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DB Rambles | 2007-07-13
Congrats to the PostgreSQL/EnterpriseDB/Sun Team for BenchmarksI wanted to write a quick shout-out to congratulate the PostgreSQL development team, the folks at Sun who work with Josh Berkus, and the folks at EnterpriseDB, all of whom […]
DB Rambles | 2006-02-11
Do the New Features of MySQL 5 Cause Performance Degradation?Some recent blog posts by Markus and Frank got me thinking about some important things when considering an upgrade to MySQL 5. Did adding much-needed features — such as stored […]
DB Rambles | 2005-11-23
Great MySQL Idea from Giuseppe MaxiaRoland Bouman sent me an email yesterday alerting me to an idea presented by Giuseppe Maxia on the MySQL Stored Procedures forum a couple days ago. The idea, in a […]
DB Rambles | 2005-03-15
Forrester Report on SQL Server 2005 ScalabilityAn article on E-Week about a Forrester report on high performance computing sparked some thoughts. The report claims that Microsoft’s planned 2005 release of SQL Server will have few, if […]
DB Rambles | 2005-03-14
MySQL Missing in IDC StudyI found it strange that MySQL was notably missing from an InformationWeek DatabasePipeline article today about growth in market share of both Oracle and Microsoft. At first, I though perhaps […]
DB Rambles | 2005-02-24
MySQL and INFORMATION_SCHEMAs. Flash from my past.It’s been a long time since I worked on Microsoft SQL Server. Well, relatively long, in IT terms. Since I’ve been doing all my recent work on MySQL, there are […]
DB Rambles | 2005-02-24
Doxygen Docs coming along for MySQL 5.0.2I’ve been working on outputting the code documentation for MySQL 5.0.2 using doxygen, and have some advice to anyone attempting this feat. Don’t configure doxygen to generate call graphs!. At […]
DB Rambles | 2005-02-23
Pro MySQL book coming soonFirst announcement on this site about my upcoming book, entitled Pro MySQL, published through Apress. Really excited so far. I’m co-authoring the book with Michael Kruckenberg, out at Tufts University. […]