Updated: April 10th, 2009
Recently I read an article on the Six Revisions blog that discussed 10 seemingly simple improvements to the twitter interface. They included such things as nick autocomplete, mentions, groups, and more.
You could only dream about such twitter improvements… that is until you use the Troys Twitter script. Just perform the following steps and you will have the features I describe in this article. Here we…
MySQL Conference Liveblogging: Monitoring Tools (Wednesday 5:15PM)
Updated: April 18th, 2008
- Tom Hanlon of MySQL presents
- monitoring tool basics
- SHOW FULL PROCESSLIST
- SHOW GLOBAL STATUS
- SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES
- basic tools
- mysqladmin is provided with the server
- mysqladmin -i 10 extended status: will repeat the same command every 10 seconds. Pipe through grep "and smoke it" (bad pun, hah hah)
- -r: show only changed values
- MySQL Administrator
- mysqladmin is provided with the server
- cacti
- rrdtool based network
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MySQL Conference 2008
Updated: March 26th, 2008
April 14-17th is going to be an exciting time. Why? Because the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo is going to be held in Santa Clara, CA. Who would want to miss out on a chance to lurk around, let alone talk to, some of the smartest people in the MySQL world? Well, those who don't have at least $1000+, of course. A 3 day…


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