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03.23.04
MySQL Ready for Enterprise Database Reliability
Open-source database software maker MySQL AB plans to unveil next month an
enterprise-level capability that automatically shifts workloads to another
database server when one fails.
The software, MySQL Cluster, is scheduled to be introduced next month at the
Swedish company's user conference in Orlando, Fla., Zack Urlocker, VP of
marketing, said Monday. The feature is based on NDB Cluster, software
developed by telecommunications equipment maker L.M. Ericsson Telephone Co.
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Database Templates with MySQL
Once you've built several MySQL databases, you'll learn some shortcuts to
database design.
Many databases are very similar. When creating new databases, developers
often build the same basic tables with only slightly different names and
some adjustments to columns. Rather than starting from scratch when putting
together a new database, developers will sometimes copy tables from an
existing database, give them new names, and then make modifications. This
can be a big timesaver.
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MySQL database to get high-end feature
MySQL plans to announce a higher-end addition next month that will allow
more than one instance of its open-source database to take over if another
fails.
The software, MySQL Cluster, is based on software called NDB Cluster that
telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson developed, and then sold to
MySQL in October. MySQL plans to announce the new version at its user
conference from April 14 to 16, said Zack Urlocker, vice president of
marketing for the Swedish company.
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Open source database improvements grow
New open source databases users seem to blend the fervor of religious
converts with the hardheaded realism of IT professionals.
"I needed an inexpensive database that could handle millions of records and
generate [query] results in as short a time as possible," says Rich Allen,
voice/data traffic coordinator, at Matanuska Telephone, an independent telco
in Alaska.
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Advanced SQL Server Locking
I thought I knew SQL Server pretty well. I've been using the product for
more than 6 years now, and I like to know my tools from the inside out.
While teaching a SQL Server programming course, I noticed that the Microsoft
material presented a lock compatibility table. The same table is presented
at MSDN.
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MySQL Cluster prepares to ship
MySQL will ship MySQL Cluster, a high-availability version of its
open-source database for deployment across clusters of systems, next month.
The clustering package features the MySQL database coupled with a storage
engine originally developed by Ericsson for telcommunications applications.
The engine was acquired by MySQL in November.
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