This is really cool. Rackspace is hiring people to work on Drizzle full-time for their cloud product, Mosso. Adrian Otto writes the Drizzle mailing list:

I was speaking with Eric Day at the developer conference, and I mentioned that Rackspace is wiling to employ full time developers for the specific purpose of furthering the Drizzle project’s mission. He suggested that I email you on this list becuase he expected there would be interest in this offer. If you work on the project now part time, and want to make it a full time job working exclusively on the Drizzle project, let me know. The Rackspcae Cloud believes …

Given the current state of the economy, here's a quick job plug for anyone interested and qualified.

At the Drizzle Developer Day on Friday, I got to meet Adrian Otto from Rackspace. Rackspace has a cloud offering (think Aamazon EC2) that's called Mosso and is willing to employ full time developers who spend all their time working on Drizzle.

Here's what he sent to the mailing list.

I was speaking with Eric Day at the developer conference, and I mentioned that Rackspace is wiling to employ full time developers for the specific purpose of furthering the Drizzle project's mission. He suggested that I email you on this list becuase he expected there would be interest in this offer. If you work on the project now part time, and want to make it a full time job …

Simple and short: Please do not screw things up. We like MySQL, millions of people like MySQL. Keep it alive and healthy and we’ll love you for it. That is all.

Introduction The following instructions will lay out an installation of MySQL on Solaris using the MySQL Optimal Configuration Architecture (MOCA) for someone knowledgeable in MySQL/Solaris administration. MOCA is a set of best practices I put together to lay out a guidelines for installing and configuring a MySQL database server. MOCA is designed for someone with experience with MySQL,

Peter wrote about this recently, but I don’t know if it was really clear what was going on. Point One: Sphinx can be contacted by the MySQL protocol. Not “as a MySQL storage engine.” Not “from MySQL.” It understands the MySQL protocol itself. So from the protocol point of view, the Sphinx search daemon can look just like a MySQL server. Point Two: Sphinx understands a SQL-like query language. Don’t be fooled.

MySQL has deep roots in open-source software development communities and code contributions to MySQL keep flowing in, being reviewed and integrated into the MySQL. 

During our BoF at the MySQL Conference and Expo, Lenz Grimmer talked about our work to make MySQL (even more) contributor friendly, with some more focused effort starting on February 1, 20091.

The desire to contribute code to MySQL remains as strong as ever as evidenced by this year's MySQL Conference and Expo, where I had an opportunity to speak with some contributors and partners who wish to contribute to MySQL. Of course, there are a lot of strong and varying opinions in this area.

As I said above, code has been contributed and absorbed in MySQL (according to either the MySQL …

MySQL has deep roots in open-source software development communities and code contributions to MySQL keep flowing in, being reviewed and integrated into the MySQL. 

During our BoF at the MySQL Conference and Expo, Lenz Grimmer talked about our work to make MySQL (even more) contributor friendly, with some more focused effort starting on February 1, 20091.

The desire to contribute code to MySQL remains as strong as ever as evidenced by this year's MySQL Conference and Expo, where I had an opportunity to speak with some contributors and partners who wish to contribute to MySQL. Of course, there are a lot of strong and varying opinions in this area.

As I said above, code has been contributed and absorbed in MySQL (according to either the MySQL …

After getting the http://jan.kneschke.de/2009/4/22/druckbetankung stuff working and discussing the idea with the replication team we figured out that my presented approach has a nice hack-value, but otherwise is perhaps a bit too complicated. The same result can be achieved by a more simplified approach:

• turn our input data into a RBR based base64-encoded BINLOG-stmt using binlog
• use the mysql client to push the data into the server

The BINLOG stmt is used by mysqlbinlog to pass the RBR-events through the mysql client to the mysql-server. Usually it wraps a FORMAT_DESCRIPTION_EVENT and the TABLE_MAP_EVENT and the *_ROWS_EVENTS. BUT … it can handle any binlog-event. Just try

After getting the Druckbetankung stuff working and discussing the idea with the replication team we figured out that my presented approach has a nice hack-value, but otherwise is perhaps a bit too complicated. The same result can be achieved by a more simplified approach:

• turn our input data into a RBR based base64-encoded BINLOG-stmt using binlog
• use the mysql client to push the data into the server

The BINLOG stmt is used by mysqlbinlog to pass the RBR-events through the mysql client to the mysql-server. Usually it wraps a FORMAT_DESCRIPTION_EVENT and the TABLE_MAP_EVENT and the *_ROWS_EVENTS. BUT ... it can handle any binlog-event. Just try

$ mysqlbinlog …

I went looking for the MySQL 5.4 documentation today, but alas I could not find it. In particular, I went looking for the list of changes between 5.1.34 and 5.4.1.

If 5.4.1 is beta then it should definitely have documentation, at least in beta form. This is especially true in light of the Sun MySQL conference keynote kind of dangling a carrot on a stick, as it were, with a question to the audience about opening the docs up under the GPL. The comments system also needs updated too. I think that if public comments are available on the web site, then those comments should have a rating system attached so that crappy, wrong and useless manual comments can easily be filtered. But I digress.

So, Sun, when are going to release all the MySQL documents under the GPL? Is it going to be in the MySQL 5.4 time frame, or in some far off hazy future? And why are there no 5.4 documents available online, when the binaries are already …