Its March already? How times flies.

The last quarter has been a pretty exciting time for all of us working on Drizzle. We completed the Bell milestone back in January and began immediately plowing into Cherry, our next release. Somewhere in the last couple of months we have seen transition of all of the Drizzle developers at Sun moving into full time positions at other companies working on Drizzle, and we have seen the non-Sun developers move into other positions as well (most note'ably Padraig who went to work for Akiban).

So what is happening for the Cherry release?

Authorization with LDAP

We are adding direct support for LDAP in the next release. With this we be able to fetch authorization information from LDAP. All of this work is being done via our plugin system and builds on the work we have done for PAM and HTTP Auth. We know that companies already have identity systems and don't want …

The 181st edition of Log Buffer has been published by Gary Myers on his Sydney Oracle Lab.

Having recently moved his blog, Gary approached the Log Buffer coordinator to volunteer for an edition because he knows that, with LB being a popular and established destination in the database blogoshphere, it would help him broadcast his new blog and welcome readers to it. You can do it too–simply send an email to the Log Buffer coordinator.

Here’s Gary’s Log Buffer #181.

I just noticed that MySQL's Zack Urlocker Joined the board for Revolution Board

REvolution? Who the heck are they?
Zack says "Predictive analytics is a multi-billion dollar market and it's ripe for disruption".

What the heck is predictive analytics? Well, that's what Google is for. Turns out it has a lot of uses, and has been in use for a while.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictive_analytics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)

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Elliot offers $2bn for Novell. OSI refutes IIPA’s view on open source. And more.

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# Novell confirmed a $2bn purchase offer from Elliot Associates. Interesting perspectives on Elliot’s offer for Novell from Linuxquestions, Andy Updegrove, and Matt Asay.

# The OSI categorically rejected the …

Matt Aslett over at The 451 Group has written a Market Development report entitled “Tokutek delivers ACID transaction support with TokuDB version 3.0.” Get the full report and you can try out The 451 Group’s services for free by visiting http://the451group.com/apply/apply.php.

Matt observes that, “While TokuDB is effectively an operational database technology, it does blur the lines between operations and analytics”. We agree with that perspective and that blurred line is particularly relevant to the community of advanced web application developers who built on MySQL.

Ian Eure over at Digg articulated the issue well: “The fundamental problem is endemic to the …

While some may think I’m daft, I have a legitimate reason for wanting to crash mysqld. However first we need to find a way to crash it.

Great thanks to Alan K, Mark L, Harrison and Hartmut on #mysql-dev for several suggestions and a config option I was unaware of. My investigation even lead to a documentation bug logged as #51739.

My first thought was to find a known bug and if necessary install the correct version to test that. A good one was suggested, Bug #48508 which fails on several versions that I will use to demonstrate with, however the simplest way is to issue kill -11

By default, no core file will be produced which is what I’m seeking but with the right options this is possible. First, the user running mysqld probably has a core file limit size of 0.

$ ulimit …

Oracle's acquisition of Sun has opened up all sorts of questions: Will MySQL get the support it needs? What will become of the MySQL community? Where should database administrators put their efforts and resources?

Ronald Bradford can answer that last question. Bradford, an RDBMS expert and a speaker at the upcoming MySQL Conference and Expo, has been guiding DBAs through key aspects of MySQL integration for years. In the following Q&A, he discusses the pros and cons of migrating from Oracle to MySQL (hint: it's not just about cost savings). He also weighs in on the future of MySQL and its community.

Jumping from Oracle to MySQL

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Assume we’ve a table with 100 rows and we need to select all columns but one.The problem is headache of actually typing out all 99 required columns!! In this blog…

The post Ideas for select all columns but one mysql stored procedure first appeared on Change Is Inevitable.

As I've been doing the last couple of years, I will be going to the O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo. In addition to the tutorial and the replication sessions that I will be holding together with Lars, I will be holding a session about the binary log together with Chuck from the Backup team which the Replication team normally works very close with.

This year, O'Reilly also have a Friend of the Speaker discount of 25% that you can use when you register using the code mys10fsp.

The sessions that we are going to hold are listed below. Note that I am using Microformats, which will allow …

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Recently there has been a lot of discussion on fundamental scalability of traditional relational database systems. Many of the blog posts on this topic give a great overview of some of the immediate issues faced by engineers while scaling relational databases, but don’t dissect the problem in a systematic way and with sufficient depth to get to the core issues. I’d like to dedicate a series of blog posts …