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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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Monthly Archives: April 2009
Using oprofile with the MySQL Server
Monty Taylor from MySQL Consulting gave a Percona Performance Conference talk on using oprofile, the linux kernel profiler, to diagnose MySQL server performance issues. Installing oprofile requires the oprofile package (yum install oprofile), and optionally /boot/vmlinux for kernel symbols. I … Continue reading
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MySQL Conference 2009
The MySQL Conference was, as usual for the past few years, at the Santa Clara Convention Center (home of the $14 bistro burger.) And once again, MySQL got bought by another company. Last year Sun, this year Oracle. I found … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Linux, MySQL, Open Source, Oracle, Perl, Tech, Toys
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