Read the original article at Oracle DBAs… You Know You Want MySQL!

If you’re an Oracle DBA or developer and considering migrating an application over to MySQL you probably have a lot of questions. Here’s a five minute summary of what you should know. Looking to hire a top flight MySQL DBA? Check out our MySQL interview guide. What is truly delicious o a command line that’s [...]

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1. Migrating MySQL to Oracle Guide
2. MySQL Cluster In The Cloud – Managers Guide
3. Oracle to MySQL Migration Considerations
4. Migrating MySQL to Oracle
5. Oracle to MySQL – prepare to bushwhack through the open source jungle

Read the original article at Oracle Announces Paid MySQL Add-ons

 Oracle starts charging for MySQL Add-ons Exciting news, Oracle just announced commercial MySQL extensions that they’ll be offering paid extensions to the core MySQL free product. To be sure, this has raised waves of concern among the community, but on the whole I suspect it will be a good thing for MySQL.  This brings more commercial [...]

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1. Migrating MySQL to Oracle Guide
2. Oracle to MySQL Migration Considerations
3. Migrating MySQL to Oracle
4. Emergency Oracle Support
5. Oracle Expert – New York City

Read the original article at 3 Biggest MySQL Migration Surprises

3 ways your MySQL migration project can shake you up Once a development or operations team gets over the hurdle of open-source, and start to feel comfortable with the way software works outside of the enterprise world, they will likely start to settle in and feel comfortable.  Best not to get too cushy though for [...]

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1. Migration to MySQL – What is it and why is it important?
2. 7 Ways to Troubleshoot MySQL
3. MySQL DBA Interview Questions
4. 5 Ways to Boost MySQL Scalability
5. Oracle to MySQL Migration Considerations

Read the original article at The New Commodity Hardware Craze aka Cloud Computing

Does anyone remember 15 years ago when the dot-com boom was just starting?  A lot of companies were running on Sun.  Sun was the best hardware you could buy for the price.  It was reliable and a lot of engineers had experience with the operating system, SunOS a flavor of Unix. Yet suddenly companies were [...]

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1. Cloud Computing – What is it and why is it important?
2. Migrating to the Cloud – Why and why not?
3. 5 Steps to Cloud Computing
4. Cloud Computing – Disciplined Deployments
5. Cloud Computing Use Cases

Read the original article at 7 Ways to Troubleshoot MySQL

MySQL databases are great work horses of the internet.  They back tons of modern websites, from blogs and checkout carts, to huge sites like Facebook.  But these technologies don’t run themselves.  When you’re faced with a system that is slowing down, you’ll need the right tools to diagnose and troubleshoot the problem.  MySQL has a [...]

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1. 5 Ways to Boost MySQL Scalability
2. Semi-Synchronous Replication – What is it and why is it important?
3. Migration to MySQL – What is it and why is it important?
4. Database Replication – What is it and why is it important?
5. Extract Transform & Load – What is it and why is it important?

Read the original article at Migration to MySQL – What is it and why is it important?

MySQL is a relational database that backs many internet websites and enterprise applications.  Like all enterprise software, it has a whole complement of features which are well documented, such as data types, storage engines, transactional behaviors and so forth.  It also has a set of processes, many of which involve how software operates on Linux [...]

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1. Database Migration – What is it and why is it important?
2. Oracle to MySQL Migration Considerations
3. Query Profiling – What is it and why is it important?
4. Migrating MySQL to Oracle Guide
5. Big Data – What is it and why is it important?

Read the original article at Database Migration – What is it and why is it important?

Migration in the context of enterprise and web-based applications means moving from one platform to another.  Database Migrations are particularly complicated as you have all the challenges of changing your software platform, where some old features are missing, or behave differently and some new features are available and you’d like to take advantage of those. [...]

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1. Oracle to MySQL Migration Considerations

Read the original article at Migrating MySQL to Oracle

This article is from 2006.  MySQL has come a long way since then. MySQL 5.5 is very robust and feature rich, matching Oracle in many different areas including datatypes, stored procedures and functions, high availability solutions, ACID compliance and MVCC, hotbackups, cold backups and dumps, full text and other index options, materialized views and much [...]

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