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Wikis and Blogs have been critical to the success of GlassFish. I'm always interested in other tools that leverage self-publishing and social networks and our MySQL relatives just announced the MySQL Librarian, a tool very similar to Slynkr but with additional refinements... and strongly tied to the MySQL community - a tie that I think that is what is missing in SDN Share. |
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[Read more]The MySQL Librarian is a collection of community-generated and cross referenced content related to MySQL. It's a place where the community, collaboratively, builds and maintains MySQL content.
I have had a wish for a few years. I wanted to find a way to put together the valuable information that the community produces about MySQL, a way that would let me easily find the interesting content that I may have missed when on vacation, or when busy with a conference, a company meeting, or a long stream of coding.
That wish started to take shape last year, when I was traveling with Dups during the East Coast tour. I drove, he took notes. He drove, I took more notes. During meals and walking breaks we discussed and refined the idea. When we went back home, a plan was ready. Dups started coding in January.
At first, his changes were completely invisible. He was refactoring the Planet MySQL code to integrate it with the advanced features that had been developed for the main site. After a series of secondary changes, there came the substantial one. The voting …
[Read more]The Percona team has kept on expanding. We are very pleased to announce the addition of Morgan Tocker and Matt Yonkovit!
Morgan has been with us for a while. Before joining Percona, Morgan worked as a Technical Instructor for MySQL (and then Sun Microsystems) in Canada where he taught courses on High Availability, Performance Tuning and Database …
[Read more]The MySQL 5.4 “Azalea” version was scheduled for a feature freeze last week. Thus it’s getting clearer what will come with the next milestone in a few months. The following is not official information but it is what I can actually see.
What’s not in
Some features, which I expected and predicted would be in, are
not in.
* WL#2360 Performance Schema. We’re now in the fifth month of the
first code review.
* WL#2649 Number-to-string conversions. We’re still using
VARBINARY a lot.
* WL#1326, WL#2377 GIS
* WL#4803 Pluggable Query Cache module
* WL#1213 Supplementary Characters. This feature works great but
could disrupt upgrades.
I apologize if I got anyone’s hopes up. The tasks are not cancelled and I’m hopeful about the next milestone releases.
What’s in
BACKUP and RESTORE are in, provided you start the server with mysqld –new. Some people say the …
[Read more]I’ll be talking about the latest features in Gearman along with covering a few Gearman-powered applications tomorrow, July 14th, at 10AM Pacific time. Follow this link for details on how to sign up: Gearman: New Features and Applications for Distributed Job Queuing
Brian Aker and I will also be talking about Gearman at the PostgreSQL pgDay San Jose on Sunday, July 19th, and at OSCON the week after. See the Gearman presentations page for more information.
It may be tested again! Reason for the new version are two new
releases of the main components of XAMPP: PHP and MySQL.
New in the XAMPP versions: MySQL (5.1.36), PHP (5.3.0), and
phpMyAdmin (3.2.0.1).
Go to XAMPP BETA download area
XAMPP BETA versions are always for testing purposes only. There
will be no upgrade packages from and to beta versions. To all
testers: Many thanks in advance!!
Recently new performance builds were made by our MySQL Team, and it seems to me reaching now a new milestone with the build #45 - within this single build Mikael joined several previously tested performance builds showed a positive performance improvement. So, how well it's comparing now to the default 5.4 ?..
Here are my results obtained on M5000 (quad-cores)/ Solaris10 update7 and db_STRESS.
Solaris 10 update7
Special note about update7: I was pleasantly surprised the kernel locks issue was gone! CPU Spinlocks within a similar workload are devided by 4(!) - very positive improvement, and seems the things will be even better with update8!
Read-Only Workload
For my big surprise there was no difference (or very few) between …
[Read more]A couple of weeks ago I got an unhappy email from my web hosting provider telling me I was in violation of their Terms of Service. Of course I called them immediately and was told that there was a “phishing page” hidden in one of my web directories. My blog had been hacked, so I immediately started doing some house cleaning.
After the initial once over and deletion of any suspicious files I went looking for advice on how to “harden my installation”. Here’s what I found:
We had 12 projects, and by the time we’ve hit mid-terms, we’ve decided to cull 2 project so far, leaving us with 10 projects.
This year, the MySQL project can really divide itself into three groups – those hacking on MySQL, Drizzle, or phpMyAdmin. Next year, will we see others? I certainly hope so…
Drizzle – Padraig O’Sullivan is doing an excellent job at working on a new implementation of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA. Nathan Williams is doing great work at code cleanup for Drizzle, and making it conform to C++ standards. Jiangfeng Peng is hacking on batch nested loop join’s in Drizzle.
phpMyAdmin – Derek Schaefer is adding import improvements to phpMyAdmin, while Tomas Srnka is working on adding MySQL Replication support for phpMyAdmin (and impressing his mentor!). Zahra Naeem is working on change tracking of data/structures, and you’d expect some more work after the mid-term, once some problems are worked …
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