MySQL Workbench Mac support has been requested from our community for a very long time. We got several emails and comments on the web and IRC channel that Workbench is the only tool why a lot of people are still running a VMware Fusion or Parallels session with Windows.

Therefore we are very happy about the recent release of WB 5.1 Beta1 which is the first release that is available on our three main platforms, Windows, Mac & Linux.

Those who have been giving MySQL Workbench 5.1 Beta1 on Mac OS X a try may have noticed the huge speed gain, compared to the Windows version, especially when working with bigger models. We even got complaints why we have “slowed down” the Windows version but this is simply due to the GUI hardware acceleration support available on the Mac, as well as on Linux systems.

So for the moment (until we finally get to re-enable full OpenGL support) using the Mac version is the new benchmark of model …

I’m pleased to announce three Gearman releases today! They are:

• Gearman C Server and Library - This includes changes to support new part of the protocol, a new Gearman command line tool, and a few other bug fixes and cleanup. Note: This now installs ‘gearmand’ into your preferred ’sbin’ directory, so if you are upgrading be sure to remove the old one from ‘bin’
• Gearman PHP Extension - This is a brand new PHP extension that wraps the C library to provide PHP with a faster client and worker interface. See the README file and the exampes directory for instructions and how to use it.
• Gearman MySQL UDF - New version of …

(Or the perils of working at home too much)

I was out of town for Marten's going away party so I decide to put together a brief video recalling what it was like to work with Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL for the last 5+ years.  Inspired by Joaquin Phoenix, or perhaps it was the Unambomber, it came out a bit weird.  But what the heck.

Marten, it just won't be the same without you.  Thank you for your leadership and the confidence you bestowed in those who worked for you.  Confidence enough to pay …

This morning I woke up to an IM of "Just how many patches do you all take?"

I suspect the question was asked because of Masood's post about contributions for MySQL.

Looking at yesterday's commits I see that we took in contributions from four people. There were 26 patches in total from those four people, and of those we had to correct two of the patches. One of those people comes from a team of three at one company who are working fulltime on Drizzle at the moment in order to get their code released.

Only one actual paid for by Sun employee committed anything yesterday :)

Which reminds me that I need to get back to hacking, the global locks around @variables are not going to fix themselves :)

More fun numbers:

Last month?

47 contributors according to …

The open source coderati announced a new database today called “Monsoon”.  Norm “Al” Modelle said much effort was spent by the team so it can handle internet sized floods of data.  He expected it to have the licensing of PostgreSQL, the multi-engine support of MySQL, the functionality of Oracle, the ease of use of MS SQL Server, and the massively parallel scalability of DB2.

Not to be outdone, Computer Dilettantes (CD) also announced a new database, the oddly named “Mud Puddle”. Eye Samme, the Executive VP in charge of databases we intend to milk for support revenue, said he knows the customer is being squeezed by licensing costs in these hard times.  So CD spent considerable effort designing a real time application that constantly analyzes the customer’s use of the database.  It then notifies the sales force how they can maximize revenue extraction from the customer. He said the database …

Today I enjoyed YouTube (upside down movies of upside-down actions, brilliant!) and Wikipedia (always real stories) front page appearances. I also enjoyed this chat in #postgresql:

[12:25]  <TommyG> hehe, nice april 1st at http://www.postgresql.fr/
[12:25]  <johto> :D
[12:27]  <davidfetter> heh
[12:29]  <AlexB> Cute.
[12:29]  <domas> omg, so funny!
[12:29]  <CaT[t2]> best april fools so far tbh :)
[12:31]  <mst> we just had somebody on irc.perl.org miss it entirely
[12:31]  <mst> I'm currently trying to sell him a bridge.
[12:31]  <CaT[t2]> go for it. you could gett rich :)

OK, my “so funny” there was well hidden sarcasm. That site had a big warning, kind of “could not connect to mysql socket, could not find mysql socket, mysql fail”. See, for PG people it is fun to say “mysql can fail!”. Now, what made it much funnier to people outside of PG community – for past few hours the …

On early Tuesday morning, I made a quick trip to Paris, France, to attend and speak at the Solutions Linux / Open Source 2009 Conference. I've never been to this conference before and was quite surprised about its size - it's actually the largest Open Source event in France and it reminded me a lot of LinuxTag in Germany. Many well-known vendors (e.g. Sun, Novell, Canonical, Bull, etc.) were exhibiting. The also was a large "DotOrg" section for various Open Source projects and I was very happy to see that LeMUG.fr, the official MySQL User Group of France, had a table there, too! A big Thank You goes to Pascal Borghino, who manned that table on his own most of the time and answered questions about MySQL. I …

I am pleased to announce a cloud storage version of the PBMS engine.

What I have created is a version of PBMS that stores the BLOB data in a cloud and when a request for the data comes in the client is sent a redirect to get the BLOB directly from the cloud. The BLOB reference tracking and metadata is handled the same as before in that they are stored in the BLOB record in the repository but the actual BLOB is stored somewhere else.

This has several advantages over storing the BLOB in the repository record:

1. It reduces the disk storage requirement of the database server’s machine.
2. It reduces the bandwidth requirement of the database server’s machine.

The beauty of it is that the client application doesn’t need to know anything about the cloud …

As a fitting posting for April 1, here's a video that I put together to commemorate Marten Mickos, CEO of MySQL who is leaving Sun today. It was my pleasure to work with Marten for more than five years at MySQL. He was truly a unique CEO; he followed Drucker's rules and came up with new innovative ideas that we put into action.

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