Yep, it's true. "MySQL Toolkit" technically infringes on MySQL's trademark. I haven't been given a mandate or cease-and-desist order or anything, but as Marten Mickos (MySQL's CEO) told me, anything that starts with the word "MySQL" sounds like it comes from the company, and this project doesn't come from MySQL.
Suggestions are welcome. I'm totally uninspired. "Toolkit" was the best I could do when I named the project to begin with.
Thanks to a patch Dane Miller submitted, MySQL Heartbeat can now be used to monitor Slony-I replication lag for PostgreSQL. It works identically: it updates a record on the master and looks for it on the slave. You just have to specify the database driver on the command-line:
mysql-heartbeat [options] --dbidriver=Pg
Most of the tools in the MySQL Toolkit are very MySQL-specific. This one just happened to be an exception, and I'm happy it's useful for more than the original purpose.
Si Chen wrote recently about the growth limits of open-source projects. He points out that as a project becomes larger, it gets harder to maintain. I can only agree. As the MySQL Toolkit project has grown, it's become significantly more work to maintain, document, and enhance.
One of the enhancements I added to MySQL Archiver in the recent release was listed innocently in the changelog as "Destination plugins can now rewrite the INSERT statement." Not very exciting or informative, huh? Keep reading.
This release fixes some minor bugs. It also adds a few major new features to several of the tools. The command-line option and help functionality, as well as several other pieces of common functionality, has been replaced with common modules that have a test suite. This is the first step towards a gradual rewrite to replace untested 'script' code with tested, maintainable code.
I've used Safari (the O'Reilly version) for a number of years now
and it is a resource I often recommend to coworkers. Basically,
it's an on-line library of technical books (since expanded to
include video) from a group of publishers. O'Reilly, Microsoft
Press, Cisco Press, Syngress, and many others have books and
resources on-line at Safari. It came into
being in 2001 but I remember a predecessor version back in
the late 90s from Que Publishing/Macmillan Computer Publishing
called Personal Bookshelf, which I also used. Back in those days
I was in the Air Force and that provided some of the technical
books I couldn't afford on an Air Force salary.
Subscribing to Safari gives one the ability to put a certain
number of books onto a "bookshelf" and the books …
A little while ago I offered to take time off work and improve MySQL Table Sync. I've gotten a very positive response to that, with several organizations offering to contribute to the bounty, so I'll go ahead and commit to doing this. Read on for the details.
Some time ago I was looking for a password vault and came across
some recommendations for KeePass. KeePass is open source and free. It's a
nice password manager and some of the features I
like are:
A new version, 1.09, released in October. There is also a …
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For a variety reasons, including personal/family concerns and
workload, I've not been able to write as often as I'd like. That
doesn't just include the blog, but also writing articles. It's
been a long while since I've written an article for SSC. I want to get back to writing
at least monthly, if not more often. One of the keys to writing
well is to write every day. Therefore, I'm going to provide some
structure to the blog in order to make it easier to post every
weekday with something that will hopefully be useful. Here's the
types of posts that should be present based on the day of the
week:
This tool allow to deploy large number of MySQL replication Slaves (and Master servers)
It is available on Ruby Forge: http://rubyforge.org/projects/vladenvironment/ The tool is based on Vlad the Deployer and is written on Ruby