Our innobase plugin in Drizzle is now based on Innobase 1.1.1 from MySQL 5.5.5-m3.

This brings all the great new improvements from the Innobase team to Drizzle.

We've had such a large number of signups to our Migrating MyISAM to InnoDB webinar, that we decided to hold one more before the year is out:

December, 8th 9AM PST: Introduction to Percona Server, XtraDB and Xtrabackup.

As the title suggests: this presentation is an introduction.  We will be running through the main aspects that change, and where you can expect to get the most benefit.

This will be a technical talk, but perhaps less technical than some of …

Everyone loves the colorful and easy lighting fire logs you can buy in the store for between $3-5, and from our feedback we are savoring the fact that everyone also adores the vibrant and flamboyant Log Buffer.

Winter has started and the holiday season is approaching fast. With the chillness of winter and festive mode induced by the holidays, bloggers across the planet are coming up with more and more exciting ideas. Let’s start with sizzling Log Buffer #207.

Oracle Jewels:

Discussing the common errors by the DBAs, Hemant K Chitale from Oracle …

The 451 Group's annual report on the state of the open source business world is out. Already the title: Control and Community suggests they are once again on top of what has been going on this year. Analyzing about 300 open source related businesses they not only "get it right", but were actually able to uncover some facts even I was unaware of and this impressed me a lot. If an analyst can dig up statistics to back up something that I already "intuitively" know in my heart, that is a useful service. But if they can make me go "ah, I didn't know that" on a topic I consider myself quite an expert in, the I'm impressed!

This is an analyst report, available for a price that would be completely unreasonable for a private person. I was pondering whether I should go begging for a free copy to satisfy my curiosity on the topic. But that wasn't necessary, as the …

Update: Thank you all for making this campaign a stupendous success. We are extending this offer till 3rd Dec 10, 23:59 PST succumbing to users demand. Many corporate users requested us to extend the offer as they require time to get official approval. Pick your copy right now! Use coupon code blkfrdy10 to get 50% off.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Black Friday is back with a bang! We are happy to offer a 50% flat discount on all Webyog products. Hurry up, this offer is valid only till 29th Nov 10, 23:59 PST 3rd Dec 10, 23:59 PST.

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Worried about your MySQL server’s health? Monitor it like a PRO. Get MONyog – MySQL Monitor & …

Last week I announced internally that after my paternity leave ends next year, I will not be returning to Monty Program.

When I joined the company over a year ago I was immediately involved in drafting a project plan for the Open Database Alliance and its relation to MariaDB. We wanted to imitate the model of the Linux Foundation and Linux project, where the MariaDB project would be hosted by a non-profit organization where multiple vendors would collaborate and contribute. We wanted MariaDB to be a true community project, like most successful open source projects are - such as all other parts of the LAMP stack.

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 With the 2.0.1 Community maintenance release, the 64-bit and 32-bit Windows Community release is now available as well.
 

This release includes a number of bug fixes that you can see at http://bugs.launchpad.net/infinidb.  You can download the latest InfiniDB binaries, source code, and updated documentation at: http://infinidb.org/d...

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Server bottlenecks and failures are a fact of life in any database deployment, but they don’t have to bring everything to a halt. MySQL provides several features that can protect you from outages, whether you’re running directly on the hardware, on virtual machines, or in the cloud. This…

MySQL High Availability

Good coverage of MySQL and replication

By sjmudd from Madrid, Spain on 11/24/2010 4out of 5

Pros: Easy to understand, Accurate, Well-written, Concise, Helpful examples

Best Uses: Intermediate, Expert

Describe Yourself: Sys Admin, Database Administrator

I work in quite a …

If you live in the U.S., this is the week to gorge on turkey. I wondered out loud last night to my wife if Thanksgiving is the day of the year when the most people eat the same meal. Can any of our overseas readers add to the conversation? Is there a holiday in your country where everyone eats pretty much the same thing? Anyway, before American brains shut down from an overdose of stuffing, here's some developer news you can use.

Oracle announces Plan B for Java

The Java language has continued to evolve over the years, adding features such as Generics. There's an ambitious wishlist of things that developers would like to see in Java 7, but apparently not enough time to do it all and still get a timely release out. As a result, the JCP has decided to forego some of the goodies until Java 8, which is not expected to grace the world until late 2012.

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Percona Server version 5.1.52-rel11.6 is now available for download.

The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona stable release to the latest version of MySQL 5.1.

Functionality Added or Changed

•  Percona Server 5.1.52-rel11.6 is now based on MySQL 5.1.52.
•  New Features Added: None
•  Other Changes: None

Bugs Fixed

• Bug #671764 - innochecksum wasn't distributed with RPM and .DEB packages. (Aleksandr Kuzminsky)
• Bug #673426 - Use of some system variables as command-line options caused a crash or undefined behavior. (Oleg Tsarev)
• Bug #673929 - Query cache misses were being …