Zack Urlocker says MySQL 5.1 has zero bugs. He may have been misquoted, or quoted out of context, but there it is. I’ll quote enough of it that you can’t take it out of context twice:

Mickos also said MySQL 5.1 has upgraded its reliability and ease of use over 2005’s v5.0.

“Now we can admit it, but this version is much improved over 5.0, which we weren’t totally happy with,” Mickos confided.

He reported that more than 1,300 bugs (997 in 2007, 386 so far in 2008) have been fixed in v5.1, and that, according to standard DBT2 benchmarks, the performance of v5.1 is 10 to 15 percent better than the previous version.

“This version now has zero bugs,” Urlocker told eWEEK.

You can check for yourself at the MySQL bug …

yeah, it is all odbc, all the time here, it seems. that is just because i can’t write about the really exciting stuff. soon!

that is not to say that releasing mysql connector/odbc 5.1.3-rc is not a huge milestone! it took us a while to get there, but we finally have a unicode-aware odbc driver that is, in our opinions, production-ready. now we just need some community feedback to find out if we are right. there are a few minor issues we know about already, but the impact of those is generally small enough that the majority of folks should not have any problems.

yeah, it is all odbc, all the time here, it seems. that is just because i can’t write about the really exciting stuff. soon!

that is not to say that releasing mysql connector/odbc 5.1.3-rc is not a huge milestone! it took us a while to get there, but we finally have a unicode-aware odbc driver that is, in our opinions, production-ready. now we just need some community feedback to find out if we are right. there are a few minor issues we know about already, but the impact of those is generally small enough that the majority of folks should not have any problems.

working with the iodbc driver manager on mac os x has been a frustration on two fronts.

first, the installer api functions provided by iodbc constantly set the configuration mode to ODBC_BOTH_DSN, which means you have to keep resetting it to the correct value after nearly every installer api call. this problem is platform-agnostic — the iodbc code is just plain wrong.

second, when called from the odbc administrator application on mac os x, any failures that the driver reports or passes through from the installer api in registering the driver are ignored, and the application instead uses a generic prompt for dsn configuration.

so even with the first problem fixed, the second problem has led to a lot of tail-chasing until i discovered that the odbc administrator application only obtains enough privileges to write to /Library/ODBC as …

MySQL is listing a good overview of the bugs they still have open in 5.1
This list comes very handy as I have on my todolist to figure out which bugs they still have open in 5.1 Cluster to see if we are impacted by one or more of them.
Now I don't have to manually go trough the lists anymore ..

thnx MySQL !

Fortune Cookie at the MySQL Pre-Conference Party.

Vani and I both started using "Life Balance":http://www.llamagraphics.com/LB/LifeBalanceTop.html for our todo lists in the last week or two. It's great so far.

One of the items I added was a occasionally recurring "File a bug report" task.

Writing a "good bug report":http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html is a relatively quick and easy way to help the authors and maintainers of the software you use make it better.

I was working a bit with "Xen":http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ on Fedora Core 5 some days ago and found out that the default scripts don't deal nicely with anything but the most basic net configuration. "Hello bugzilla":https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193322.

MySQL is one of the nicest projects to file bug reports for, because they are very nice about "following up":http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=19498 and actually …

Vani and I both started using "Life Balance":http://www.llamagraphics.com/LB/LifeBalanceTop.html for our todo lists in the last week or two. It's great so far.

One of the items I added was a occasionally recurring "File a bug report" task.

Writing a "good bug report":http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html is a relatively quick and easy way to help the authors and maintainers of the software you use make it better.

I was working a bit with "Xen":http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/netos/xen/ on Fedora Core 5 some days ago and found out that the default scripts don't deal nicely with anything but the most basic net configuration. "Hello bugzilla":https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193322.

MySQL is one of the nicest projects to file bug reports for, because they are very nice about "following up":http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=19498 and actually …