IT Resource » Developer Tools

MySQL Query Analyzer Tool

Dave W — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:10:48 +0000

MySQL have announced a new service known as Query Analyser.

The tool will allow administrators and developers to review SQL for possible errors or problems which could harm query performance, an area of functionality which has been noticeable by it’s absence up until now.

Early tests on the system have reportedly seen considerable performance increases among beta testers,. A MySQL spokesman said “”Internally we have seen a 30 per cent improvement. It helps people find problematic code in minutes, and eliminates [that] code during the development process”.

In order to use the new tool, customers will need to have a Gold or higher level subscription to MySQL, although it will come at no extra cost. Hopefully it will just be a matter of time before service availability drips down to the general user population.

Sybase and YellowFin set up a tasty alliance

Dave W — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:15:20 +0000

Sybase has teamed up with Australian Business Intelligence (BI) provider Yellowfin to package up the Sybase IQ Data Warehousing tool with YellowFin’s Presentation layer & User Interface.

Sybase IQ is a database product optimised for fast analytics and reporting (using a column-based architecture), while the Yellowfin products will provide a web-based Reporting and Delivery capability with easy-to-use dashboards and charting tools.

The alliance already has a live customer in New Zealand based Paymark, and is actively looking to promote the packaged solution in Australia, NZ, Japan, India and China.

Yellowfin are at: http://www.yellowfin.com.au

Sybase can be found at: http://www.sybase.com.au

Gizmo’s tech support site

Dave W — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 09:29:39 +0000

Quick post to tell you about a very useful site (recently ‘wiki-fied’ covering free software for business, development and home use. There seems to be a lot of useful stuff in there and it’s pretty active as well…well worth a look:

It can be found here – Gizmo’s Tech Support Site

CakePHP

Dave W — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:48:32 +0000

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.

You can get CakePHP here!