Sun recently experienced a hail of criticism when the company hinted that some add-ons for the popular open source database, MySQL, might be available only for paid customers. Today Marten Mickos, former CEO at MySQL AB and now senior vice president of Sun’s database group, backed off the statement, saying that Sun has not made [...]

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Image from http://jeremy.zawodny.com/mysql/mytop/ You’ve probably used top to monitor running processes on a server. It’s tremendously handy when you’re wondering where all that RAM went. For web applications, the bottlenecks we deal with are more typically bandwidth and database issues. To keep an eye on a MySQL database, install mytop, a command-line tool that looks [...]

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So I’m learning all the time what I should, and shouldn’t be doing to make my little business grow. I’ve decided that while it may not be worth very much, I’ll share what I’ve learned little by little, maybe to help some of the other little guys out there. Chances are, if you’ve decided to [...]

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