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Last week in Paris I wen to Microsoft days show. It was a big event with steve Balmer, mainly focused on Cloud strategy, Window Phone 7 launch and other stuff. But beside that marketing part there was some interesting technical sessions. I attended one on the Microsoft Parallel Datawarehouse Solution (result of the madison project [...]

I am now back in Finland after the Monty Program Ab / MariaDB meeting in Istanbul.

As all our meetings, this meeting was also open to the public (except a few closed session about Monty Program Ab internals). As before, we had guests attending, and this time we had people from Facebook, Intel, Galera, Percona, SkySQL and from another database company. PBXT sent their greetings but could not attend because of customer meetings.

During the meetings, we presented our development plans for replication and for the new Knowledgebase system (KB). One of the objectives with the KB is to eventually create a free MariaDB / MySQL manual, but it's also a place to ask questions and find/get answers. We also had some hacking …

Setting up of a good backup and recovery strategy is crucial for any serious MySQL implementation. This strategy can vary from site to site based on various factors including size of the database, rate of change, security needs, retention and other compliance policy etc. In general, it is also required from MySQL DBAs to have least possible impact on usability and performance of the database at the time of backup - i.e MySQL and its dependent applications should remain hot during backup.

Join MySQL backup experts from Zmanda for two webinars dedicated to hot backup of MySQL:

MySQL Backup Essentials: In this webinar, we will go over best practices for backing up live MySQL databases. We will also cover Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL product in detail, including a walk through the configuration and management processes. …

Did you ever want to see the database queries an arbitrary PHP MySQL application runs? It takes two free downloads and 62 characters to see them.

• Get PHP 5.3.4-dev
• Get PECL/mysqlnd_qc
• Add 19 characters to your configure line: --enable-mysqlnd-qc
• Add 43 characters at the end of applications source, e.g. using the auto_append_file configuration setting: var_dump(mysqlnd_qc_get_query_trace_log());
• Start your query analysis

array(329) {
  [0]=>
  array(8) {
    ["query"]=>
    string(27) "SET @@session.sql_mode = """
    ["origin"]=>
    string(1330) "#0 /home/nixnutz/Downloads/oxid/core/adodblite/adodbSQL_drivers/mysql/mysql_driver.inc(352): mysql_query('SET @@session.s...', Resource id #26)
#1 …

Did you ever want to see the database queries an arbitrary PHP MySQL application runs? It takes two free downloads and 62 characters to see them.

• Get PHP 5.3.4-dev
• Get PECL/mysqlnd_qc
• Add 19 characters to your configure line: --enable-mysqlnd-qc
• Add 43 characters at the end of applications source, e.g. using the auto_append_file configuration setting: var_dump(mysqlnd_qc_get_query_trace_log());
• Start your query analysis

array(329) {
  [0]=>
  array(8) {
    ["query"]=>
    string(27) "SET @@session.sql_mode = """
    ["origin"]=>
    string(1330) "#0 /home/nixnutz/Downloads/oxid/core/adodblite/adodbSQL_drivers/mysql/mysql_driver.inc(352): mysql_query('SET @@session.s...', Resource id #26)
#1 …

I've been spending some cycles now and then on MyQuery 3.4. One thing I wanted to do with this release was to fix some long-standing bugs I knew about, but hadn't identified (Are you seeing ReleaseSemaphore errors? That's one of them). Also, I had a couple of issues with the new Plugins, as well as some ideas for new features, such as OnLine Help.

In addition to that, I also felt that the Scintilla editor controls tht I was using wasn't used to it's full potential.

As I have the new 3.4 in front of me now, I have done something about all those things. I have cleaned up some of the more recent code, I have added OnLine help, in this case I get that from the MySQL help tables. I am pretty happy with how a few more steps to integration with Scintilla could add so much more usability, Scintilla really is a great editor control with a lot of potential, I haven't …

Dear Community,

Percona Server version 5.1.50-rel12.1 RC is now available for download.

Functionality Added or Changed

• Percona Server 5.1.50-rel12.1 is now based on MySQL 5.1.50.
• New Features Added:
  • innodb_lru_dump_restore - Implemented automatic dumping of the buffer pool at specified intervals.
  • innodb_buffer_pool_shm - Implemented option ''innodb_buffer_pool_shm_checksum''; when enabled, shared memory buffer pool is checksum validated. This change also fixed these bugs: #643724, #649408, and #649393. (Yasufumi Kinoshita)
  • …

I hope to speak at Highload++ the week after next. Although the schedule has not been finalized yet, there is an indication that I'll be able to give my MySQL Stored Programs tutorial and speak about InnoDB internals.
Hope to see you there!

This is only a piece of trivia, however has anybody noticed that the MySQL logo has changed. Using the Legal Trademark page we can see the old logo and the new logo together.