I will give a talk about Connector/C++ (and mysqlnd in another slot) next week at the MySQL UC 2009. We had to fit the presentation in about 20 slides to be able to fit in the small timeframe of 45 mins. So far I have given only presentations of about 90 minutes, incl. the shoot me with your questions part. I rehearsed today, both talks. Everything seems fine and I will fit. So, if you are an ISV that uses MySQL and use C++ come to see my presentation, there is something to learn. If you are open source developer, who uses C++, come to the room and allow me to introduce MySQL Connector/C++ to you. I am sure you will never get back to libmysql and MySQL Connector/C 

Hurry up. Click here to read Giri Mandalika's article on MySQL Connection C++. He is using 1.0.4-beta for his tests and shows how simple it is to use the connector. It is all about developing in C++ for MySQL that became easier!

In an unexpected turn of events I am speaking at the 2009 MySQL Conference after all, filling in as a presenter for a Monday tutorial called Introduction to Data Modeling with MySQL Workbench.

In addition to the Monday workshop, we’ll be delivering a shortened tutorial version each day of the conference. Attendees get a complimentary one year subscription to the SE version of MySQL Workbench. You can register at http://dev.mysql.com/workbench/?page_id=206. Spaces are limited to 40 for each session, as of now space is available but you’ll want to register sooner than later.

What will be be covering? So far the lesson plan is shaping up as follows:

Introduction

- Who Are We?

- Who Are You?

- What is the Session About? …

A nice write up here: http://www.masterzen.fr/2009/04/13/introducing-mysql-snmp/ “It’s a Net-SNMP perl subagent that connects to your MySQL server, and reports various statistics (from show status or show innodb status, or even replication) through SNMP.”

This might find its way into Kontrollbase soon…

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz wrote a four-part blog posting a few weeks ago describing Sun's overall business model and how it makes money from open source. The basic idea is to go from adoption to innovation and then read more

Refining the Beekeeper model. Investment opportunities. Schooner, Gear6 and Virident line up memcached appliances. The launch of the Open Source Channel Alliance. Is source code necessary? And more.

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Of bees and trees
We noted last week that James Dixon, CTO of Pentaho, had updated his Beekeeper model for understanding the commercial-community relationships employed by vendors to engage with open source. Roberto Galoppini quickly followed up with some feedback, as did Tarus …

Sure, you've heard it before: [some company's logo] has a new MySQL backup tool that promises to solve all of your data recovery needs. The good news is most of these tools work pretty well. However, they tend to suffer from a similar set of limitations. Most require sophisticated infrastructures or complex setup and maintenance and can become a resource drain for some organizations. You're probably wondering, "Why can't someone build a fully automated MySQL backup solution that you can just turn on and forget?"

I am happy to say that the MySQL Developers at Sun are doing just that. In fact, a prototype will be demonstrated at the 2009 MySQL Users' Conference that will show the feasibility of a fully automated MySQL backup and recovery tool. It's being called the MySQL Time Machine and (with all due respect to all vendors with products of similar names) it allows you to recover your data using a datetime value. How cool is that? Even MySQL …

A nice write up here: http://www.masterzen.fr/2009/04/13/introducing-mysql-snmp/ “It’s a Net-SNMP perl subagent that connects to your MySQL server, and reports various statistics (from show status or show innodb status, or even replication) through SNMP.”

This might find its way into Kontrollbase soon…

I introduced Olio a little while ago as a toolkit to help web developers and deployers as well as performance/operations engineers. Olio includes a web2.0 application as well as the necessary software required to drive load against it. Today, we are showcasing the first major deployment of Olio on Sun's newest Intel Nehalem based systems - the SunFire X2270 and the SunFire X4270. We tested 10,000 concurrent users (with a database of 1 million users) using over 1TB of storage in the unstructured object store.

The diagram below shows the configuration we tested.

The Olio/PHP web application was deployed on two X2270 systems. Since these systems …

The MySQL Conference & Expo will be upon us in another week.  Kaj (pictured above top middle in an negative sauna) is putting together a great keynote panel on Cloud computing and there will be many sessions on performance tuning and optimization. The keynotes look to continue in the tradition of having very strong speakers, this year featuring presentations from Karen Padir who now runs the overall MySQL development organization, as well as Mark Callaghan from …