I pulled this from a quote on yesterday's Slashdot story about MySQL Licensing where the author of the quote mentions Drizzle's licensing terms:

"you require the code to be under BSD"

This is actually a myth, we don't.

If you look through the Drizzle codebase you will note that very few files have BSD headers, and all that do?

They are a part of new systems that have been written since the fork of the project, and not all of these are BSD.

Why is this?

A large part of Drizzle is derived work from MySQL, and in all cases there we inherited its GPLv2 license on files. Bug fixes and code refactoring projects all fall under the umbrella of "derived work". In all of those cases the work was made under the GPL but no copyright assignment ever occurred. To understand …

This Thursday (February 25th, 13:00 UTC - way earlier than usual!), Darren Cassar will present Securich - Security Plugin for MySQL. According to Darren, the author of the plugin, Securich is an incredibly handy and versatile tool for managing user privileges on MySQL through the use of roles. It basically makes granting and revoking rights a piece of cake, not to mention added security it provides through password expiry and password history, the customization level it permits, the fact that it runs on any MySQL 5.0 or later and it's easily deployable on any official MySQL binary, platform independent.
More information here: http://www.securich.com/about.html.

For MySQL University sessions, point your …

I've table contains text column and its charset is latin1, and i can store Arabic text ( and non English character) in this column and retrieve it, i don't know how is it?

So how is that? and why I need utf8?

CREATE TABLE `post` ( `postid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `threadid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `parentid` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `

If you have enjoyed my blog postings about MySQL Cluster please come to the MySQL Cluster tutorial at the 2010 O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo.  I shall be giving this tutorial along with my colleagues Geert Vanderkelen and Andrew Morgan.

The outline of this tutorial is as follows:

"This tutorial aims to guide normal MySQL users and DBAs into the world of MySQL Cluster. From installing and configuring to creating your first clustered table and finally node failure handling. At the end of the session you’ll will be the proud owner of a full blown, tiny MySQL Cluster which you can show off at work. The data nodes will gently keep you lap warm when the …

This Thursday (February 25th, 13:00 UTC - way earlier than usual!), Darren Cassar will present Securich - Security Plugin for MySQL. According to Darren, the author of the plugin, Securich is an incredibly handy and versatile tool for managing user privileges on MySQL through the use of roles. It basically makes granting and revoking rights a piece of cake, not to mention added security it provides through password expiry and password history, the customization level it permits, the fact that it runs on any MySQL 5.0 or later and it's easily deployable on any official MySQL binary, platform independent.
More information here: http://www.securich.com/about.html.

For MySQL University sessions, point your …

This Thursday (February 25th, 13:00 UTC - way earlier than usual!), Darren Cassar will present Securich - Security Plugin for MySQL. According to Darren, the author of the plugin, Securich is an incredibly handy and versatile tool for managing user privileges on MySQL through the use of roles. It basically makes granting and revoking rights a piece of cake, not to mention added security it provides through password expiry and password history, the customization level it permits, the fact that it runs on any MySQL 5.0 or later and it's easily deployable on any official MySQL binary, platform independent.
More information here: http://www.securich.com/about.html.

For MySQL University sessions, point your …

Yesterday, I got some material being a speaker at this year’s big conference. Included was a discount code for “Friends of Speaker” which gets everyone a 25% discount on the conference pass.

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See you in Santa Clara!

I will be speaking at this year’s MySQL Conference, thanks to the conference team to approve my proposals. Like last year, I will deliver a full day tutorial to prepare anyone for the DBA certification which you can attend during the conference for a very discounted rate.

Yes, I’ve started yet another blog. You think I would learn.

This time it’s bout MySQL. The database we …

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The aims of this kind of blog post is simple – I want to help keep the masses informed as to what’s happening with MariaDB, as a whole. There is a community growing, and MariaDB is a community project, not necessarily a Monty Program Ab baby (and we’re clear on this distinction: think of it like Canonical/Ubuntu). So, think of it as such that I’m sharing the good news, and summarising what’s been happening, to save you time.

MariaDB added to the Debian/Ubuntu wishlists
One of MariaDB’s goals is that it should be easily available for download. While we provide binaries and source at the MariaDB download page, we would love to see the binaries sitting in Linux distributions. So it is definitely good to see that it is on …