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Listener Feedback:
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News:
Daylight Savings Time and how to check your system:
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There’s not much more time left to register for the MySQL Users Conference & Expo before the $200 early bird discount disappears!
http://www.mysqlconf.com

Learning Resource:

Check out the 2006 MySQL conference presentation slides by the speakers! http://mysqlconf.com/pub/w/45/presentations.html

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This week I spoke with Jay Pipes about the upcoming MySQL Conference, April 23-26 in Santa Clara, California, USA.
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Listener feedback:
MySQL will go public. Would you buy stock if you had the money? Why or why not?
Call the comment line at +1 617-674-2369 (US phone number)
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In this episode, I go over database normalization in general and explain 1st Normal Form (1NF) in depth.
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In this episode, the second part in a two-part series about Falcon, the new storage engine provided by MySQL, we talk about what happens when commit, going over and explaining the serial log and indexes.
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Finally, episode 5 is here. In this episode, the first part in a two-part series about Falcon, the new storage engine provided by MySQL, we talk about what happens when you query a Falcon table, going over and explaining MVCC and the record cache. Ne… Continue reading →

This week’s podcast is an interview with MySQL’s Stewart Smith, software engineer for MySQL Cluster. Straight from the warm southern hemisphere, Stewart talks about Cluster. Because we gabbed on and on for 19 minutes, we’ve stripped the format do… Continue reading →

This week’s feature talks about ACID compliance, what it is, and how MySQL achieves it.

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News
Download MySQL Turbo Manager Free Edition at: http://www.mentattech.com/themes/mentat/download.html

Wireless providers prefer MySQL over Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server over both:

http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=19…

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Episode 2 of OurSQL: The MySQL Database Podcast is here! It’s a bit late due to a computer crash and the fact that I sprained my ankle, but I think it’s worth waiting for. Particularly since this week’s feature is everyone’s favorite — perfor… Continue reading →

We have done a series of podcasts on backups that cover the topic much more thoroughly:
Backup Series #1: Backup Glossary
Backup Series #2: Backup Tools You Already Have (mysqlhotcopy and mysqldump)
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