It will soon be November and we'll be queuing up to register for the Percona Live conference once again. I spoke with some of this year's Percona Live London committee we all agreed that it would be great to arrange a community dinner if there was a community interest. In the past years of the PLUK conference there has not been a community event to attend in order to discuss sessions and make new friends. I for one love the `Pythian-arranged Community Dinner` at Pedro's that occurs annually in Santa Clara during the Percona Live Conference. I know that there are many attendees that do London and CA each year and wager that they'd agree that it's a great event. So lets have it... please r.s.v.p here and if the numbers are good enough we'll schedule something the evening of the tutorials. Please let me know of your interest in the comments below. Thanks :D
It was just a few days ago that we announced, with celebratory enthusiasm, Tungsten Replicator 2.1.1, and today we are at it again, with Tungsten Replicator 2.1.2.
What happened? In a surfeit of overconfidence, we released Tungsten 2.1.1, with faith on the test suite and its result. The faith was justified, as the test suite was able to catch any known problem and regression. The overconfidence was unjustified, because, due to a series of unfortunate events, some sections of the test suite were accidentally disabled, and the regression that was lurking in the dark was not caught.
Therefore, instead of having a quiet post-release week-end, the whole team has worked round the clock to plug the holes. There …
[Read more]So just a quick note to express how great it felt to get the first MySQL Meetup in the UK's Bristol done. We had great enthusiastic attendees bringing their own curiosity about the product. We spent a couple of hours in conversation about a broad range of MySQL related topics. Amongst the points discussed were; MySQL Connect, Percona Live London, InnoDB vs. MyISAM, replication, query tuning and Ben gave a demo on pt-query-digest and pt-visual-explain. Although we touched many aspects it was really a primer for what we would like to achieve going forward. We're planning content and dates for the next meetup so keep an eye on the meetup page. I want to express that all comers are welcome whether you're fantastically experienced or a curious noob there's place for you. The group has already made many friends such as TomD from Percona, Stoker from Oracle and Marco from Pythian. …
[Read more]Are you speaking at MySQL Connect? Attending the conference? Resources such as sample e-mail copies, banners and buttons are at your disposal in our attendee toolkit. Some examples below:
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Dear MySQL users,
MySQL Connector/C 6.1.1, a new version of the C API for
client/server communication for the MySQL database management
system, has been released. This version of Connector/C provides
full support for MySQL 5.6 protocol. Connector/C is compatible
with the client libraries (libmysql).
It includes all the features in the MySQL client library shipped
with MySQL servers 5.6 as well as prior versions. You can
recompile existing code linked with Connector/C 6.1.0 without any
code changes. You can use Connector/C to run and build client
applications which communicate with MySQL server versions from
4.1 to 5.6 without a need to do a complete server installation.
The release is now available in source and binary form for a
number of platforms from our download pages at
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/c/
For information on installing, please see the documentation at …
MySQL Connector/J 5.1.26, a maintenance release of the production
5.1 branch has been released. Connector/J is the Type-IV
pure-Java JDBC driver for MySQL. Version 5.1.26 is suitable for
use with many MySQL server versions, including 4.1, 5.0, 5.1,
5.4, 5.5 and 5.6. It is already available for download on the My
Oracle Support (MOS) website. The eDelivery download will be
available on it's own regular schedule. As always, we recommend
that you check the "CHANGES" file in the download archive to be
aware of changes in behavior that might affect your
application.
MySQL Connector/J 5.1.26 includes the following general bug fixes
and improvements, also available in more detail here
Functionality Added or Changed:
- Added a toString() method to the PreparedStatementWrapper class to help debug prepared …
The Early Bird rate for MySQL Connect has been extended for two weeks.
Register by August 2 to save US$500 over the onsite
price!
MySQL Connect will be held on September 21 - 23 in San Francisco, California. The conference will start on Saturday with "The State of The Dolphin" keynote presented by Oracle's Chief Corporate Architect, Edward Screven, and Vice President of MySQL Engineering, Tomas Ulin, followed by a panel to discuss "Current MySQL Usage Models and Future Developments", with panelists from renowned web properties including Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Paypal. …
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Some time ago, MySQL Forge went offline.
As part of the Forge dismissal operations, I got a backup of my
snippets from the MySQL community team, and I have been lazily
looking around for an alternative place where to put them.
I found such a place: Github
GIST
Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with others.
All gists are git repositories, so they are automatically
versioned, forkable and usable as a git
repository.
Out of my 25 snippets, these are the ones that still look useful
(at least, people have been asking me about those).
The MySQL
Sandbox project has been around for 8 years, and it has
gained considerable attention from the community. I have seen it
mentioned in books and articles, used in other projects, and
widely adopted by testers and bug reporters.
I have used it for more than testing, and it has saved me many
hours of labor by allowing me to create database servers in a few
seconds.
Yet, I have gathered a long list of grievance about it, both from
my own experience and from other users feedback. Here goes.
- MySQL Sandbox is not easy to install. For people used to install Perl modules, it feels natural. For experienced Perl users, installing it in user space without root access is …
Dave Stokes has just written that MySQL is Looking for
External Contributions. The first comments on that were
negative, saying that forcing developers to sign a contributor
agreement is not friendly, and that MySQL developers don't play
well with external contributors.
To be fair, it is not Oracle that has an unfriendly policy about
contributions. It was already like this with MySQL AB, and the
reason is simply that the company wants to maintain ownership of
the code, so that it will be able to sell dual licensing
agreements.
I may not like it, but licensing was still a consistent part of
the business when I left Oracle, and I assume it still is. Since
this “feature” helps paying the developers that create open
source software, I believe it is a reasonable trade-off.
Besides, also …