The latest from the MySQL community

As Farhan has already pointed out to us, Disaster is Inevitable - Must shutdown generators. My primary hosting provider The Planet had a serious meltdown, 9,000 servers unavailable, DNS and administration application .

My server was effectively totally unavailable from 3PM Saturday until 10AM Monday, 43 hours in total.

The problem didn’t stop there. Started and verified servers and domains, but like 8 hours later I find that the DNS is wrong on two important domains (I didn’t discover this because I have them in local /etc/hosts) because I moved them to a different IP like 2 weeks ago.

The Planet denied any problems, ticket logged to get them fixed because admin interface was still down.
Wind forward, …

By drinking “Brainiac” at Google of course.

All my photos from the Conference Here

Marten has opened the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo this morning in Santa Clara.

What was funny in the early slides was the photo showing the burning of the IPO Prospectus. Marten mentioned now with many Sun lawyers in the audience he has to be more careful what to say.

This morning while coming down for breakfast, a Sun employee entered the lift. I introduced myself, and he indicated he knew me by name. When I asked what department he was in, he said “legal”. Being intrigued as to who he knew me, I’d discovered he has read my emails and blog posts.

I must admit I’ve met a number of new people this week and the first word has been “Oh!”, as in they have heard of my name previously.

These have been unexpected responses and information for me, I’m not normally surprised like this. I’ll not be changing what I say, and how I say it, professionally my writing and publishing will continue to embody …

Kevin Murphy just posted Tip of the Day ? max_connections and I thought it might be nice to know what people actually set this to so I’ve created a Survey “What’s your max_connections” (totally anonymous).

For the record, while a consultant the record for a production system was 9,500. Yes you read right, and I might add the client was running a 32-bit OS as well, just to boot.
Apparently they had also tested they could get 9,500 connections, problem is they didn’t do anything with the connections, so didn’t see any per thread memory usage, and I did not get confirmation of how the actually system memory usage was used during the test.

I got my registration for Google App Engine this morning after being Waitlisted previously.

Between flying for about 15 hrs tomorrow and then the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo where I’m presenting and running an Exhibitors booth, fat chance I’ll get to look into this much over the next week.

Pity!

I’ve noticed a change of buttons lately on sites where you can bookmark/share the relevant information. So I’ve done a cross sample of A Computer Site - www.dell.com, The MySQL Acquirer - www.sun.com, A News site - www.cnn.com and a technology information site - www.techcrunch.com

What got me to go back and research is I’d never seen a FaceBook icon before, or perhaps I’d never paid enough attention.

At the end most sites now wash out to a site called Add This.

Ronald Bradford,
Chief Operating Officer (COO),
PrimeBase Technologies

The official press release of my commencement at PrimeBase Technologies can be now found at
Ronald Bradford strengthens management team and new open source initiative.

I’m very excited to be the COO, that’s Chief Operating Officer, rather impressive if you say it out loud a few times. My close friends and MySQL colleagues in the know in New York were also most impressed I’ve made CxO status during celebrations in recent previous weeks. My title was under wraps until I’d started.

What does COO mean at PrimeBase Technologies? I’m being charged with a number of things. I will responsible for the new Business Solutions division which includes helping to define the product road map for …

It’s been six weeks since the completion of the acquisition of MySQL by Sun Microsystems. In this time, on the MySQL News and Press Releases there has only been one (1) Press Release here.
In the six weeks between the announcement and completion of the acquisition MySQL made ten (10) Press Releases, and the six weeks preceding this including the Christmas break there was (six) Press Releases.

On the Sun Press Releases in this period there has been twenty three (23), but just the same one MySQL specific. …

Well at least your MySQL database world.

As Paul eluded to, PrimeBase Technologies has a project to provide synchronous replication for MySQL in a High Availability environment. It is more then an idea, there is a plan.

Is it possible?
What are the use cases?
How can you use it?
Would you use it?

Some input to date. We need these questions and more, and we seeking more input for discussion.

Unfortunately the opportunity to hear any input during a presentation is left to the last day of the conference, so we have created a BoF session on Tuesday night for a round table discussion if necessary. We encourage people to bring specific cases and situations for feedback, the reasons why MySQL Replication, MySQL Cluster, DRBD/HeatBeat or any other solution does not satisfy your needs, and what …

There has been some discussion recently regarding the death of MySQL Read Replication starting with Brian Aker and then Farhan, Arjen and Paul have all chimed in. Whatever you want to call it, the next generation of replication approach is clearly on the agenda of the industry leaders and pack followers. We should take a programmatic look however and ask ourselves a few questions. Such as:

1. The Use — What is/was MySQL Replication used for?
2. The Reasons — Why was it used?
3. The Problems — Why is there a need for something better, different or …