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There will be a webinar presented by Tomas Ulin (Director MySQL Server Technologies) and Matthew Keep (MySQL Cluster Product Management). The webinar covers:

• how MySQL Cluster achieves predictable and consistent real time performance
• how MySQL Cluster achieves continuous availability with sub-second fail-over, automated recovery and geographic replication
• how MySQL Cluster enables users to dynamically scale throughput and data capacity
• how to get started with MySQL Cluster

and I will be on the panel anwering your questions!

When: Wednesday 17th of June 2009, 0930PST/1230EST/1730GMT/1830CET/
See details and how to register here.

What if you could evaluate, deploy and maintain a Data Warehouse (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI) solution for up to 90% less than the cost of proprietary software? What if you can find a solution that has been adopted by customers in all industries and is technically sound and scalable? 

You can, with open source Data Warehousing from MySQL and Business Intelligence from Pentaho.

Join this webcast to find out about real world BI/DW deployment strategies that that offer you robust capabilities, yet with a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).  

The MySQL and Pentaho solution has been proven in diverse deployments, from small companies to large enterprises. The subscription support model aligns customer and vendor interests, lowering both your costs and project risks. Join this webcast and learn how to be successful in your BI/DW projects. We will show you how MySQL and Pentaho can easily provide a complete …

When I'm looking at a server, I often want to see the /etc/my.cnf file nicely formatted, and with comments stripped. This Perl one-liner will pretty-print the file:

PLAIN TEXT CODE:

1. perl -ne 'm/^([^#][^\s=]+)\s*(=.*|)/ && printf("%-35s%s\n", $1, $2)' /etc/my.cnf
2. [client]                           
3. port                               = 3306
4. socket                             = /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
5. [mysqld_safe]                     
6. socket      …

It is as little as 8 hours before the first barbecue of the PHP BBQ Tour starts in Munich today (Hirschgarten - change: restaurant not BBQ area!). "Registration" for Munich is still open, you can still find last-minute details and add your name at http://www.silberkind.de/dokuwiki/phpbbq.

Last Minute change for Munich due to rain: we meet at the Hirschgarten restaurant not at the BBQ area. A seat reservation has been made for Wendel/PHP. Same time as before: 19:00 CEST. Almost the same location!
 

The BBQ Tour is a one week trip through some german PHP meet ups. The trip starts on …

It is as little as 8 hours before the first barbecue of the PHP BBQ Tour starts in Munich today (Hirschgarten - change: restaurant not BBQ area!). "Registration" for Munich is still open, you can still find last-minute details and add your name at http://www.silberkind.de/dokuwiki/phpbbq.

Last Minute change for Munich due to rain: we meet at the Hirschgarten restaurant not at the BBQ area. A seat reservation has been made for Wendel/PHP. Same time as before: 19:00 CEST. Almost the same location!
 

The BBQ Tour is a one week trip through some german PHP meet ups. The trip starts on …

If you are using the following versions of MySQL Cluster:

MySQL Cluster 6.3.17 - SHOW TABLES can drop tables...
MySQL Cluster 6.3.18 - the above wasn't really fixed (fixed in 6.3.20)
MySQL Cluster 6.3.19 - the above wasn't really fixed (fixed in 6.3.20)
MySQL Cluster 6.3.21 - regression, pulled back because of this.

If you are on any of these versions - then upgrade!
The latest source and binary release is MySQL Cluster 6.3.24.

It is with much regret and after a long deliberation and consultation process that we have to announce that, after an epic run of almost 11 years in the era of MySQL 3.11 in the late 1990s, the MyComponents product has reached the end-of-life stage. Given Delphi's progressive slide in popularity, it is no longer economically viable for SciBit to maintain.

We will however continue to sell and support licenses for the current Delphi 2007 compatible version. As well as support (and even contribute) to any open source project born from this product should someone feel so inclined.

Sometime you may come across a situation wherein a stored procedure(in mycase it was uGetBussinessDays which was working perfectly until this morning is now throwing a Thread stack overrun error) when called throws Thread stack overrun error.

Typically the error message would look like:

Error Code : 1436
Thread stack overrun: 6444 bytes used of a 131072 byte stack, and 128000 bytes needed. Use 'mysqld -O thread_stack=#' to specify a bigger stack.


According to the MySQL manual "The default (192KB) is large enough for normal operation. If the thread stack size is too small, it limits the complexity of the SQL statements that the server can handle, the recursion depth of stored procedures, and other memory-consuming actions" .

To resolve this issue you need to increase the default value of parameter thread_stack (128 in my my-small.cnf) to something 258K in your MySQL …

What if you could evaluate, deploy and maintain a Data Warehouse (DW) and Business Intelligence (BI) solution for up to 90% less than the cost of proprietary software? What if you can find a solution that has been adopted by customers in all industries and is technically sound and scalable? 

You can, with open source Data Warehousing from MySQL and Business Intelligence from Pentaho.

Join this webcast to find out about real world BI/DW deployment strategies that that offer you robust capabilities, yet with a lower total cost of ownership (TCO).  

The MySQL and Pentaho solution has been proven in diverse deployments, from small companies to large enterprises. The subscription support model aligns customer and vendor interests, lowering both your costs and project risks. Join this webcast and learn how to be successful in your BI/DW projects. We will show you how MySQL and Pentaho can easily provide a complete …