Dear Kettle and MySQL fans,

Next week I’ll be strolling around the MySQL user conference in Santa Clara.  Even better, I’ll be presenting Tuesday afternoon (3:05pm).  The topic is Pentaho Data Integration 4.0 and MySQL.

The presentation will show you what the world’s most popular open source data integration tool can do for a MySQL user.  It will include practical examples and will showcase the latest improvements present in the brand new version 4.0.

Even more than the presentation itself, I’m looking forward to meeting you all over there.  The regular crowd, MySQL users, Pentaho partners, folks from …

Well finally the last few weeks are over and we have Release 1.1 of Citrus Replay out of the door.

This release of Citrus Replay adds interactive Business Rules to support Data Understanding, Data Quality and ad hoc Data Analysis.

The new interactive business rules provide:

• Automatic decision tree layout
• Comprehensive aggregates within the nodes. These show you how many rows fall into a node for example, or show the total "value" of those rows
  

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I've been working on a side project using Google Web Toolkit (GWT), and I'm using CouchDB as the backend store.

There is a project called couchapp which makes it very easy to write an HTML/Javascript-only application (you know, the new cewl way to build apps), and store it directly in CouchDB.

Huh? What are the benefits of doing this?

Well, offline support is the big one for me. If I install a CouchDB instance on my local machine, and then set up replication, my app and its data can automatically be replicated to my local CouchDB. I lose my connection, that's fine, everything I need is there. I get back online, my changes are automatically replicated back to my CouchDB in the cloud.

It also …

Perspectives on the IBM patent hoo-ha. Karmasphere lands funding. And more.

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“Tracking the open source news wires, so you don’t have to.”

# IBM denied breaking its open source patent promise, claimed TurboHercules a member of organizations founded and funded by Microsoft, other competitors. Perspectives on the IBM patent hoo-ha: Florian Mueller, Simon Phipps, Matt Asay, Jim Zemlin, Eric Raymond.

# Oracle will …

Changes (as compared to 3.73) include the bug fixes:

* Log analysis could use high CPU if the option to replace literals with a placeholder was not selected and the literal string ‘ “‘ (space + doublequote) occured in the log file.
* CSV-export from Query Analyzer only exported 200 rows (the same number as displayed in the browser view). Now CSV-export will export all rows. Also the UI makes it now clear that the browser displays the 200 uppermost rows according to current sort criteria.
* An error message regarding an integer overflow could occur in Monitor/Advisors page for some values. The SQLite datatype used could be too short for some specific data.
* Login to MONyog could fail if MONyog was running behind a proxy.

Downloads: http://webyog.com/en/downloads.php
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MySQL Installation Using Redhat Package Manager (RPM) on Linux

Requirements:

• MySQL installation packages

Steps:

1. Log onto the linux server using root.
2. Browse to the directory where the MySQL installation package is available.
3. Run the following Commands.

• rpm –Uvh MySQL package .rpm

( U= Install/Updating a package v=Verbose h=shows progress)

This Command installs the Rpm package on the linux machine.

You can use the following rpm commands to check the package details and location.

• Display version of a package that is installed rpm –q package
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Finally, HeidiSQL has an editor for scheduled events, available since MySQL 5.1 . First ideas were implemented and committed yesterday. Thanks to all user comments and votes on issue #1527. This is a great feature for all users which normally think of creating a cron job to clean up some tables. See it in action by updating to the latest build (see "Help" > "Check for updates"). This is how it looks like:

At this year's User Conference I have some interesting results to present. But more than anything else, my talk will explain how you can really get the most out of the engine. The design of PBXT makes it flexible, but this provides a lot of options. What tools are available to help you make the right decisions? I will explain.

Every design has trade-offs. How does this work out in practice for PBXT? And how can you take advantage of the strengths of the storage engine? I will explain in:

A Practical Guide to the PBXT Storage Engine
Paul McCullagh
2:00pm - 3:00pm Tuesday, 04/13/2010
Ballroom E

Don't miss it! :)

Back in October I wrote about a student group I was sponsoring to create a new command line tool for Drizzle. The group wrapped up their part of the project (the term ended), and we now have a new tool called Boots! A few of the developers are still active in the project, and I’m planning to get involved more as well. We also have a couple students interested in hacking on it for Drizzle’s Google Summer of Code.

Boots is written in Python and aims to replace the the previous ‘drizzle’ tool (which was modified from the ‘mysql’ command line tool). It doesn’t support everything that the old tool has yet (like tab completion), but it adds some new features. For example, there are multiple ‘lingos’, or modular languages, that can be used to communicate with the …

At the upcoming MySQL UC, I have a BoF on Tuesday at 7 PM on the history of databases. One things that would be interesting to discuss there is NoSQL. Is this the next great wave? If you have read my Blog before, you know that I think this is not the case, although I do see the need and use for NoSQL technologies. But my main argument against it is that sacrificing functionality and general purposeness (if that is a word), is not how progress works. Performance increases in general, without the need to compromise functionality. But I may be wrong, it has happened before (at least I think I have been wrong before, but I'm not really sure).
But in addition to this, I'd like a general debate on database history. SQL has been around for a long time, but there are other technologies out there, most of them still around in some shape or form, at least on …