lazy link to pair's mirror of MySQL 5.1 downloads

"oursql is a new set of MySQL bindings for python 2.4+, including python 3.x. " ooh, a mysqldb competitor.

"ShardQuery is a PHP class which is intended to make working with a partitioned dataset easier. It offers an easy to use PHP class interface for querying the dataset. Also included is run_query.php, which is an example application for the ShardQuery class."

indeed

"Turn MySQL in to a document db!"

"SimpleStore provides a way to store schema-less, zlib-compressed Python pickles in MySQL."

"As larger and larger amount of memory become common (512GB is something you can fit into relatively commodity server this day) many customers select to build their application so all or most of their database (frequently Innodb) fits into memory."

Overview of the new profiler that became available in the 5.0.37

MySQL practical limits with respect to 32 and 64bit machines.

Official PR speak from Oracle. It does nicely point out that this means MySQL users can keep current with InnoDB without waiting for updates to MySQL itself.

I believe this is InnoDB's first major release since being acquired by Oracle.

Tim Hawkins of Yahoo! on scaling web services

another "php5+mysql on leopard" how to

mytop is a console-based (non-gui) tool for monitoring the threads and overall performance of a MySQL 3.22.x, 3.23.x, and 4.x server.

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