I really like the idea of Planet MySQL. Lots of good information in one place, for reference and for news and what have you not. But why, in heavens name, can I not search?

It's not that I cannot use Google, if needed (and if you do, search for site:http://planet.mysql.com, not for http://www.planet.mysql.com, although both URLs gets you to Planet MySQL, the latter will find.. Nothing (the first is the "real" URL also).

Maybe, if I could ask for something more, would it be possible to have a means of categorizing all the posts, at times, there is just too much stuff going on. I don't think anyone can keep up with and read all the posts. Even myself I blog on different aspects of MySQL and OSS. This would surely add a level of organization. How this would work, I don't know for sure, but it would be nice.

And also, maybe just a means of looking at the blog overview in some different ways, like showing …

In the wake of Meetup.com changing their sponsorship agreements, Technocation, Inc., an international not-for-profit group, has set up a fund for user group sponsorships. You can use the button below to donate any amount of money in US funds via PayPal:

(all monies sent through that button will be earmarked as a directed donation to the “User Group Fund”. In the interest of not cluttering up this blog post with a Donate button for each currency, you can use PayPal to send funds in *any* currency to “donate@technocation.org”. Just be sure to specify if you want the money to go to specifically to the User Group Fund.*)

Note that meetup.com’s fees are $144 per year ($12 per month).

Four years ago, MySQL and Meetup.com entered into an agreement. I have no idea of the details of this sponsorship, though from reading in between the lines, I believe the sponsorship was an in-kind sponsorship — that is, …

If you can't join us tonight for the Meetup event in London, don't
worry, I am sure you will find lots of info and comments on Twitter.

The official tag is #mysqlldn

I recent visit with old Brisbane friend HiTCHO which I met at the Brisbane MySQL Users Group in 2005, has lead to this cool list of some hardware and software technologies he used that I am now considering or have already implemented or purchased.

Software

1. xmarks.com - Bookmark-Powered Web Discovery
2. Pulse - Smart Pen
3. Quicksilver Mac windows manager
4. MailPlane - Brings Gmail to your Mac desktop
5. Evernote - Remember Everything, with Firefox plugin and iPhone App
6. …

Early on in the MySQL 5.4 development we tried out the
impact of the Google SMP patch and the Google IO patch.
At first we wanted to see which of the patches that
made most of an impact. The Google patches in MySQL 5.4
have 3 components at least that impact the performance.
1) Replace InnoDB memory manager by a malloc variant
2) Replace InnoDB RW-lock implementation
3) Make InnoDB use more IO threads

When disabling the InnoDB one opens up for a whole array
of potential candidates for malloc. Our work concluded
that tcmalloc behaved best on Linux and mtmalloc was
best on Solaris, see blog posts on Solaris below.

Malloc on Solaris investigation

Battle of the …

This alliance is an excellent step, showing the maturity, breadth and depth of expertise for MySQL related services! Of course Open Query is an active early member, with our training and subscription services, and initiatives like the OurDelta builds project.

Kudos to MontyW and PeterZ for driving this further while at the MySQL Conference last month.

This is about the ending of the sponsorship of the mysql.meetup.com user groups by Sun/MySQL and their suggested move to Facebook.

If people want to move to Facebook, that’s fine. For those who want to stay but don’t have the local funding, I have an offer for you. Contact Open Query, and we’ll sponsor your group for the coming months. This is not open-ended, I think a more permanent solution is important (moving, sponsorship, whatever) but I want to make the effort for the community to prevent any groups from disappearing now just because of this.

I was the one who originally set up the agreement with meetup.com when they first started charging for meetups (and it turned out to be a very good business model for them!). When that change was announced, quite a few meetup organisers were going to quit. The …

Monty Program Ab and Percona today launched the Open Database Alliance.

You can find the press release about it here.

This may be one of the most important steps in the history of MySQL and MariaDB.

Here follows my initial vision of the Open Database Alliance. Note that things may change slightly when we start defining the rules of the Alliance together with the Alliance members!

The Alliance will be a center and provide infrastructure for companies and individuals to develop, collaborate and do business around open source databases with MariaDB/MySQL as our initial …

Hi all,

Today I'll be write more about my experiences with Amazon Web Services. Before I continue, I'd like to provide some background information.

I signed up for Amazon Web Services. I used the Fedora LAMP AMI to create a server instance. The main reason for choosing this AMI was its inclusion of MySQL and Apache, a nice little package indeed. I ran into a few problems at first. Because I am based in Europe, I am allowed to use only the EU-West region, and the default in the US-East region. The drop down list is rather small, and i took a couple of unsuccessful instances to figure out that this was the problem. When I say "unsuccessful instances," I mean that the nothing appeared in the browser when I copied the public DNS to the browser's address bar. I attached an EBS volume to the server instance and it was OK.

Now for more on the command line.

I spent a lot of time messing around with the commands in the …

Hi all,

Today I'll be write more about my experiences with Amazon Web Services. Before I continue, I'd like to provide some background information.

I signed up for Amazon Web Services. I used the Fedora LAMP AMI to create a server instance. The main reason for choosing this AMI was its inclusion of MySQL and Apache, a nice little package indeed. I ran into a few problems at first. Because I am based in Europe, I am allowed to use only the EU-West region, and the default in the US-East region. The drop down list is rather small, and i took a couple of unsuccessful instances to figure out that this was the problem. When I say "unsuccessful instances," I mean that the nothing appeared in the browser when I copied the public DNS to the browser's address bar. I attached an EBS volume to the server instance and it was OK.

Now for more on the command line.

I spent a lot of time messing around with the commands in the …