As MySQL Community Managers, Dave an myself are always looking for ways to gather feedback on MySQL. 
We want to make ourselves available to you. The current plan is the last Monday of every month Dave and Myself will be on #freenode and join a chat room called MySQL_user_groups. 
We will also try to be available as much as possible in a chat room called MySQL_Community.
You can join us and ask questions or just let us know your opinions. 
We want to hear about everything from your best presentation topics, to the worst. What is the biggest struggle you find with user groups ? How could Oracle help? 

We’ve released a new set of monitoring plugins for MySQL servers and related software. With these plugins, you can set up world-class graphing and monitoring for your MySQL servers, using your own on-premises Cacti and Nagios software. The Cacti plugins are derived from an existing set of templates we’ve been using for several years, but the Nagios check plugins are brand new. They are informed by the research we did into the causes and preventions of MySQL downtime.

Like all Percona software, the plugins are open-source and free, licensed under the GNU GPL. The source code and issue tracker are hosted at …

I have been at Mozilla nearly three months, and I used to blog a lot more than I currently do. A lot of the content I used to blog about I end up blogging and talking about in OurSQL: The MySQL Database Community Podcast. And I have also been getting used to the Mozilla firehose, as well as my own firehose of database projects that need to be done.
There are two very large projects that are time-sensitive that I am working on: migrating databases from an older data center to a newer one, and the impending public launch of the Mozilla Apps Store.
That being said, this week in Mozilla databases we have:
- migrated/improved/built our dev/stage databases for Socorro, our crash stats database.
- put monitoring on a newer backup server, after a random check …

I have been at Mozilla nearly three months, and I used to blog a lot more than I currently do. A lot of the content I used to blog about I end up blogging and talking about in OurSQL: The MySQL Database Community Podcast. And I have also been getting used to the Mozilla firehose, as well as my own firehose of database projects that need to be done.

There are two very large projects that are time-sensitive that I am working on: migrating databases from an older data center to a newer one, and the impending public launch of the Mozilla Apps Store.

That being said, this week in Mozilla databases we have:

- migrated/improved/built our dev/stage databases for Socorro, our crash stats database.

- put monitoring on a newer backup server, after a random check showed replication had been stopped on one backup …

I recently wrote about SQL_MODE, and Ronald Bradford was quick to reply with his view on things. Although my post was a bit of a rant, and I think it was a necessary rant, it seems that Ronald and I largely agree on the overall matter of things.

Now today WebYog implies that I and Ronald want to get rid of it and replace it with more strict, rigid checks on data entering MySQL. Tell you want, however much I would like that, I am not stupid, I realize that is not practical. Rather, I say sure, keep SQL_MODE, but make it possible to enforce it and check it, and do not allow just about anyone with …

There are a lot of events scheduled for the next few months, we are excited about the international scope and the mix of big and small, paid and free events. This week we finish explaining the output of EXPLAIN. Ear candy is sshfs, at the movies is a presentation on joins and subqueries and how to optimize them.

Free OTN MySQL Developer Day, Singapore, Tuesday Feb 21st

Free OTN MySQL Developer Day, Paris, France, Tuesday Feb 21st

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This is my considerations/thoughts after reading:

http://karlssonondatabases.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-i-think-sqlmode-is-useless.html
http://ronaldbradford.com/blog/why-sql_mode-is-essential-even-when-not-perfect-2012-02-16/

It is not possible to remove SQL_mode and in particularly not to remove ‘non-strict’ modes without breaking a lot of applications. The problems occurs with a table like this

CREATE TABLE `test`.`strict`(
`id` INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`col1` VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL,
`col2` VARCHAR(10),
PRIMARY KEY (`id`));

.. and an INSERT statement like this:

INSERT INTO `test`.`strict`(`col2`) VALUES …

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Here's how to update your fields value by adding a prefix on it. You will have to use some functions in your WHERE statement to filter only those records that you want to be updated.

UPDATE `database`.`table`
SET field_value = CONCAT('PREFIX', field_value)
WHERE field_value = var;