RenFest, 2008

It was actually three weeks ago, but we made our yearly trip to Magnolio for the Texas Renaissance Festival. This year was a year of a few firsts. It was the first time Brandon and Amy went, the first time Corey and I camped (instead of staying in a hotel), …

Wall-E

For a fairly long time, I have found myself brutally critical of Disney. There’s multiple reasons behind it but the biggest, by far, is what I like to call The Disney Formula. Not sure what that is? All one needs to do is watch most popular Disney animated movies over …

Partitions, Day 2

I got some really awesome feedback from Giuseppe (the Data Charmer) in my preivous post and it gave me a few ideas I thought I would share. One of the really nice things he did in his article about partitioning was to test partitions with the ARCHIVE engine. His results …

New Vote Topic!

Now that the elections are over, the old vote topic didn’t have as much weight, so I thought I would change things back around to MySQL. Namely, what’s your favorite feature? As for the old topic, things were about what I expected: Who are you voting for this November? Obama …

Getting My Partitioning On

While it took some time to get things sorta out with building MySQL 5.1 with the right parameters to get partitioning support working, I finally was able to get a working install and had some time to play around with this new intriguing MySQL 5.1 feature hands on. The results …