The Meetup.com folks have created a lot of unnecessary confusion lately. Their rejection of sponsorship money from Sun and MySQL has caused many of their MySQL user groups to scramble. The North Texas MySQL Meetup became North Texas MySQL Users Group and we though all was done. Well, no. Meetup.com sent out 'do not let this group die' emails that caused a flurry a messages to flood my email.

The next meeting of the North Texas MySQL Users Group will Monday August 3rd (We are taking July off) at 7:00PM in Suite 700, 16000 Dallas Tollway, Dallas TX. The presentation will be MySQL Basics -- how to install, configure, and start using MySQL

So we will meet up without Meetup.com!

Need more confidence in comparing and synchronizing schemas? Find where the secret lies.

Read the updated article “The Basics of Qualitative Schema Comparison” and do it yourself.

In the article:

• Convenient Setting Up of Comparison Parameters
• Easy Handling of Schema Differences
• Safe Schemas Synchronization

Moreover, learn how to compare a schema and a database project, understand the compared results, reduce time ..

In one of my task I wanted to get the count of upper/lower char from a string but noticed that the string function provided in MySQL couldn't get me that.. and also at the moment it seems that the regex function in MySQL can match only and the matched stats cannot be captured nor returned.

I know 2 liner code in any scripting language can perform this tasks very well.


DELIMITER $$

DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS `test`.`uGetLowerUpperCharCount`$$

CREATE FUNCTION `uGetLowerUpperCharCount`(prm_string varchar(250)) RETURNS varchar(250) CHARSET latin1
BEGIN
DECLARE strPos INT default 1;
DECLARE strUpperLen INT default 0;
DECLARE strLowerLen INT default 0;
DECLARE strNonAlphaLen INT default 0;
WHILE strPos <= LENGTH(prm_string) DO IF ASCII(SUBSTRING(prm_string,strPos ,1)) >= 65 AND ASCII(SUBSTRING(prm_string,strPos ,1)) <=90 THEN SET …

This is what’s happening at the moment. 5.1 tree doesn’t pass the tests, both Sun and Monty Program fix that, and the fixes are different. Here is a Valgrind warning which was fixed twice: my fix my fix (correct link) made the involved mysys function to do what its name implies while Alfranio’s fix changed the replication code not to call that function anymore.

Besides the Valgrind warning, we observe failures for rpl_trigger.test and …

There is a raft of new Tungsten open source builds available for your replication and clustering pleasure. Over the last couple of days we uploaded new binary builds for Tungsten Replicator, Tungsten Connector, Tungsten Monitor, and Tungsten SQL Router. These contain the features described in my previous blog article, including even more bug fixes ( …

This isn’t news anymore - it has been over a month - but it would be odd not to mention this all, so here it goes: at the start of May I’ve left Sun Microsystems and joined Monty’s company.

The setup at Monty Program AB is quite similar - we have an IRC channel (#maria on FreeNode), a mailing list, bazaar trees on launchpad, Worklog and a Buildbot installation. It’s actually more open than at Sun/MySQL. At Sun, everyone is on internal IRC, external public can only see a subset of Worklog (the biggest problem with it is that it’s not possible to subscribe to …

Seen in #maatkit on Freenode: I never realized just how terrible recovering MyISAM from a crash can be Sad but true – it can be pretty painful. This is one of the reasons I pretty much recommend InnoDB (okay, okay, XtraDB) for most data unless it’s read-only.

Hi again!

Just a moment ago, I read this post by Peter Gulutzan. In this post, Peter explains a little trick that allows you to capture the SQL state in a variable whenever an error occurs in your MySQL stored routine code.MySQL CONDITIONs and HANDLERsFor the uninitiated: in MySQL stored routines, you can declare HANDLERs which are pieces of code that are executed only in case a particular CONDITION occurs. This device serves the same purpose …

If you receive a 1045 error, you may need to reset your password.  Here are the official instructions for resetting the password: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/resetting-permissions.html

If you find these instructions confusing, here’s another method.  

1.  Find the my.ini file (my.cnf for linux).  On windows, the my.ini file is typically in your install directory: c:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\my.ini   Open the file with notepad (or any text editor) and add the following entry under the [mysqld] section:

skip-grant-tables

Then, save the file and restart the MySQL service.  This has disabled the grant tables so you should be able to log into mysql without any password ( no more 1045 errors ).  Now, we need to reset the password.  

2.  Log …