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MySQL DBA, python edition

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Domas Mituzas

In the age of jetsetting and space travel and ORMs and such, MySQL DBAs are the least sophisticated ones nowadays, usually fighting terabytes or petabytes of data with army of shell scripts – as there’re no nice frameworks to explain … Continue reading →

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DBAs of all countries, unite!

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Domas Mituzas

I’m observing the process of most awesome SHOW commands being abolished, destroyed and some weird information_schema tables are introduced instead. Say, even though you can select configuration variables using @@syntax, you can’t do same for much more interesting to DBAs … Continue reading →

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