In my previous post I introduced materialized view concepts. As a reminder, the first post covered the following topics: What is a materialized view(MV)? It explained that an MV can pre-compute joins and may aggregate and summarize data. Using the aggregated data can significantly improve query response times compared to accessing the non-aggregated data. Keeping [...] [...more]
Way back in 2008 (which is a long time ago in Drizzle’s history) Zak Greant created a logo for the Drizzle project (as seen above). For some reason which has been lost through the ages we switched from this to using the rain cloud logo which was part of the Tango project. After a lot [...] [...more]
If you read my post on Drizzle transaction message limits, you know that it is possible to have multiple Transaction protobuf messages (segments) for a single database transaction. This was necessary to keep the Google protobuf messages from growing too large (there is a maximum limit on message size). Before my most recent change, you [...] [...more]
just a quick way to show you how to change the icon size on your desktop universally without having to use “stretch icon”. [...more]
I discuss the changes in Vistas licencing scheme that may have a serious effect on the hobbyist. I also talk about Ubuntu, and explain how to get free professionally minted disks for the asking. [...more]
