We’ve released Percona Toolkit 2.0.3, with a couple of major improvements and many minor ones. You can download it, read the documentation, and get support for it. What’s new? You can read the changelog for the details, but here are the highlights: Brand new pt-diskstats, thanks to Brian Fraser. This tool is completely rewritten, and [...]

February is going to be a busy meetup month for me. In addition to speaking in Raleigh I will visit Charlotte to speak at Meetup out there on February 23rd. Last year I visited Charlotte meetup was in the great place and we had great food and great crowd of people showing up. I will [...]

As many may have noticed, PostgresOnline.com has been down for the past week or so and probably is still not reachable from many parts of the world since our DNS server was also taken down as a result of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attack instigated by an Activision Call of Duty Game exploit that turned thousands of Call of Duty game servers into Zombies launching an attack on us.

We have a small confession to make. One of the businesses we co-own is an e-Commerce site that sells condoms. You never know how people will react when you say that in mixed company so we only mention it in closer company. Some people are glad we are in a business protecting against venereal diseases or unwanted pregnancies and some feel strongly we are violating a mother nature creed of conduct. WowCondoms was the site that was under attack on a UDP port and we are not sure if it was a malicious intent or not since the root instigator has not been found yet. The attack was higher up from our servers so it knocked our ISP who in turn blamed us for their outage. We never saw the traffic.

The tragic thing is that it can happen to any site and does all the time. It really hit home when it happened to us.

Details of our fight are described here: WowCondoms plugs hole in Activision's Call of Duty Game Servers

Hey everyone,Another awesome turnout at our Intro to Graph Databases webinar last week. We had loads of questions throughout the session, and we thank all of you for attending and participating!Here are the questions captured in the Q&A section. If you don't see your question here, please be sure to join our Neo4j User Group, where our community will be sure to help you out. To model a graph

DELETE IGNORE suppresses errors and downgrades them as warnings, if you are not aware how IGNORE behaves on tables with FOREIGN KEYs, you could be in for a surprise. Let’s take a table with data as example, column c1 on table t2 references column c1 on table t1 – both columns have identical set of rows for [...]

I’ve improved the http://netprovider.cincura.net/ . It’s now returning version build from latest SVN sources (so it’s actually snapshot builds now). Again could be unstable, not a good idea to put it to production. PS: It’s reading the build from my internal CI server, that is really old and really not very powerful. Please try not to push [...]

Ruby driver and RoR adapter Rubyfb v0.6.2 released

Logikal Solutions is proud to announce “The Minimum You Need to Know About Qt and Databases” has been released in EPUB format as part of “The Minimum You Need to Know” book series. Currently it is available at Barnes & Nobel as well as Kobo. It should also be available shortly at the Sony eBook [...]

FBDataGuard was just updated to the version 2.7. Download it from your IBSurgeon Deploy Center account or get trial version from the product page. Please schedule upgrade of your production system (please do upgrade carefully and plan all your actions). Changes in version 2.7 include support for modern browsers in FBDataGuard web-console, fixed bugs and [...]

An attendee to Espen’s recent webinar asked how to check tables for corruption. This kind of ties into my recent post on InnoDB’s handling of corrupted pages, because the best way to check for corruption is with CHECK TABLES, but if a page is corrupt, InnoDB will crash the server to prevent access to the [...]

New Firebird case study from wobe-systems GmbH, German software development house for the graphics industry. “…A production database of 100 GB and more containing BLOBs is nothing unusual at our customers sites…” “.. Firebird SQL server is at the core of our system helping our customers swift and safely through their daily work. Equipped with [...]

FDB release 0.7.1 is out: This is mostly bugfix release. The main notable difference is that now FDB works on Windows (0.7.0 wasn’t) and is operational “enough” to power the Firebird QA tools. So the forthcoming Firebird 2.0.7 release (scheduled for February) will be tested using FDB. News via Pavel Cisar Google+ Page

Good Relationships, the Spring Data Neo4j Guide Book, is available now for download from InfoQ. Go get it and read all the details about becoming productive with Spring Data Neo4j. But first, allow me a few words. Like any of you, I'd generally rather be writing code than documentation.  Getting through an entire book would've been impossible without the help of many fine people both prodding

Jiri Cincura was recently interviewed for InfoQ article – Q&A with Jiri Cincura of the Firebird Database Project. We touched Firebird, ADO.NET, O/RMs, Entity Framework etc. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Update: The article seems to be retracted for the moment , Don’t panic we asked why and investigate the cause [...]

The flamerobin version 0.9.3 – revision 2212 is now in published in debian sid

The package is now in ubuntu oneiric ppa To install it use sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mapopa/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install flamerobin or if you have already installed sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

I’ll be presenting at MySQL Meetup in Raleigh,NC February 21,2012. The talk with be about Optimizing MySQL Configuration which I believe is a great topic for my first talk at this meetup group as it covers something every MySQL user has to deal with, also being something both beginner and advanced MySQL Users can learn [...]

The new driver fdb is branched in github for Python 3.x (work in progress). You can check the progress by following this thread on firebird-python list and here is another one.

Reaffirms Oracle's Commitment to MySQL

Hello Graphistas and Rubyists!Now Heroku has become a language polyglot platform , we’re happy to announce that we’re enhancing the NOSQL ecosystem for Heroku customers and users by releasing the Neo4j-Graph Database Add-On. The Neo4j-Graph Database Add-On became “public” this week, so it’s available to all registered beta-testers of the Heroku PAAS platform. This is the first step in our