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Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Kedar Vaijanapurkar; Restore requests are common and so are the restores of specific entities: a database, or one or more table(s). This has been discussed a lot and we have plenty of tools and solutions already available.In this blog post we will cover an interesting solution that I came across when I received a restoration request from a client with a specific scenario. The scenario? Well, the client was on a Windows server with 400GB of mysqldump and wanted to restore a table. As Linux players we already know of some tools and techniques to export ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Dave Stokes; Yesterday I was presenting on the MySQL Document Store and was asked if the _id fields created by the server as an InnoDB primary key is a UUID.  I knew that it was not a UUID but I had to hit the documentations (https://dev.mysql.com/doc/x-devapi-userguide/en/understanding-automatic-document-ids.html) to find out what the document ID really is -- a very interesting piece of information. The Details  If you are inserting a document lacking a _id key, the server generates a value. The _id is 32 bits of a unique prefix (4 bytes), a time stamp (8 bytes), and ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Geir Hoydalsvik; We proudly announce General Availability of MySQL 8.0. Download now! MySQL 8.0 is an extremely exciting new version of the world’s most popular open source database with improvements across the board. Some key enhancements include: SQL Window functions, Common Table Expressions, NOWAIT and SKIP LOCKED, Descending Indexes, Grouping, Regular Expressions, Character Sets, Cost Model, and Histograms. JSON Extended syntax, new functions, improved sorting, and partial updates. With JSON table functions you can use the SQL machinery for JSON data. GIS Geography support. Spatial Reference Systems (SRS), as well as SRS aware spatial datatypes,  spatial ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Today at the AWS Public Sector Summit in Brussels, we announced that AWS EdStart, a program that is designed to help startup educational technology (EdTech) companies build teaching and learning solutions on the AWS Cloud, is now available in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.AWS is committed to helping entrepreneurs build the next generation of online learning, analytics, and campus management solutions on the AWS Cloud. This new global focus for AWS EdStart will enable startup EdTech companies from around the world to move faster by providing AWS Promotional Credits, community ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. For a very long time, women working in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math were unwelcome and underappreciated. Take for example the story of Katherine Johnson and her colleagues, who made remarkable contributions to the early years of NASA’s space program. The world had not even heard of her name until two years ago, when the movie, Hidden Figures, hit the screens. Sadly, it is still a man’s world in the STEM fields, and women struggle every day to find a strong foothold in it ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Monyog; Although only available as a Release Candidate, MySQL 8 is already proving itself to be a huge leap forward in many regards. Error logging is no exception. The MySQL development team just announced that they have redesigned the error logging subsystem to use a new component architecture.The redesign will allow the filtering of log events, as well as the routing of error log output to multiple destinations, via the enabling of multiple sink components.  This will make it possible to send error log events to third-party systems for additional formatting and analysis. In today’s blog, ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Russell Jurney. Warp (source: Pixabay) For more business case studies, check out the Strata Business Summit at the Strata Data Conference in London, May 21-24, 2018. In order to conquer a market, you must first understand it. We often speak of markets in the abstract, as addressable segments of the economy, defining them by examples of companies and by comparisons to others engaged in similar activities. Sales and marketing leaders have richer internal models of markets they use to guide their organizations as they fight for their share of the markets they contest. In ... Read More

Feed: News & Blog – Logicworks. Author: Logicworks; Docker orchestration tools and serverless are getting a lot of hype — but what’s the best tool for your application, and how do you actually deploy them on AWS?Last week, our Sr. Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer Phil Christensen put on a fantastic webinar comparing containers and serverless on AWS. Below is a recap of the webinar. To watch the full replay, go here or watch below. Highlights of the Webinar: Intro to ContainersThe standard deployment model these days for any kind of application that you deploy on the cloud is changing ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; In 2018, businesses will spend $1.3 trillion on digital transformation projects. At the same time, 70% of these initiatives will not reach their stated goals. With over $900 billion in spending wasted, companies need to do better when it comes to digital transformation. One of the most important areas of improvement is teamwork. Businesses need to identify opportunities for better collaboration—and adopt technology that can enhance it. “Unfortunately, most organizations are siloed, with functional areas and business units struggling to communicate, coordinate, and collaborate in relation to transformation initiatives,” says Steven Zobell, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) charted their path to the cloud back in 2012 with the cloud directive. Since then, they have made strides in accelerating the adoption of cloud computing throughout the department. Critical to the success of cloud adoption is training the warfighter on how to use the new technology. By equipping military men and women with cloud computing capabilities and the confidence to take on new responsibilities, agencies invite fresh ideas, a place to test them, and the potential to solve complex issues affecting the environment in ... Read More