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Dec
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Dec
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2011
Jive goes public. webOS goes open source. Cloud Foundry goes .NET. And more.
# Jive Software started IPO at $12 a share, closing the day up nearly 30%.
# HP announced that it plans to release webOS under an open source license. Details are thin on the ground, although Fedora is reportedly an inspiration. Joel West’s post pretty much summed up my thoughts.
# Tier 3 …
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Dec
14
2011
A year ago I posted a blog on The state of MySQL forks: co-operating without co-operating. (Also Giuseppe wrote about the topic at that time, and Peter Zaitsev covers it in his conference keynotes.) So I've been wondering if it would be good to write an update on the topic now, and in that case what to write.
Dec
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2011
My first week at Mozilla was relatively uneventful. I spent it at the Mountain View office, meeting people in person, having a few meetings, and actually doing a few tasks in addition to all of the setup and overhead that comes with being a new employee.
After traveling back home to Boston, my second week of work was a bit more eventful. We had a RAID array fail when we went to replace a disk. The RAID array held all of our e-mail, so until we could restore a backup and work on getting as much post-backup data we could out of corrupt databases (LDAP and MySQL), nobody had e-mail.
E-mail is a very big deal in any company, and Mozilla, with around 600 employees, is no exception. It was fascinating to watch my new coworkers deal with a crisis of this magnitude. A person's true self is brought out under pressure, and I got to see how everyone acted and reacted.
Folks who …
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Dec
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2011
A few days ago Codership announced their new version Galera v1.1 - synchronous Replication Cluster for MySQL. Before we look at the new feature of Rolling Online Schema Upgrade (OSU) we have a look at how to upgrade to the new Galera release.
A rolling upgrade of your synchronous Galera Replication Cluster from version 1.0 to 1.1 is quite easy when you stay at the same MySQL version (5.5).
To not lose the availability of your database service during the upgrade you should have at least 3 Galera nodes in your Cluster.
For further details please also look at MySQL/Galera cluster upgrade. …
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Dec
14
2011
A few days ago Codership announced their new version Galera v1.1 - synchronous Replication Cluster for MySQL. Before we look at the new feature of Rolling Online Schema Upgrade (OSU) we have a look at how to upgrade to the new Galera release.
A rolling upgrade of your synchronous Galera Replication Cluster from version 1.0 to 1.1 is quite easy when you stay at the same MySQL version (5.5).
To not lose the availability of your database service during the upgrade you should have at least 3 Galera nodes in your Cluster.
For further details please also look at MySQL/Galera cluster upgrade. …
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Dec
14
2011
Hello!
We are delighted to announce the release of SQLyog 9.5 GA. This release is geared towards enhancing the user experience.
The major changes are:
- The conversion of modal dialogue boxes to a tabbed interface
for creating and altering tables, and defining table properties.
- Creating a table involves – defining columns, and often, creating indexes and foreign keys. Before, these actions had to be done one after the other, which was annoyingly slow. Now, you can define columns, and create indexes and foreign keys – all in a single interface, which gives you a single CREATE/ALTER TABLE query to execute. Not only is creating tables easier, it is also much faster!
- Modal dialogue boxes limit one from multitasking. Previously, when in the middle of creating a foreign key, if some information had to be looked up from a different table (or even the …
Dec
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2011
2012 is near… and so is the next FOSDEM edition !
This year again, MySQL will be represented by its Community.
If you want to discuss with friend’s of MySQL it’s the place to be in February !
Like every year, FOSDEM takes place the first week-end of February in Brussels.
The MySQL and Friends devroom is Room H.1309 (150 seats). We (the MySQL Community) will have the room on Sunday 5th February 2012, all day.
We are organizing a MySQL & Friends dinner on Saturday night, more to come later on this.
If you want to propose a talk (you are in fact invited to propose
one !), the deadline is December 26th.
Like we did on past editions, as soon as the talks are submitted,
we will ask everyone to vote on the talks via …
Dec
13
2011
Christmas time, time for presents! Version 1.2.0-alpha of the free and open source PHP mysqlnd replication and load balancing plugin has been made available on PECL. PECL/mysqlnd_ms makes using any kind of MySQL database cluster easier featuring:
- Read-write splitting: automatic, SQL hints, can be disabled
- Load balancing: random, round robin, user defined
- Fail over
- Global transaction ID support: client-side emulation
- Service levels: eventual consistency, session consistency, strong consistency
The last two features are new. The motto/theme of the 1.2 series is: Global Transaction ID injection and quality-of-service concept.
For many years MySQL has adviced PHP developers to implement all kinds of logic needed to use MySQL …
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Dec
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2011
Many of you have seen the announcement for our Percona Live in Washington, DC in January! But did you know we also have our highly rated MySQL Training coming to Washington, DC the week of January 16h? Full details can be found on the Percona website. If you would like to attend the MySQL Training, click here to register and receive a 20% discount.