Last week passed the 5th anniversary of the closing of Oracle's acquisition of MySQL. That also means that the 5 year term of the infamous 10 commitments to MySQL users that Oracle made to the EU commission expire.

Since I work for another database technology nowadays, I have made a point of not blogging about MySQL related issues anymore (and mostly do not follow MySQL close enough to say anything wise). But in 2009 I was so closely involved in the EU investigation into the Oracle-Sun merger, that I feel this is a topic I could write a retrospective on. For nostalgic reasons if nothing else... In any case, these commitments have very little practical relevance in 2015 anyway, so anything in this blog post is clearly more historical than about current state of anything in MySQL land.

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MySQL SystemQA: MySQL Fabric Crash Testing

MySQL Fabric is an open-source solution released by the MySQL Engineering team at Oracle.

It is an extensible and easy to use system for managing a MySQL deployment for Sharding

and High-availability.

This handles multiple machines, multiple servers in different platforms.The usability, recovery,
stability of MySQL Fabric is much more required as it is a complete distributed system. 
So we have designed a setup in JAVA framework to test various crash features.

What is a Crash in MySQL Fabric?

A crash is mainly considered as destroy,kill,stop,disconnect,etc.

Here you define crash in various points

• Kill a server using SEGKILL

• Stop a server normal way

• Reboot a server with background activities

• …

The groundhogs disagree on whether or not winter will last another six weeks. Either way, we will be enjoying the slightly warmer weather of Southern California at the end of the month.

We are exhibiting at the 13th annual Southern California Linux Expo on February 20 and 21 in Los Angeles. Scale13x is a great opportunity to learn from industry specialists including Monty Taylor from HP, Ruth Suehle from Red Hat and Brendan Gregg from Netflix.

Enter promo code VIVID to receive a 40% discount on registration, and be sure to hear Baron Schwartz speak on building a time-series database in MySQL. He is presenting Friday, February 20 and …

I will be presenting MySQL Fabric to the Triangle MySQL User Group in Raleigh on February 11th and then I will be speaking the next day at Percona University. Part of my first talk will have a live demo. Most presenters dread live demos as anything that can go wrong usually does go wrong and in very spectacular fashion to ensure humiliation, disgrace, and well deserved scorn.

To add to the pressure is a new laptop that is so far reluctant to perform well during the first two presentations of this year. Hopefully third presentation is a charm.

So how do you start with Fabric? First, download the MySQL Utilities. I am using the 1.5.2 version (1.6 Alpha is also …

This article will explain the installation and usage of mytop, a handy tool for live monitoring of MySQL queries. Also looking into various operations that a user can perform while monitoring the queries on mytop.

We are glad to announce the release of the updated database tools for Oracle and MySQL. Each tool includes a variety of specific improvements, that were developed and implemented to make your experience with any of the applications yet more productive and comfortable.

We are glad to announce the release of the updated database tools for Oracle and MySQL. Each tool includes a variety of specific improvements, that were developed and implemented to make your experience with any of the applications yet more productive and comfortable.

I stopped working on MySQL at Sun Microsystems in late 2009 (after a lengthy period of garden leave), to join Monty Program Ab, and was greatly anticipating a MariaDB release that we could take to market. The first GA release of MariaDB came out February 1 2010 – MariaDB 5.1.42. Today is MariaDB Server’s 5th birthday!

We didn’t even want to call it GA back then — we referred to it as a “stable” release. We didn’t make our own builds because we figured source code tarballs were good enough; so builds were made and hosted at OurDelta. It took some months (around August 2010) when we moved release notes to the Knowledgebase (which you’ll notice has moved from kb.askmonty.org to its current location) from the old front page wiki …

Podcasts General

When we went monthly at the end of 2014, did you worry that we would forget our blooper show? This month's podcast is a blooper reel just for you - about 35 minutes of put-a-smile-on-your-face fun with insight as to how things work - or don't work - behind-the-scenes.

I hope your 2015 is going well!

Podcasts General

When we went monthly at the end of 2014, did you worry that we would forget our blooper show? This month's podcast is a blooper reel just for you - about 35 minutes of put-a-smile-on-your-face fun with insight as to how things work - or don't work - behind-the-scenes.

I hope your 2015 is going well!