MySQL Connector/C++ is GA. It features virtually everything needed by the two "internal customers" MySQL Workbench and Connector/OpenOffice.org. Based on internal test results and bug inflow, the stability is quite reasonable for a 1.0.5. It is overdue to move the development discussion on the mailing list and to ask: what do you want for 1.1, 1.5, 2.0?

At least two users have already proposed changes. Matthias Brantner has filed Connector/C++ bug report #3 - a feature request. Christian Koch has spotted my earlier mailing list posting already and replied. …

It is obvious thing for me, but I just figured out it may be not common understanding. Xtrabackup is also can be used (not only can, but we actually use it this way) to clone one slave to another, or just setup new slave from the master. And it is done in almost non-blocking way ( true for InnoDB setups) for cloned server. Here is command

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1. innobackupex-1.5.1 --stream=tar /tmp/--slave-info | ssh user@DESTSERVER "tar xfzi - -C /DESTDIR"

When it finished on destination server you run

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1. innobackupex-1.5.1 --apply-log --use-memory=2G  /DESTDIR

And you have ready database directory, just copy my.cnf from original …

The Oracle users Collaborate 09 was an absolutely fantastic technical conference. The presentations were exceptional in their quality. This conference was invaluable for networking and the discussions with Oracle user industry leaders from around the world. The discussions, insights and perceptions that were discussed every night were in my opinion even more valuable that the technical

Kontrollkit has been updated and has a new script for optimizing your database schemas. Some of the cnf files have been updated, some of the other files have had link corrections. Overall, a nice update. You can find the download here: http://kontrollsoft.com/software-downloads

In the past I have taken a somewhat neutral stance on the non-Free nature of the MySQL documentation, but after the recent discussion about it I’ve reconsidered. I have changed my position; now I see the restrictions on the documentation as a serious problem for the community and partner ecosystem. The arguments I’ve heard in favor of keeping the documentation non-Free do not hold up well when you shine a bright light on them, in my opinion.

As others wrote, or as you can read on php.net or in my twitter feed we've released the second, long awaited, release candidate of PHP 5.3.0.

5.3 is  rather big release including support for namespaces, closures, phar archives, internatioalization support via the new intl extension, improved SQLite support, mysqlnd as backend for the MySQL exensions, impressive performance improvements, ... and tons of other bigger and minor things.

Even though this server is running 5.3 already it's not suggested to be used in production evironments, yet but I'd really like to encourage everybody to test it and give feedback! I'm also interested in positive feedback, not …

We have started a new project wiki for MySQL Connector/Net.  It’s a little light in content right now but should grow rapidly.  It can be found here.  Please let us know what we can do better.

If there's a site that exemplifies explosive growth, it has to be Twitter. It seems like everywhere you look, someone is Tweeting, or talking about Tweeting, or Tweeting about Tweeting. Keeping the site responsive under that type of increase is no easy job, but it's one that John Adams has to deal with every day, working in Twitter Operations. He'll be talking about that work at O'Reilly's Velocity Conference, in a session entitled Fixing Twitter: Improving the Performance and Scalability of the World's Most Popular Micro-blogging Site, and he spent some time with us to talk about what is involved in keeping the site alive.

James Turner: Can you start by describing the platforms and technologies that make Twitter run …

If you are a facebook user, please be aware that mygener.im virus is spreading quickly on facebook. From what I have seen online so far, it seems to redirect to a site which probably is stealing data from you computer and/or installing trojans. Initially it looks like this site allows to create generation tree and looks like a legit domain. This is being spread via messages to you from other friends of yours who are “infected”.

One of the things you can do to prevent getting “infected” is to not click on any links on facebook. Even if it comes from friends you trust.  It would also be a good idea to arm your self with the best virus protection software.  If you do click on a link, make sure you don’t enter any login/passwords  on any sites you end up on.

Here is an article on eHow which talks about avoiding the virus:  …