Since around versions 5.1.40 and 5.4.3 CMake structure has changed in MySQL and the former instructions on how to build it with SphinxSE (aka Sphinx storage engine) are outdated. Compiling has become easier and requires fewer steps, for which I will provide a tutorial below. Read more »
When talking about Linux, most people really mean that-Linux-Kernel-with-userland-tools. And there are a lot of flavours of that as distrowatch shows. As being asked a lot what and why I use [it], here is the answer: Gentoo. And that’s why: Read more »
Last Thursday we’ve had a conference about innovativations in IT and systems design here in Hannover. And as its main organizer I held a rather long workshop and speech of about three hours about database (mis)use and which and for what purpose a certain DBMS or storage would fit. In case you missed it, here are the slides (in German). It is about: Read more »
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