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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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Category Archives: MySQL
BIND and DHCP Open Day, Menlo Park
I went to ISC’s BIND and DHCP Open Day in Menlo Park. There was a good turnout, with about 30 outside attendees and about the same of ISC staff. 3 BIND developers from the Czech and Chinese registrars also attended, … Continue reading
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Humorous NoSQL Videos
NoSQL Better Than MySQL? Episode 1 – MongoDB Is Web Scale Hitler’s Hadoop and NoSQL Downfall Parody O’Reilly MySQL CE 2010: Brian Aker, “A Guide to No-SQL”
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MySQL SUPER Privilege: Just Say No
I wrote this post so that MySQL DBAs can link to it whenever end-users insist on application accounts (I usually use ‘prod’) having SUPER privilege. Here is a partial list of problems with MySQL application accounts having SUPER privilege: allows … Continue reading
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MySQL Replication Error 1159
Interesting spurious MySQL 5.1.57 replication error in an old production master-slave setup with correctly configured server-ids: mysql> show slave status\G [...] Last_IO_Errno: 1159 Last_IO_Error: The slave I/O thread stops because a fatal error is encountered when it try to get … Continue reading
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Silicon Valley Codecamp 2011
Silicon Valley Codecamp 2011 was held this weekend at Foothill College near San Jose. There were 209 sessions and 3,414 registered attendees. I did not attend, but have seen some of the talks at other conferences in the past year. … Continue reading
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