Category Archives: Oracle

Oracle Database-related

MySQL Replication Error 1159

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Administrator

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

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Administrator

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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Oracle Supports Hadoop

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Administrator

Block diagram of Oracle’s Big Data Appliance I can certainly see why Oracle database customers would want to know Oracle’s Hadoop support story. It remains to be seen how well Oracle can cooperate with the Apache Software Foundation and Open … Continue reading →

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Netflix and Cloud IT

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Administrator

I recently did some technical consulting for Netflix. I can say that they are really, truly committed to cloud IT, per their public pronouncements. Most large companies are still just dipping a toe in the water, so it’s significant that … Continue reading →

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OSCON 2011, Portland

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Administrator

Once again, the O’Reilly Open Source Conference (OSCON) was held in Portland, Oregon. It was held in parallel at the Oregon Convention Center with the O’Reilly OSdata and OSjava Conferences at the beginning of the week, and then later a … Continue reading →

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