MySQL Community Awards 2013 were announced earlier today at the MySQL Conference & Expo...

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It's time again to award persons, applications and companies in the MySQL Community. This is an annual tradition to highlight and give appreciation to some of the things that make MySQL so great.

The first awards were given out in 2005, and since 2010 the winners have been chosen by a community panel of which myself and Shlomi Noach are the co-secretaries. There has been a public nomination period in January and the final voting is done by a panel who are themselves former winners of the award.

The first category is

MySQL Community Awards: Community Contributor of the Year 2013

The first winner is...

Jeremy Cole

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Thanks to all of those who came to the lightning talks this evening. We’ve got the audio posted here and the lyrics below.

A special thanks to Erin Grace O’Malley O’Neill for the great performance. Thanks also to @NuoDB and @geobdz (whose photo is below) for tweets.

Stay tuned for the video as well….

MySQL Paradise

As I browse through the archive where I keep all my code
I look at my software and see it’s very old
But that’s just perfect for a …

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 10.0.2. This is an alpha release. See the release notes and changelog for details.

Download MariaDB 10.0.2

Release Notes  Changelog  Overview of 10.0

APT and YUM Repository Configuration …

We want to thank everyone for naming Continuent the Corporate Contributor of the Year 2013 for ongoing contribution to the MySQL community, at Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2013. The MySQL Community Awards are given annually to the people and companies that support the MySQL ecosystem. 

The MySQL Community Award for Corporate Contributor of the Year recognizes a company or other

Yes, Percona Live ends on Thursday, but on friday. at the same location, there is SkySQL Solutions day. Attendance is free, and among the highlights yours truly will be speaking! Register here for this free event: http://info.skysql.com/roadshow2013-0 Another highlight of this is that it ends with a Biergarten. Free!

/Karlsson

Years ago I complained bitterly about MySQL’s backwards development and release model, which made guinea pigs out of the paying customers. I think I’d be remiss if I didn’t say it’s been fixed for years. And it’s really fixed right in my opinion – much better than what I proposed. Congratulations, and thanks, to the MySQL team for superhuman software engineering, release engineering, documentation, bug triage and analysis, and doing a million things right – in other words, making a damn good database, which is hard.

MySQL Connector/J provides loadbalancing and failover support.  While testing failover I wanted to know what was happening under the hood. Specifically I wanted to know when a host was blacklisted and which host.

If you set loadBalanceStrategy to random in your connection properties, which has been the recommended strategy over round-robin, you can modify the RandomBalanceStrategy.java file to log when a host is blacklisted.

Using guidance found on Todd Farmer's blog (http://mysqlblog.fivefarmers.com/) and a bit of twiddling it wasn't difficult.

In my setup, I have jboss-as-7.1.1. running on my local windows machine with my test app I developed using one of the JBoss quickstarts.

The connector (connector-java-5.1.21) is deployed and I have the source on C:\mysql-connector-java-5.1.21.

In …

SkySQL and MariaDB are very pleased to announce a new baby in the storage Engine family : The “CONNECT Storage Engine” I have had the pleasure to work with Olivier Bertrand creator of the CONNECT storage Engine. Olivier has over 50 years of experience in database development as an ex-IBM database researcher. Olivier was very [...]

Since we announced that TokuDB is now open source, there has been a lot of positive feedback (thanks!) and also some questions about the details. I want to take this opportunity to give a quick high level guide to describe what our repositories on Github are.

Here are the repositories:

• ft-index. This repository is the “magic”. It contains the Fractal Tree data structures we have been talking about for years. This is also the main piece that was previously closed source. Here are some interesting directories:
  • src: This directory is a layer that implements an API that is similar to the BDB API.
  • locktree: an in-memory data structure that maintains transactions’ row-level locks. …

I'm in Santa Clara for Percona Live now, and things are looking good! The announceent on the merger of Monto Program and SkySQL is a good one! If you are around, I'll be speaking on MySQL on AWS on Thursday at 1:50 PM in Ballroom F. On Friday at SkySQL Solutions day (if you are at Percona Live and don't know about this, registration is free! Come see us, the program is here: http://www.skysql.com/content/mysql-cloud-database-solutions-day-schedule) I'll be talking about MySQL and MariaDB with JSON at 11:15 AM in Grand Ballroom B!

I'm also about to release a new version of my MySQL JSON tools real soon!

/Karlsson