Note to self: NOT a fan of fine nibs on my fountain pens. Only took me a few years to get one and a few days to accept it no matter how much I like the pen itself

/me breaks down her Cross fountain pen for cleaning and breaks out the JinHao fountain pen to use

Hm - wonder if they will delete this account because I no longer use it very much... hope not.

Happy #TransDayOfVisibility   to all our beautiful trans friends and neighbours.

Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

#TransDayOfVisibility

Just have to say - I <3 the MySQL Docs team. They don’t get enough recognition and #thanks for the awesome job they do everyday. #shoutout #awesome

A Happy Pi Day to all!

Did you know that INNODB STATUS contains the MySQL pid in ROW OPERATIONS for you to match up in the Linux top output? Especially handy with multiple MySQL instances on a single machine.

Found the new home for #phpc (PHP Community) with my nick registered. Been a while. /me sighs at the mess for freenode going on.

Does owning stock in a cannabis company make me a drug dealer? #hmm

learning the basic difference between MySQL plugins and MySQL components - dev.mysql.com/doc/dev/mysql-…

That is why I miss IRC for work

Thing I learned today: the existence of Performance_Schema.variables_info.variable_path If a variable is set by an option file - exactly which option file did it

Thing I learned yesterday: —gdb and —skip-stack-trace suppress creating a stack trace in the event of a MySQL server crash.

Looking for a good video teaching the basics of MySQL query tuning. Which queries to tune, indexing basics, and examples.
Any recommendations?

Every time I see a non-empty value in slave_skip_errors, I cringe like nails on a blackboard.

Been watching the covid-19 number for deaths. Have to admit, that the numbers are losing their meaning. To keep them in perspective, I need reference points. Current US deaths: ~54K. So between the number of US deaths for the Korea War and Vietnam war. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_St…

Transforming data to information - like in the maps on my last - is why I got into databases.

Maps for Covid-19 Florida: experience.arcgis.com/experience/96d…. The world: coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html #cooltech #gis