Linux.conf.au this year kicks off next week in Ballarat, just down the road from me.  I'll be there and even have a speaking gig, not in the main conference but in the HA and Distributed Storage mini-conf before the main event. I'll be talking about… more »

So far we've looked at many aspects of MySQL, not in any great depth, but hopefully with enough information to get you started and whet your appetite for more.  Now we start to look into areas that aren't in the basic tutorials. Replication is the… more »

This month marked SkySQL's first anniversary.  It also marks my 6 months with the company, after being with MySQL AB (and then Sun and finally Oracle) for over 5 years. As good a time as any for a look back and some musings of the future. In late 2005 I… more »

In our last episode we looked at transactions and how to create them.  In this episode I'll look at some of the implications of transactions, especially in a web application. Transactions and Replication We will discuss replication in depth later in the… more »

We've now come a long way since our first steps at creating our online bookshop database. Now we need to start to think about how to sell the books and store details about the sales.  This is the time we need to start understanding database… more »