Archive for July, 2009

DBJ: Five More Dials To Turn

In this month’s article over at Database Journal  we discuss more areas to tune your initial MySQL database setup including InnoDB & MyISAM buffers, hit ratios, index usage and full table scans, security, and logs.  With this second article in a two part series we complete our coverage of basic tuning of a MySQL database.

MySQL: Five More Dials To Turn

Open Insights 57 – Logic Alone?

In this month’s issue we discuss assessing people, and how we determine qualification.  In particular we look at skills and compare the to immeasurables like drive, loyalty, and fortitude as factors which are often more difficult to measure, but perhaps more crucial to success.

Open Insights 57 – Logic Alone?