Archive for the 'dba' Category
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
this is a discussion from russian database forum SQL.RU that describes 2 common ways of storing serializable objects in RDBMS.
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
http://sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?tid=665075 Examples how to use PgQ queue in postgres
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Thursday, May 14th, 2009
describes recent forks, patch-sets and build of mysql. If you looking at this page deciding which fork of mysql will be better suited for your new project — maybe better to use PostgreSQL instead
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Saturday, March 21st, 2009
Josh Berkus explaing why hot-standby replication did not make it into postgresql 8.4
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
PITRTools is a set of wrapper scripts that provide warm standby functionality to PostgreSQL. The software is essentially two scripts, cmd_archiver.py and cmd_standby.py. The project is under the BSD license.
Posted in backup, data, database, dba, PITR, postgres, postgresql, python, recovery, replication | Comments Off | permalink
Friday, February 20th, 2009
tool for testing database performance, jdbc-based, supports a lot of different DBs
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle are compared using reasonable hardware setup and TPC-C like test with BenchmarkSQL tool (JDBC ) . This post will probably disappear soon as the author clearly violates oracle license that does not permit publishing benchma…
Posted in benchmark, database, dba, for:charlesnw, for:collidr, mysql, oracle, performance, postgresql, tpc-c | Comments Off | permalink
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
design pattern for friends/users, i.e. how to organize user-friend relationship. patters suggest that you need to make 2 tables, i.e freindship and friendship:user
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
sane notes about storing binary data in Postgres. Basically bytea is ASCII representaion of bynary data wich requires decoding / escaping (read: slow) and large objects a kind of ok, but not trigger-based replication compartable
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Posted in 2950, benchmark, database, dba, dell, for:collidr, hadrware, Linux, performance, postgresql, raid, raid_harware, sysadmin | Comments Off | permalink