Dear MySQL users, MaxDB users and friends,

Several co-workers have spoken to me on the length of the MaxDB series postings. I fully agree that most postings are too long for a blog. But we do have a very eager plan to publish a complete online class. This is causing long postings and we can’t make them much shorter. We try to structure the articles in a similar way like a web page to make reading and navigating easier. Every posting has a table of contents, is devided into sections and has a fixed structure. For offline reading, printing and as a reference we will soon publish a PDF document with all postings of the series.

The experiment to use the medium of a blog for a class will continue as long as the readers do not complain. But we will add a “read more” link to the fixed structure of every posting. That means, we will present only the beginning of a posting on PlanetMySQL and you have to click on a “read …

This was an honor, but I must decline. We already have such an "ambassador." Thank you, Miguel.

14:15 <@miguel2> What is MaxDB?
14:15 <@tjfontaine> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxDB
14:16 < cj> miguel2: it was written in pascal in the mid 70s.  it's a
            pre-relational database with all sorts of features [added] on
14:16 <@miguel2> Wait, is that a different DB?
14:16 < cj> miguel2: yep
14:16 <@miguel2> So its not MySQL?
14:16 < cj> miguel2: nope
14:16 <@miguel2> That is crazy talk
14:16 <@miguel2> crazy
14:17 <@miguel2> I dontbelieve you
14:17 < cj> miguel2: heh, okay.  MySQL doesn't have *any* pascal code
in the
            kernel, afaik
14:19 <@miguel2> Who uses that?
14:19 <@miguel2> So why dont they pay you to hack on Mono?
14:19 < cj> miguel2: that's something I'd like to know :)
14:19 <@miguel2> We need a firm MySQL commitment to Mono
14:19 …

Dear MySQL users, MaxDB users and friends,

a new version of MaxDB 7.5.00 has been released recently: MaxDB 7.5.00.34. Two versions of MaxDB have the status of General Availability (GA). MaxDB 7.5.00 and MaxDB 7.6.00 can be used in production environments. Open Source users should use the latest release which is 7.6.00. Last weeks release of 7.5.00 Build 34 (7.5.00.34) is of interest for all 7.5.00 users. Check the Changelog if it shows “must-have” entries for you.

In this issue

This article is part of a MaxDB series on PlanetMySQL that teaches you how to use MaxDB. We hope that we can write about 40 articles in 2006: roughly one per week, published on wednesdays if time …

Dear MySQL users, MaxDB users and friends,

a new version of MaxDB 7.5.00 has been released recently: MaxDB 7.5.00.34. Two versions of MaxDB have the status of General Availability (GA). MaxDB 7.5.00 and MaxDB 7.6.00 can be used in production environments. Open Source users should use the latest release which is 7.6.00. Last weeks release of 7.5.00 Build 34 (7.5.00.34) is of interest for all 7.5.00 users. Check the Changelog if it shows “must-have” entries for you.

In this issue

This article is part of a MaxDB series on PlanetMySQL that teaches you how to use MaxDB. We hope that we can write about 40 articles in 2006: roughly one per week, published on wednesdays if time …

14:34 < MThomas> Time to install and configure Sync Manager in development
                 environment: 4 days, one of which was 15 hours long.  Time to
                 install and configure in production: 30 minutes.

I’ve written a bit of documentation that might help you get things running in the same way:

• http://wiki.colliertech.org/index.php/MaxDB:Installation
• http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/syncman/part1.html
• Create a Synchronization Scenario

© cjcollier for C.J.'s WordPress of …

Dear MySQL users, MaxDB users and friends,

this is the fourth posting in our MaxDB series. The series started about four weeks ago and it will very likely take the rest of the year to complete. All postings of the series together will make kind of an online course for MaxDB. Over the last postings we explained what MaxDB is, we explained about the outstanding features of MaxDB and we taught you how to perform a basic MaxDB installation that serves as a basis for all of the following lessons.

In this issue

The today’s MaxDB lesson is about the two most important tools of MaxDB. The first tool is the Database Manager GUI and it’s commandline counterpart dbmcli. The Database Manager GUI is the main tool to perform administrative tasks like shutting down the database, performing backups or doing some basic monitoring of the health status …

Dear MySQL users, MaxDB users and friends,

this is the fourth posting in our MaxDB series. The series started about four weeks ago and it will very likely take the rest of the year to complete. All postings of the series together will make kind of an online course for MaxDB. Over the last postings we explained what MaxDB is, we explained about the outstanding features of MaxDB and we taught you how to perform a basic MaxDB installation that serves as a basis for all of the following lessons.

In this issue

The today’s MaxDB lesson is about the two most important tools of MaxDB. The first tool is the Database Manager GUI and it’s commandline counterpart dbmcli. The Database Manager GUI is the main tool to perform administrative tasks like shutting down the database, performing backups or doing some basic monitoring of the health status …

MaxDB is a nice database but I’m missing some build-in functions, in particular a function to generate random values. All functions available in MaxDB are listed in the MaxDB manual. In the section MaxDB Library - Basic Information - Reference Manual - Functions: Overview you can find a complete list of build-in functions.

One can argue that a function to create random values is not needed inside a database. You do not need it, because you can use your programming language to generate random values. And it’s likely that your programming language comes with a sophisticated random number generator or has access to such one. For most applications it is true, that you can shift the job of generating a random value to the layer of application programming. But what if you want to use a stored …

MaxDB is a nice database but I’m missing some build-in functions, in particular a function to generate random values. All functions available in MaxDB are listed in the MaxDB manual. In the section MaxDB Library - Basic Information - Reference Manual - Functions: Overview you can find a complete list of build-in functions.

One can argue that a function to create random values is not needed inside a database. You do not need it, because you can use your programming language to generate random values. And it’s likely that your programming language comes with a sophisticated random number generator or has access to such one. For most applications it is true, that you can shift the job of generating a random value to the layer of application programming. But what if you want to use a stored …

Hello MaxDB users, administrators, hobbyists and community!

This, the third of our weekly articles on MaxDB, will cover the installation of the MaxDB server and associated tools. One of the features the team is most proud of is MaxDB's ease of installation and the speed with which it occurs. It's been estimated that a DBA with no prior knowledge of the system can complete a basic installation in less than 15 minutes. Please note that this does not include download time.

More here:
http://wiki.colliertech.org/index.php/MaxDB:Installation