RT @Dries: Rackspace to become the new #MySQL AB? The #Drizzle team leaves #Sun and moves to #Rackspace

Sqoop, a database import tool developed at Cloudera that allows you to easily copy data between databases and HDFS

interesting tidbits on the friendfeed feed machine

HyperDB is a replacement for the standard WPDB class which adds the ability to use multiple databases. HyperDB supports partition of data as well as replication.

Using MySQLDump, make sure to use the '-r <filename>' option, instead of redirecting command-line output to a file ('> <filename>'). Redirection does not capture UTF characters properly, while the -r option does.