Entries Tagged as 'databases'
MySQL, UTF8 and my sanity
I’ve never really had to do much with UTF-8, consequently my facility with it has been, shall we say… limited. Recently, though, I found myself needing to delve a bit deeper - it was surprisingly simple once I understood what was going on, but that understanding eluded me for many an hour. I called in [...]
Sun is buying MySQL??
What, the?? Sun is buying MySQL… they’re putting a billion dollars into this. Here’s some words from MySQL on the subject. Some more. And here’s the MySQL blog. It confuses me a little, but maybe it shouldn’t. I’m conflicted as to whether or not this will ultimately be good or bad for MySQL. On the [...]
The Wonder of Good Search: Quicksilver
by sean9
Everyone waxes on and on about google’s search being so good. Don’t get me wrong, it is good. But many of our desktops are not enjoying that same goodness.
I’ve recently returned to the Macintosh world, with this Mac Book Pro I pickedup a year ago. It is a gorgeous machine in [...]
Oracle Acquisitions
Oracle’s at it again! This time they are buying Hyperion Solutions Corp. Hyperion is a company that makes a lot of tools used by SAP’s customers and SAP is a big competitor for Oracle. So this acquisition is, again, a direct attack against a competitor. SAP joins the company of RedHat and MySQL.
I don’t have [...]
Another Crack In Oracle’s Unbreakable Strategy
So IBM just announced that they are not certifying Unbreakable Linux to be compatible with their software. This spells trouble for the struggling “distribution”. Oracle was already having difficulty getting people to sign up to their bargain basement rebranding of RedHat Enterprise, with this announcement even more doubt will be cast on the advisability of [...]
Categories: databases · free software
Vertica promises you the world
So I just read a little about Vertica (off of slashdot) - which is a “grid-enabled, column-oriented relational database management system”. I don’t know much about it but I read anything that promises me 100x performance with several salt grains. I hope that they really will provide what they promise (hardware savings all around!), but [...]
Categories: databases
Unbreakable, broken
So Oracle, as far as I can tell, has got it’s hate on for open source companies. It is going for the gusto with Unbreakable Linux and potentially with Unbreakable MySQL. It already fired a shot directly into MySQL’s bow with it’s purchases of innoDB and sleepycat - two key elements of MySQL’s landscape.
I want [...]
Categories: databases · feature · free software
Review: PostgreSQL by Douglas
This is the text of my amazon review of this book. I gave it 3 stars - and a whole rant post, but that didn’t affect the rating I gave it. Honestly, I’d give it a pass, but it may fit the bill for some.
This book lives up to it’s claims for “the comprehensive guide [...]
Review: MySQL Stored Procedure Programming by Harrison
This is the text of my amazon review, I gave it 4 stars.
Having worked in java and oracle with pl/sql some time ago, I’m in the “probably better not to use stored procedures” camp for most environments - but now that mysql offers them, I figured it was best to see how they tackled the [...]
