Are you interested in the FREE MySQL certification? Be an Oracle DBA first.

I have to say that Interent have made MySQL so successful. MySQL database is the most popular open source database used by hosting company. As you might already know that the world most popular blog software WordPress is running on MySQL database. Comparing with other relational databases such as IBM DB2, Oracle 11i and Microsoft MSSQL, MySQL is much lighter. However, with so many supporter and users, you can not ignore the population of MySQL. Now more and more companies go online and host cheap. MySQL is even popular than ever before.

With their new MySQL stored procedure and function support, it become more true enterprise ready database platform. I have been using MySQL for many years now. MySQL was one of my top choice for the project I did in my ex-career. It severed more than 3000 users for large law firm. It’s so capable and so easy to use.

So, if you are interested in becoming a certified MySQL database administrator, you can’t miss this free offer. See more detail from DBA Boot Camp: MySQL for the Oracle DBA. Who said there is no free lunch?

So what is requirement for attend the FREE Bootcamp?

Goal:

The goal is to provide sufficient training and knowledge transfer, to enable experienced Oracle DBAs to deploy and manage MySQL in a production environment.

Who should attend:

• Oracle DBAs who want to deploy and manage MySQL
• Oracle DBAs who want to become MySQL Certified DBAs
• Oracle DBAs who want to expand their career opportunities
• Oracle DBAs who want to meet and network with Oracle and MySQL DBAs

What attendees will learn:

• A MySQL Introduction for the Oracle DBA
• MySQL Architecture & Installation for the Oracle DBA
• MySQL Security for the Oracle DBA
• MySQL Object Management for the Oracle DBA
• MySQL Backup & Recovery for the Oracle DBA
• MySQL Performance Tuning for the Oracle DBA
• MySQL Scale Out for the Oracle DBA
• MySQL High Availability for the Oracle DBA
• MySQL Enterprise’s Monitoring & Advisory Services
• MySQL Future Product Roadmap

What attendees will receive:

• FREE! MySQL Certification Exam voucher ($200 value)
• FREE! MySQL Certification Guide ($70 value)

It’s limited to the first 100 per location. So if you are interested, you’d better hurry.

Network upgrades, FTP
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:04 am

Due to today’s outage (mt) engineers will be performing upgrades to several on our load balancers. These rolling upgrades may cause disruptions of FTP service especially when transferring large files, webmail may also be affected. HTTP and email services should not be affected by this maintenance, customers on other product lines are also unaffected.

We expect to have these upgrades done by no later than 1:00pm PDT at which time we will update this thread with any further news.

You can read more about their “System Incidents” blog here. It seems to me there are issues with their GS – Grid Services all the time since they starts it. With MySQL running on different shared server, there is chance to get bottle neck on connection to MySQL. You can search google blog and find many post related to their GS. So should I switch to other hosting company for my client?

Most of the Linux hosting company host their MySQL on the same server as “Localhost”, which avoids the network traffic. However, it has limited scalability. Compare with what my client was getting few weeks ago from other hosting company, MT is still standing solid. At least they do admit there was a problem and downtime, and post the message accordingly to their web site for people to see and making comments. You don’t see that often from other hosting company. Some of the hosting company don’t even bother to tell you there was a problem. They just wipe out your entire account and restore it from a week old backup.

Why do I so care about MediaTemple.net? No! I don’t care! What I care is to give my client the best service and ensure they are happy with what their web site brings to them. MediaTemple, please keeps up the good works and don’t let me down.

However, as far as I can tell that MySQL 4.0 is having some restriction on the fulltext search.

Restrictions

A few restrictions affect MySQL

indices. Some of the default behaviors of these restrictions can be changed in your my.cnf or using the

command.

• 1

  FULLTEXT

  indices are NOT supported in InnoDB tables.

• MySQL requires that you have at least three rows of data in your result set before it will return any results.
• By default, if a search term appears in more than 50% of the rows then MySQL will not return any results.
• By default, your search query must be at least four characters long and may not exceed 254 characters.
• MySQL has a default

  1

  stopwords

  file that has a list of common words (i.e.,

  1

  the

  ,

  1

  that

  ,

  1

  has

  ) which are not returned in your search. In other words, searching for

  1

  the

  will return zero rows.

• According to MySQL’s manual, the argument to

  1

  AGAINST()

  must be a constant string. In other words, you cannot search for values returned within the query.

select count(members_pages.pageid) as record_count
from members
inner join members_pages on members.memberid = members_pages.memberid
where members.status_access = 1
and members_pages.status_access = 1
and members_pages.status_viewable_by = 1
and (
MATCH(members_pages.page_name, members_pages.page_keywords, members_pages.page_desc, members_pages.page_url) AGAINST (‘” . trim(strtolower(addslashes($keywords))) . “‘ IN BOOLEAN MODE)
or lower(members_pages.page_url) like ‘%” . trim(strtolower(addslashes($keywords))) . “%’)”;