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The approvals are coming. I will be speaking at the MySQL Users Conference 2009. Using the event scheduler. The friendly behind-the-scenes helper. My co-speaker will be none other than Andrey Hristov, the designer and implementer of the Event scheduler, one of the main features of MySQL 5.1. |
Dec
09
2008
Dec
08
2008
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Enough of one-sided stories. Let's see a different angle of MySQL 5.1. First, let me thank my colleague Chris Powers for taking a stand in defense of the management. But saying "everyone does so" is not a good explanation. The truth is much more complex and requires some narrative. |
MySQL 5.1 didn't start on the right foot. The effort to produce its features was underestimated, mostly because, at the time when it was designed, the company was still unearthing the architectural bugs that were haunting MySQL 5.0.
MySQL 5.0 was GA in October 2005. One month later, MySQL 5.1 started its alpha stage, while a rain of bugs fell …
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Dec
07
2008
I have just started a blog in Italian. Although Italian is my mother tongue, most of my technical writing is in English. Since my tasks are more widespread than a single country, it was easier and simpler to write in English straight away.
After Sun acquisition, the MySQL presence in Italy is growing, and then it makes sense to employ my birth speaking abilities to spread the word in my country.
Today, thanks to a convoluted introduction, set in motion by Kaj and Google Translate, I started contributing to Giuseppe Guerrasio's blog, pettinix.org, with a post on …
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Dec
01
2008
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I talked several times about partitioning usability. In my many tests of
partitioning I found myself in need of generating list of
partitions for a given range. I made the Partition Helper to scratch this particular itch, i.e. making partitions reasonably quickly and without thinking too much. |
The Partition Helper is a Perl script that converts some …
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Dec
01
2008
I saw Monty's latest rant and I told myself "here we
go again." I blogged before about deaf developers, and
here's another symptom of the same disease.
This is another case of a developer, a brilliant one, mind you,
one of the brightest in the open source arena, but a developer
nonetheless, who has a non-user oriented mindset and is
inflicting his view on the users.
I will stay clear of the reasons. Why the co-founder of MySQL
decides to spoil the party on release day and ambushes his
colleagues with a truckload of blame is beyond my
understanding.
What concerns me is the patronizing plea that Monty uses against
the users. "Don't use MySQL 5.1"? Really? What about the ones who
have already been using it for …
Nov
30
2008
With all due respect to Monty (and I mean that — much respect is due), I have some serious issues with his portrayal of the 5.1 release. I hate to make my first entry on Planet MySQL about a controversy, but he encouraged people to blog about their experience with 5.1, so that’s what I’ll do here.
Overall Quality
As a long time user, I am very confident that the quality of 5.1 GA far exceeds that of the initial 5.0 GA release (5.0.15). In fact, I would go further and suggest that the MySQL organization has if anything been too conservative about declaring 5.1 GA.
It’s obviously true that there are still many bugs open. However no software is bug free, especially not those with codebase as large as MySQL. So the question is not if they are bug free, but are the …
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Nov
27
2008
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MySQL, the most popular open source database, releases today, November 27, 2008, its version 5.1 GA (General Availability). Downloads are available for all operating systems. Version 5.1 introduces several enhancements to the already rich set of features. Most notable are partitioning, row based replication, the event scheduler, a new … |
Nov
27
2008
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MySQL 5.1 finally RELEASED! MySQL 5.1 GA is now available for download. The time has come. MySQL 5.1 is ready for production use. In case you weren't paying attention while it it was still under development, here's what you get:
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Nov
25
2008
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If you hear a distant rumble in the air, it could be either Dups testing his new mountaineering gear, or, more likely, MySQL 5.1-GA seeding to the mirrors. We promised that it would come soon, and it's coming. All internal QA automated tests were passed, a batch of additional manual tests with the packaged binaries (called "smoke tests" internally) were performed to make sure that no embarrassing errors were left, and now the train of bits is traveling to the mirrors. Once the mirrors are loaded, expect the announcement, within a few days. |
Nov
18
2008
Sheeri has already commented on this, but I want to stress that MySQL 5.1.30 will be GA by December 6th, 2008.