Our first Data Masters meetup event last night was a huge success! A bunch of really great people showed up, and we had an awesome time talking about database technology and planning future events. From everybody’s input, we plan on adding events for data analytics, reporting tools, data modeling, and social graphing. Be sure to sign up [...]
Ever need to create a report against against a time series of data, for which not all dates in the range you need are represented? I’m sure that anybody charged with building data-centric reports have hit this from time to time. These are the times when you wish you had a cool date generator, such [...]
“Redis is an open source, BSD licensed, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server, since keys can contain strings, hashes, lists, sets, and stored sets.” - http://www.redis.io The Data Masters Meetup Group is hosting another event! At this event, we will take the first steps to mastering Redis! You will get to [...]
The Data Masters Meetup Group is officially kicked off! Our first event will be held Thursday, on August 22 at Planet Linux Caffé from 6:30pm to 8:30pm. This is just an introductory meetup to get the group kicked off, so there is no specific topic. But as the group grows we will definitely be providing [...]
As most people know, MySQL/MariaDB has a pluggable storage engine architecture. What this means is you can plug in a new storage engine and simply start using it. In fact, the two most common storage engines, InnoDB and MyISAM are also “plugged in” storage engines, and already come with MySQL. One oft-overlooked storage engine with [...]
I thought I would share an awesome find that was passed to me by Rich Theobald, one of the kick-ass DBAs at Miniclip.com, We had a pretty simple need, that once we started looking at it, turned not so simple: how do you get a MySQL replication slave’s “seconds behind master” value from a simple SQL [...]
