I am very excited to that announce that Matei Zaharia and Pat McDonough from DataBricks will be speaking at the Seattle Spark Meetup and we’ve increased the room size to accommodate more people! Seattle Spark Meetup Kick Off with DataBricks They will come up and join us for pizzas and to talk about Apache Spark! I highly encourage you to join the Seattle Spark Meetup for this and other exciting sessions! Below is the abstract of their session as well as their biographies. Introduction to Apache Spark Apache Spark has quickly grown to be one of the most active projects in big data,…
Month: February 2014
Quick Tips on Restoring a MySQL Full InnobackupEx Backup
As I recently started using MySQL (with many years of SQL Server under my belt), here are some quick tips on restoring an InnobackupEx backup. There was a context switch for me but I’m enjoying the experience. Introduction There are many ways to backup / restore database (s) for MySQL but the mechanism I’m referring to here is Percona’s InnobackupEx 2.1 for MySQL. The instructions for this backup can be found at Preparing a Full Backup with innobackupex and Making a Full Backup. What’s great about this type of backup is that it backups all of the databases on the…