Thankfully my RSS reader has builtin-search capability, so I can quickly skim the full RSS feed from blogs.sun.com for keywords of interest. I found the following articles quite helpful:
- Setting up MySQL Cluster using Solaris Zones by Hashamkha Pathan walks through the steps involved of setting up a virtual MySQL Cluster setup on a single Solaris instance (for evaluation purposes only - this is probably not the best idea for a productive HA environment)
- Mixing SQL and shell commands in MySQL by Amit Saha explains how to write scripts that execute both SQL statements and unix shell commands using the MySQL command line client
- Improving filesort performance in MySQL by Neelakanth Nadgir provides some background information about MySQL's filesort operation that is being performed when records have to be sorted using ORDER BY.
- Ubuntu, PHP, NetBeans - part I by Petr Pisl is the first part of an article series that will explain how to develop PHP/MySQL applications using NetBeans on Ubuntu Linux. This part describes the basic installation of the required LAMP stack components.
If you are would like to learn more on how to develop on NetBeans with using a MySQL Server and how to create web apps that use MySQL as a backend, take a look at these two tutorials:
Over on the Novell Cool Solutions pages (which are powered by Drupal, by the way), I found this introduction on how to set up MySQL replication by Damian Myerscough. It walks you through the steps involved in setting up a classical master-slave replication setup.
