How to install and run WordPress with MariaDB
WordPress has evolved from a specialized blogging platform into today’s most widely used open source content management software (CMS), with […]
RHEL7 now with MariaDB
Congratulations to the entire team at Red Hat, for the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL7). The release […]
Setting Up a MariaDB Enterprise Cluster, Part 1: How to Set Up a Virtual Machine Template
Set up a 3-Node MariaDB Cluster with HA Proxy on VirtualBox This is a blog post series on setting up […]
MariaDB Galera Cluster training course released
We are proud to finally release a fully blown training course for MariaDB Galera Cluster. We’ve been working on this […]
A first second look at InnoDB spatial indexes in the MySQL 5.7 april lab release …
Warning: it turned out that I used a full debug build instead of a release one, and that seems to […]
MySQL/MariaDB autoconf macros
I’ve had my own set of autotool macros for building against different MySQL client and server APIs for quite a […]
Get rid of orphaned InnoDB temporary tables, the right way
If InnoDB or XtraDB in MySQL or MariaDB are interrupted while performing an ALTER TABLE, they’ll leave a temporary table […]
Nine Reasons Why Programming Is Easier Than Ever Before
The good old days of programming weren’t all that good. Mundane duties were hard: Finding good role models, checking the […]
MariaDB 10 vs MySQL 5.6 – A Feature Comparison Update
About a year ago I wrote a blog post comparing MariaDB 10 to MySQL 5.6. You can find that post […]
MariaDB 10 CONNECT Engine – A Better Way to Access External Data
Not long ago on a blog post Dean Ellis talked about the new MariaDB 10.0, describing some of the ‘little […]