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Hi, I'm James Briggs, an Internet computer programmer/DBA in Silicon Valley. I've been programming for 20 years for companies like eBay, Cisco, Yahoo!, Apple, Amazon and startups.In my spare time I do Open Source programming and like flying airplanes, karate and studying Asian languages.
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Daily Archives: April 26, 2007
MySQL Conference 2007
The MySQL Conference was held again at the Santa Clara Convention Center. As always, it was a great conference, with so many good talks in parallel tracks that it made choosing difficult. Here’s a link to the slides. The Santa … Continue reading
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Google Releases MySQL Patches
At MySQLCamp, mention was made of a few Google internal patches to MySQL4 to improve replication and IO throughput on InnoDB (Mark Callaghan, ex-Oracle, did the InnoDB work). The good news is that Google has just released them. The license … Continue reading
Posted in Linux, MySQL, Open Source, Tech
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