Planet MySQL

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posted by Stefan Hinz on Wed 27 Feb 2013 18:08 UTC
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(edit) mysql, sun

As MySQL is thriving and growing, we're looking for an experienced technical writer located in Europe or North America to join the MySQL documentation team.

For this job, we need the best and most dedicated people around. You will be part of a geographically distributed documentation team responsible for the technical documentation of all MySQL products. Team members are expected to work independently, requiring discipline and excellent time-management skills as well as the technical facilities to communicate across the Internet.

Candidates should be prepared to work intensively with our engineers and support personnel. The overall team is highly distributed across different geographies and time zones. Our source format is DocBook XML. We're not just writing

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On the clarity of licensing

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posted by Stewart Smith on Thu 03 Jan 2013 01:38 UTC
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(edit) mysql, code, sun, drizzle

Being clear in licensing is a great benefit to users. I’m quite proud that with Drizzle we got to a really simple situation:

server is GPLv2
client libraries are BSD licensed and are fresh implementations

We had the complete okay from Sun to have libdrizzle be BSD licensed and for us to work on that.

MySQL tech writer position on Oracle jobs site

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posted by Stefan Hinz on Tue 23 Oct 2012 16:22 UTC
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(edit) mysql, sun

Just in case you missed this, last week I announced that my team is looking for an experienced technical writer. Now the job offer has gone live on the Oracle website. Have a look! That's the EMEA job site, but the position is actually available for Europe or North America. The job offer should appear on the American site soon, too.

If you want to join a great team, or if you know someone suitable who does, don't hesitate to contact me!

MySQL documentation writer wanted

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posted by Stefan Hinz on Tue 16 Oct 2012 17:04 UTC
Tags:

(edit) mysql, sun

As MySQL is thriving and growing, we're looking for an experienced technical writer located in Europe or North America to join the MySQL documentation team.

For this job, we need the best and most dedicated people around. You will be part of a geographically distributed documentation team responsible for the technical documentation of all MySQL products. Team members are expected to work independently, requiring discipline and excellent time-management skills as well as the technical facilities to communicate across the Internet.

Candidates should be prepared to work intensively with our engineers and support personnel. The overall team is highly distributed across different geographies and time zones. Our source format is DocBook XML. We're not just writing documentation, but also handling publication. This means you should be familiar with DocBook, and

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MySQL Curriculum Developer Wanted

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posted by Stefan Hinz on Wed 13 Jun 2012 11:38 UTC
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(edit) mysql, sun, curriculum

If you want to be part of the team that creates the official Oracle training on MySQL and meet the following criteria ...

Experience of course design
Experience with databases such as MySQL
Fluent in English - written and spoken
Keen to keep on learning

... then this is the opportunity for you! Learn more about our open position for MySQL Curriculum Developer here.

ZFS: could have been the future of UNIX Filesystems

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posted by Stewart Smith on Mon 28 May 2012 02:19 UTC
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(edit) Windows, linux-kernel, MacOSX, sun, zfs, btrfs

There was a point a few years ago where Sun could have had the next generation UNIX filesystem. It was in Solaris (and people were excited), there was a port to MacOS X (that was quite exciting for people) and there was a couple of ways to run it on linux (and people were excited). So… instead of the fractured landscape of ext3, HFS+ and (the various variations of) UFS we could have had one file system that was common between all of the commonly used UNIX-like variants. Think of being able to use a file system on a removable drive that isn’t FAT and being able to take it from machine to machine (well… Windows would be a problem, but it always is).

There was some really great work done in OpenSolaris with integration between the

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posted by Robert Hodges on Sat 14 Apr 2012 21:04 UTC
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(edit) mysql, Oracle, sun, IT Industry, mariadb

The MySQL UC this past week was the best in years. Percona did an outstanding job of organizing the main Percona Live event that ran Tuesday through Thursday. About 1000 people attended, which is up from the 800 or so at the O'Reilly-run conference in 2011. There were also excellent follow-on events on Friday for MariaDB/SkySQL, Drizzle, and Sphinx.

What made this conference different was the renewed energy around MySQL and the number of companies using it.

Big web properties like Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Craigslist continue to anchor the MySQL

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Linux Documentation Writer Wanted!

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posted by Stefan Hinz on Thu 09 Feb 2012 18:06 UTC
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(edit) mysql, docbook, Linux, xml, sun, documentation, Tech, svn, writer

The Oracle Linux and Virtualization Documentation Team is seeking an experienced Technical Writer
with a focus on writing documentation for the Oracle Linux product. (The MySQL Documentation Team is part of that group as well.)

Applicants should be located in either Ireland, the UK, Sweden, Norway,

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Linux Documentation Writer Wanted!

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posted by Stefan Hinz on Thu 09 Feb 2012 18:06 UTC
Tags:

(edit) mysql, docbook, Linux, xml, sun, documentation, Tech, svn, writer

The Oracle Linux and Virtualization Documentation Team is seeking an experienced Technical Writer
with a focus on writing documentation for the Oracle Linux product. (The MySQL Documentation Team is part of that group as well.)

Applicants should be located in either Ireland, the UK, Sweden, Norway,

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posted by Sun Partner Technology on Wed 18 Jan 2012 01:34 UTC
Tags:

(edit) mysql, sun, solaris, 5.0, 5.1, download, 11, available, certified

The installation through the Solaris repository is as simple as typing:

$ pkg install mysql-50

to obtain MySQL 5.0.91 (status Jan 18, 2012) or click on this link to launch the interactive installer.

$ pkg install mysql-51

to obtain MySQL 5.1.37 (status Jan. 18, 2012) or click on this link to launch the interactive installer.

SAP Netweaver 7.0, ERP 6.0, CRM 5.0, CRM 2007, SCM 5.0, SCM 5.1, SRM 5.0 are support for ABAP stack on Solaris 11

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posted by Sun Partner Technology on Fri 23 Dec 2011 09:06 UTC
Tags:

(edit) sap, sun, solaris, Kernel, netweaver, 11, abap

using one of the two databases

Oracle 11.2.0.3
MaxDB 7.8.2.26

with SAP Kernel 7.20_ext are supported on Solaris 11. The details are documented in the SAP note 1643799 (access for SAP customers only).

MySQL at the core of commercial open source

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posted by The 451 Group on Mon 26 Sep 2011 15:09 UTC
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(edit) mysql, Oracle, software, Linux, sun, Licensing, opensource, 451 group, 451caostheory, 451group, caostheory, matt aslett, mattaslett, matthew aslett, matthewaslett, open-source, The 451 Group, the451group, MySQL Enterprise, Open-Core

Oracle last week quietely announced the addition of new extended capabilities in MySQL Enterprise Edition, confirming the adoption of the open core licensing strategy, as we reported last November.

The news was both welcomed and derided. Rather than re-hashing previous arguments about open core licensing, what interests me more about the move is how it illustrates the different strategies adopted by Sun and Oracle for driving revenue from MySQL, and how a single project can be used to describe most of the major strategies from

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Various Anniversaries

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posted by Open Query on Tue 13 Sep 2011 02:33 UTC
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(edit) mysql, Uncategorized, sun, Pythian, bluehackers, upstarta, anniversary, luv

This week, ten years ago, I was in London for MySQL AB‘s first “train the trainer” course, also meeting (for the first time) my first boss at MySQL Kaj. I’d been hired mid August as employee#25, also doing training but actually primarily as tech-writer for the MySQL documentation (taking over from Jeremy Cole, and essentially I was the documentation team for quite some time

. So from this you can deduce that yes, I was hired without meeting either Kaj or anyone in-person! I don’t think we even had a phone call, only email. Oh the days [Read more...]

Wikileaks Cable Offers New Insights Into Oracle-Sun Deal | PCWorld Business Center

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posted by Open Query on Wed 31 Aug 2011 02:59 UTC
Tags:

(edit) mysql, Oracle, Uncategorized, sun, pcworld, wikileaks

WikiLeaks Cable Offers New Insights into Oracle-Sun Deal (PC World)

Nothing too new or shocking in there, but the cable does offer some interesting insights.

Hiring a MySQL Curriculum Developer

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posted by Stefan Hinz on Fri 12 Aug 2011 04:24 UTC
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(edit) mysql, sun

My colleague Antoinette is hiring a MySQL Curriculum Developer. To raise awareness, here's her blog post again:

Looking to join Oracle’s MySQL team? Our training team is hiring a MySQL curriculum developer!

You can find the job description and apply here.

While the job description refers to Dublin as location, applicants can actually be based pretty much anywhere. Your curriculum development/design experience, database & MySQL expertise and proficiency in English will matter most than location.

If you have experience in designing and developing training courses, and are passionate about databases in general and MySQL in particular, we look forward to hearing from you!

Hiring a MySQL Curriculum Developer

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posted by Stefan Hinz on Fri 12 Aug 2011 04:24 UTC
Tags:

(edit) mysql, sun

My colleague Antoinette is hiring a MySQL Curriculum Developer. To raise awareness, here's her blog post again:

Looking to join Oracle’s MySQL team? Our training team is hiring a MySQL curriculum developer!

You can find the job description and apply here.

While the job description refers to Dublin as location, applicants can actually be based pretty much anywhere. Your curriculum development/design experience, database & MySQL expertise and proficiency in English will matter most than location.

If you have experience in designing and developing training courses, and are passionate about databases in general and MySQL in particular, we look forward to hearing from you!

Tech Writer Wanted for MySQL Workbench & Connectors

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posted by Stefan Hinz on Wed 25 May 2011 01:12 UTC
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(edit) mysql, sun, connectors, job, Workbench, docs

The MySQL Documentation Team is looking for a senior technical writer. Main areas to cover are MySQL Workbench and MySQL Connectors. The position is for EMEA.

Candidates should be prepared to work intensively with our developers and support organization when writing documentation. Being a distributed team, we meet mostly on IRC and coordinate our work through email and versioning systems such as Subversion. The base format we're using is DocBook XML, and we're not just writing but also processing and publishing all our documentation ourselves.

This means you

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posted by Stefan Hinz on Wed 25 May 2011 01:12 UTC
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(edit) mysql, sun, connectors, job, Workbench, docs

The MySQL Documentation Team is looking for a senior technical writer. Main areas to cover are MySQL Workbench and MySQL Connectors. The position is for EMEA.

Candidates should be prepared to work intensively with our developers and support organization when writing documentation. Being a distributed team, we meet mostly on IRC and coordinate our work through email and versioning systems such as Subversion. The base format we're using is DocBook XML, and we're not just writing but also processing and publishing all our documentation ourselves.

This means you

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InnoDB Recovery forces

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posted by Sveta Smirnova of team blog MySQL Support Team on Thu 28 Apr 2011 10:53 UTC
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(edit) mysql, sun

I just answered in yet another bug report where user experiences problem because OS crash damaged InnoDB tablespace. I wonder why users don't use InnoDB recovery. Looks like I need to create an entry in Domas-style:

IF YOUR TABLESPACE

IS CORRUPTED

TRY

FORCING INNODB RECOVERY

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/forcing-innodb-recovery.html

Warning and error information in stored proceures

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posted by Sveta Smirnova of team blog MySQL Support Team on Thu 28 Apr 2011 10:27 UTC
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(edit) mysql, sun

I got this question second time this week, so I think it is worth writing a blog post about this topic.
Question was "Why I get error in EVENT which calls a STORED PROCEDURE which already has HANDLER?"
This changed in version 5.5 after fix of Bug #36185, Bug #5889, Bug #9857 and Bug #23032. Explanation is in this commit:

  The problem was in the way warnings/errors during stored routine execution

      were handled. Prior to this patch the logic was as follows:      

        - when a warning/an error happens: if we're executing a stored routine,

          and there is a handler for that warning/error, remember the handler,

          ignore the warning/error and continue execution.      

        - after a stored routine instruction is executed: check

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InnoDB Recovery forces

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posted by Sveta Smirnova of team blog MySQL Support Team on Thu 28 Apr 2011 08:53 UTC
Tags:

(edit) mysql, sun

I just answered in yet another bug report where user experiences problem because OS crash damaged InnoDB tablespace. I wonder why users don't use InnoDB recovery. Looks like I need to create an entry in Domas-style:

IF YOUR TABLESPACE

IS CORRUPTED

TRY

FORCING INNODB RECOVERY

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/forcing-innodb-recovery.html

Warning and error information in stored procedures

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posted by Sveta Smirnova of team blog MySQL Support Team on Thu 28 Apr 2011 08:27 UTC
Tags:

(edit) mysql, sun

I got this question second time this week, so I think it is worth writing a blog post about this topic.
Question was "Why I get error in EVENT which calls a STORED PROCEDURE which already has HANDLER?"
This changed in version 5.5 after fix of Bug #36185, Bug #5889, Bug #9857 and Bug #23032. Explanation is in this commit:

  The problem was in the way warnings/errors during stored routine execution

      were handled. Prior to this patch the logic was as follows:      

        - when a warning/an error happens: if we're executing a stored routine,

          and there is a handler for that warning/error, remember the handler,

          ignore the warning/error and continue execution.      

        - after a stored routine instruction is executed:

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posted by Sveta Smirnova of team blog MySQL Support Team on Wed 20 Apr 2011 17:08 UTC
Tags:

(edit) mysql, sun

This year I was speaking at Collaborate 11 about actions one need to perform when find her SQL application behaves wrongly.

New thing which was not presented in my earlier notes is simple how-to of how to deal with replication errors. You can find this in second presentation.

Slides are here: part 1 and part 2.

I also created PDF diagram which can be print and used as visual aid for cases when you meet an error. You can download it here or at the Conference website here (see file for

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posted by Sveta Smirnova of team blog MySQL Support Team on Wed 20 Apr 2011 15:08 UTC
Tags:

(edit) mysql, sun

This year I was speaking at Collaborate 11 about actions one need to perform when find her SQL application behaves wrongly.

New thing which was not presented in my earlier notes is simple how-to of how to deal with replication errors. You can find this in second presentation.

Slides are here: part 1 and part 2.

I also created PDF diagram which can be print and used as visual aid for cases when you meet an error. You can download it here or at the Conference website here (see file

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posted by The 451 Group on Mon 18 Apr 2011 13:56 UTC
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(edit) Oracle, software, Linux, sun, opensource, 451 group, 451caostheory, 451group, caostheory, matt aslett, mattaslett, matthew aslett, matthewaslett, open-source, The 451 Group, the451group, libreoffice, openoffice.org. simon phipps, the document foundation

Oracle announced on Friday that it is to discontinue its commercial interest in the OpenOffice.org project, prompting a barrage of criticism from the open source faithful with regards to its approach to the open source applications project, and community in general.

The company was accused of being community-hostile, for example, and comparisons were also made to Colonel Gadhafi, while a translation of the press release into “plain English” apparently shed new light on the announcement.

In truth though, the language used in

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Life at Oracle

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posted by Allan Packer on Sun 27 Mar 2011 05:35 UTC
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(edit) sun

It's now been 12 months since Oracle absorbed Sun. A lot has happened in that time, and the good news is that Sun's technology has a new lease on life. Reviewing my blog entries over the last 2 or 3 years, most of them were focussed on MySQL and T-series systems. Lots of good things are happening with both product lines.

As for me, I've been working on SPARC Supercluster. More on this topic later... ;-)

Life at Oracle

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posted by Allan Packer on Sat 26 Mar 2011 22:35 UTC
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(edit) sun

It's now been 12 months since Oracle absorbed Sun. A lot has happened in that time, and the good news is that Sun's technology has a new lease on life. Reviewing my blog entries over the last 2 or 3 years, most of them were focussed on MySQL and T-series systems. Lots of good things are happening with both product lines.

As for me, I've been working on SPARC Supercluster. More on this topic later... ;-)

Life at Oracle

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posted by Allan Packer on Sat 26 Mar 2011 22:35 UTC
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(edit) sun

It's now been 12 months since Oracle absorbed Sun. A lot has happened in that time, and the good news is that Sun's technology has a new lease on life. Reviewing my blog entries over the last 2 or 3 years, most of them were focussed on MySQL and T-series systems. Lots of good things are happening with both product lines.

As for me, I've been working on SPARC Supercluster. More on this topic later... ;-)

Spring saving time: watch your TIMESTAMPs

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posted by Sveta Smirnova of team blog MySQL Support Team on Wed 23 Mar 2011 01:28 UTC
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(edit) mysql, sun

Every March we have a lot of bug reports and support issues about Daylight Saving Time changes.

General rule here is to remember 1 hour at March, 27 night will be missed in most of European countries: for example in Moscow after 01:59:59 next time will be 03:00:00. And yes, I am too late for America =)

MySQL handles such timestamps properly, therefore expect no such time and date will be inserted in STRICT mode and next valid date will be inserted for not existent time in forgiving mode. For Moscow '2011-03-27 03:00:00' will be inserted if you try to insert timestamps in '2011-03-27 02:00:01' - '2011-03-27 02:59:59' range.

You can see how Europe switch to DST at http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/europe-starts-dst-2011.html Please note some

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posted by Sveta Smirnova of team blog MySQL Support Team on Tue 22 Mar 2011 23:28 UTC
Tags:

(edit) mysql, sun

Every March we have a lot of bug reports and support issues about Daylight Saving Time changes.

General rule here is to remember 1 hour at March, 27 night will be missed in most of European countries: for example in Moscow after 01:59:59 next time will be 03:00:00. And yes, I am too late for America =)

MySQL handles such timestamps properly, therefore expect no such time and date will be inserted in STRICT mode and next valid date will be inserted for not existent time in forgiving mode. For Moscow '2011-03-27 03:00:00' will be inserted if you try to insert timestamps in '2011-03-27 02:00:01' - '2011-03-27 02:59:59' range.

You can see how Europe switch to DST at http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/europe-starts-dst-2011.html Please note some

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