I was a leader in the Oracle community who joined MySQL two years ago to learn more about the open source world.  The two years at MySQL were fantastic.   The extraordinary camaraderie, spirit and energy of the company was unbelievable.  I worked with some fantastic people and made a number of life time friends. On Monday I become a full time employee of Oracle, so I've come full cycle.  

On the front cover of MySQL Administrator’s Bible is a sentence that reads:

“The book you need to succeed!”

I must say, I do agree. Authored by two very experienced DBAs, Sheeri Cabral and Keith Murphy,
they’ve combined their talents to cover what you really need to know to
succeed. This book is very versatile. If you’re new to MySQL, or
experienced in another database and have to start administrating MySQL,
you need this book. I can honestly say, even if you have years of MySQL
experience, you will learn something new. I did. Divided into four
parts, …

On the front cover of MySQL Administrator’s Bible is a sentence that reads:

“The book you need to succeed!”

I must say, I do agree. Authored by two very experienced DBAs, Sheeri Cabral and Keith Murphy,
they’ve combined their talents to cover what you really need to know to
succeed. This book is very versatile. If you’re new to MySQL, or
experienced in another database and have to start administrating MySQL,
you need this book. I can honestly say, even if you have years of MySQL
experience, you will learn something new. I did. Divided into four
parts, …

Today I’ve read the following email on the mailing list of Sydney Oracle Meetup. I thought that this question is asked many times in attempt to find a silver bullet to learning Oracle so I wanted to publish my reply here on the blog, especially, that I’m a firm believer in one silver bullet that exists — there are no silver bullets.

Hi everybody,

My name is Sebastian and I’m new in the group. Yesterday I arrived late because I had a problem at work at the very last minute. However I found the meeting super interesting.

I’d like to see if someone could give me some piece of advise… I have ZERO experience with Oracle. I’m a Software Engineer and I’ve been working for more than 7 years in development (open source technologies basically). When it comes to DBs, I …

So now that we have established some decent contact between VFP and MYSQL it is time to transfer as much as possible from the VFP Database into the MYSQL Schema. Being a long time believer that making a plan can keep you out of trouble I laid out the following steps for that task

• Transfer Table Structures
• Set up Indexes
• Set up foreign keys

So lets look at each step more closely

Transfer Table Structures

Granted we could sit down and take a printout of all the structures and then use Workbench or something like it and start setting up the tables. But being faced with having to do that with close to 100 tables some of which having 40 or so fields this appeared like a daunting task. So I took a look to see how much could be optimized. Tables In MYSQL are created by using the CREATE TABLE ….. syntax which is pretty straight forward. Granted there are some VFP …

Dave Edwards has offered me to write this week's Log Buffer, and I couldn't help but jump at the opportunity. I'll dive straight into it.
OracleI'll start with Oracle, the dust of the Sun acquisition has settled, so maybe it's time to return our attention to the regular issues.

Lets start with Hemant Chitale's Common Error series and his Some Common Errors - 2 - NOLOGGING as a Hint explaining what to expect from NOLOGGING. Kamran Agayev offers us an insight into Hemant's personality with his Exclusive Interview with Hemant K Chitale. My favorite quote is:

Do you refer to the documentation? And how often does …

Gerry Narvaja has published the 178th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs.

LB is always looking for contributors, so if you’d like to publish an edition of your own, drop a line to the Log Buffer coordinator. It’s an excellent way to put your stamp on the database blogosphere.

Here is Gerry Narvaja’s Log Buffer #178.

Hi!

In 2001, a week after 9/11, I was in Rhode Island at the second open source database conference. I had been presenting two papers, one on the stored procedure system I had developed at Andover.net for MySQL, and another on "Data Blades" that I had written for MySQL just a couple of years ago. Monty and David where there and we spent a bunch of time talking about MySQL. Monty offered me a job that weekend, which I politely declined. I was happy hacking on MySQL and maintaining my little personal fork I used for the websites I was running. While I thought that they had a good idea, I certainly didn't think it was a company, and I certainly didn't want to risk my career at it.

In 2003 David approached me at the first MySQL Conference again about working for MySQL. He let slip the SAP announcement and the news that they had gotten a major round of funding. I was still very skeptical. He spent seven hours in the hallway …

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I went to Microsoft techdays : huge 17000 visitors, 300 confs , .... C#, F#, Sqlserver 2008, cloud ...
I took part to the "Android Developer Labs World Tour" in a place called "La cantine" ( a french cafe + some chairs)
A few geeks there, a very nice event . Each participant went back home with a nexus one !
I delivered a MySQL and java pres. I had fun demoing JPA, JSF, RestFull web services on Glassfish.
But what I will definitely remember about this week is this news :
"Ken Jacobs leaving Oracle"
You will be missed by Oracle
You will be missed by MySQL community
You have been a key people of Oracle helping design the product that made all the rest possible for Oracle. You have always played fair with the MySQL community. In my previous life at Oracle I remember 7.0, 7.1 , 8.0, 8i, 9i, 10g, 11g .... You sometimes came to Paris and gave us not just the lengthy list of new functionalities but the …