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Minion Queen

Good morning everyone!

Dashrender

Well this helped me understand why the Greece thing is so much worse than the China problem.

https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/07/china-and-greece-a-tale-of-two-crises/?utm_content=buffer39adf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Dashrender

New project for me.

@dafyre said:

So now that 6 and a half more hours have passed, and I almost overslept for work... what happened with Greece? Has the apocalypse come yet?

Don't know but the US is likely soon headed for this kind of stuff.

dafyre

What the heck is all that? Her royal highness' matched luggage?

dafyre

@thecreativeone91 Sad, but true. I gotta turn that into a button.

dafyre

@thecreativeone91

Dashrender

@dafyre said:

What the heck is all that? Her royal highness' matched luggage?

That's new Stormtrooper armor!

scottalanmiller

Doing an OwnCloud 8.1 upgrade on CentOS 7 right now.

scottalanmiller

Had a small MariaDB outage today. I have a suspicion that we ran out of memory because we never enabled swap on a rather lean box. Doh. Looking into that now.

scottalanmiller

Just had another amazing fish and chips burrito for lunch! SO GOOOOOOOD

scottalanmiller

Trying to get Mint 17.2 on VirtualBox 5 working smoothly on the enormous 27" Mac display.

MattSpeller

Going to the lake right after work for monster rainbows on wet flies and a swim

JaredBusch

Back in the states.
Riding the blue line from O'Hare to downtown. Then a short walk to union station and then a Metra ride back out to the suburbs capped by a 30 minute walk home from the station.

scottalanmiller

Building out my first Amazon RDS system.

WingCreative

@scottalanmiller said:

Building out my first Amazon RDS system.

I've been wanting to set up an RDS instance for when I finally get Sendy going on AWS...

Are you going single or multi availability zones? I really like the sound of a database with built-in failover, but I've read that it doesn't always trigger when the primary database fails for some people.

Also wishing they offered MariaDB as one of the options but what can you do.

scottalanmiller

@WingCreative said:

Also wishing they offered MariaDB as one of the options but what can you do.

Is there really much benefit? MariaDB support is really bad, so I would not want a MariaDB setup that I was paying for. If I'm supporting it myself, then it is fine. But once I'm going commercial, I would the support coming from Oracle.

WingCreative

@scottalanmiller said:

@WingCreative said:

Also wishing they offered MariaDB as one of the options but what can you do.

Is there really much benefit? MariaDB support is really bad, so I would not want a MariaDB setup that I was paying for. If I'm supporting it myself, then it is fine. But once I'm going commercial, I would the support coming from Oracle.

Probably not! I only have experience with simple MySQL deployments at the moment, where MariaDB has worked as a drop-in replacement without any issue and some performance gains. Haven't done anything with an Oracle DB myself yet but I have heard it's pretty much the best relational database out there if you're willing to pay for it.

scottalanmiller

@WingCreative said:

Probably not! I only have experience with simple MySQL deployments at the moment, where MariaDB has worked as a drop-in replacement without any issue and some performance gains. Haven't done anything with an Oracle DB myself yet but I have heard it's pretty much the best relational database out there if you're willing to pay for it.

Oracle DB is nothing special. If I am looking for a high end RDBMS, I would use PostgreSQL nearly always and Sybase or MS SQL Server for niche cases. Oracle DB I would only consider in cases where nothing else was offered as a compatibility option AND if PostgreSQL's Oracle drop in compatibility for some reason failed.

MySQL is Oracle's secondary database product and Berkeley DB their tertiary. If you have commercial MySQL it is Oracle supporting you. If you use MariaDB it is the little MariaDB group and their support is really bad. I've been stuck using them and they were a total failure - actually did more damage than they solved. And not cheap.

scottalanmiller

MySQL / MariaDB I use only when I need something that is only looking for one or the other. If I am on CentOS or whatever and MariaDB is what is included by default, great, I'll use that. I'm not going to the MariaDB group for support, I'm getting the support from Red Hat if I need it. But if I am getting a big, commercial MySQL / MariaDB deployment I want the expertise and reliability of Oracle's support staff. They are worth the money.