australia 13-15 January. A great event, I’ve been to several of its predecessors. People there don’t care an awful lot for databases, but they do realise...

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Server Ownership Legalities

As I reported via Twitter late last week, we encountered an issue that got some of our mail delivery delayed by about a day and a half. I’ll explain more about what happened as I believe in openness on...

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