Monday January 26, 2009

Connector/J 5.0 to 5.1 gotcha
I moved a dev environment a little while back, and one of the gotchas I hit was a minor change between MySQL Connector/J 5.0 and 5.1. The support for select x as y type syntax is not actually valid under the jdbc api, but its something I tend to use a lot in various places. In 5.1 its been disabled by default. Anyway the work around is quite easy, although as I was moving envs (revved netbeans, mysql, OpenSolaris, connector j, glassfish, jmaki and a bunch of other things at the same time, call it optimism) I checked god knows how many other things first. Just add

useOldAliasMetadataBehavior=true

to your jdbc connection string and select as to your hearts content.
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Thursday January 22, 2009

Irish Open Solaris Groups Meetup
Tim sent an announcement out yesterday to on the 18th IE-OSUG meeting, 7:30 PM @ The Vaults next Thursday Jan 29th.

For those interested in hearing about my adventures in mac book land, be it with OpenSolaris native on the mac or via Sun xVM Virtualbox I'll have the macbook along so you can take a look. You can of course pull me aside to talk about our OpenSolaris service & support offerings if so inclined, but its Thursday evening so it might cost you a beer.
(2009-01-22 05:11:46.0) Permalink

Saturday January 10, 2009

[crosspost] A bit of trad part something or other

Crosspost from my personal blog, but its worthwhile...

Now honestly not everyone is related to an album releasing trad musician, but one of my colleagues just pointed me at his sister Orla Harrington who has just released a new album, Melting Snow. Worth checking out over on myspace if you listen (or are interested in) Irish folk/trad music. Actually just give a listen even if your not.

On a similar note if you happen to be in New York this evening, a member of APAP and attending their conference my previously mentioned cousin Niamh Ni Charra is playing tonight. But if your reading this blog thats a kinda of unlikely possibility, but hey you never know.
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Sunday January 04, 2009

Tape still matters...

... and other tails. Back in the distant past I used to host a personal blog on journalspace, so I've watched the stories coming out about the loss of all of journalspace's [slashdot] user data[journalspace] with more than a passing interest. It has really brought home to me that no matter how cheap storage gets, and with the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems we are radically redefining storage economics (and allowing some Australians to vent their cricket frustrations at some jbods, just a theory mind...), you do sometimes need some form of offsite backup. For most businesses that is still tape.

Of course tape by itself is not a disaster recovery plan, and here at Sun we offer a whole range of Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Services to meet your needs, with specific services within our Managed Services portfolio to address storage, including remote back up.

As an aside I wrote a small script to migrate journalspace content at the time I moved blogs, its available on my personal site if someone wants to grab it. A quick look at Andrews entry on how to recover journalspace entries with google cache suggests it would be a pretty straight forward set of changes to get the script to drag data from google instead. ~
(2009-01-04 12:01:13.0) Permalink