Coming to the Hyatt Santa Clara, for the MySQL Conference & Expo 2009? Beware, that this year, the in-room Internet just isn’t so peachy.

When you check in, there’s this option of a “Business Plan” that Hyatt sells you - USD$30, for free wired in-room Internet (a $12.95/day value), free breakfast (this includes 15% gratuity, so a $20+ value), a free bottle of water (yes, otherwise its $3.95), and all the local and long distance calls in the US that you’ll need (depending on what you do, YMMV). It seemed like a good deal.

Now, for the benefit of others, which has taken about four days for me to fix. When you’re on this plan, the Hyatt rebates your Internet within an hour or so of you signing up for the deal. This tells their ISP that you’re now not able to get access to anything else, but Port 80 and Port 443 access — yes, SMTP, IMAP, SSH, IRC and all …

The MySQL User Conference starts April 20 2009. Please come and see:

New Foreign Keys in 6.1, with Konstantin Osipov and Peter Gulutzan, Wednesday April 22, 15:05. Originally the speaker was going to be Dmitri Lenev, the main developer … but alas, he can’t make it. However, the project lead (Konstantin) and the architect (Peter) constitute the largest pool of expertise on this subject in the whole continent.

Character Sets, with Alexander Barkov and Peter Gulutzan, Wednesday April 22, 20:30. This is a Birds-of-a-Feather get-together, so it’s not a show, just a chance to get together with other people who care about (for example) collation, Unicode, SJIS. Mr Barkov has worked …

Open source in government. Sourcefire announces relationships with Symantec and Microsoft. EPL supercedes CPL. The cost and potential savings of open source. The origins of open source. IBM and Sun - back on? And more.

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# OStatic: Why Isn’t Open Source Even Considered at the U.S. State Government Level?

# Simon Phipps: Five Ideas To Get FOSS Into Governments.

# Sourcefire’s 3D system to be bundled as part of the Symantec Managed Security Services offering.

# Sourcefire has also announced a strategic relationship with Microsoft.

# The Eclipse Foundation has …

Relax, there are four weeks left to register for the MySQL Connector/C++ web seminar. The webinar is scheduled for May 20. Hurry, if you want to attend the MySQL Conference and Expo 2009 with all its sessions. If you had a stressful day, try gardening. Gardening does not require a garden as you can see.

About the webinar: MySQL Connector/C++ is the latest Connector for MySQL. It takes different approach compared to existing C++ drivers by following the JDBC specification in a way that makes sense in C++ world. JDBC is the Java standard for accessing Databases, which has been improved over the numerous Java releases. The JDBC interface is very well thought out. In this webinar you’ll learn: …

The .MOBI registry is giving us a last-minute promotion on .MOBI domain name creations. This lets us provide you with the extension for $11.00 (£5.2 or 7.5€) excluding VAT for A through D rates, which represents a 33% reduction in price over the usual rates.

The promotion is valid until May 31st 2009 and only concerns creations.

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We have just published Andrei's first version of the multi-threaded slave as a preview release.

Currently, the master produce a load by concurrent multiple client connections while the single slave thread execute replication events one by one. In some scenarios, this causes the slave to lag behind the master.

With the multi-threaded slave work, the replication slave will scale on multi-core machines.

This is a very early preview with serious limitations. Even so, please feel free to try it out and let us know what you think.

http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/ReplicationFeatures/ParallelSlave

Relax, there are four weeks left to register for the MySQL Connector/C++ web seminar. The webinar is scheduled for May 20. Hurry, if you want to attend the MySQL Conference and Expo 2009 with all its sessions. If you had a stressful day, try gardening. Gardening does not require a garden as you can see.

About the webinar: MySQL Connector/C++ is the latest Connector for MySQL. It takes different approach compared to existing C++ drivers by following the JDBC specification in a way that makes sense in C++ world. JDBC is the Java standard for accessing Databases, which has been improved over the numerous Java releases. The JDBC interface is very well thought out. In this webinar you’ll learn: …

Barry, Vladimir and I (the entire PrimeBase dev team!) will be presenting next week at the MySQL User Conference and Expo.

We've got lots of cool stuff going on. Barry will tell you how PBMS can store your BLOBs in the clouds, Vladimir will be explaining what makes PBXT so fast, and I will be talking about the past, the present and the future...

Even if that all doesn't interest you, be sure to just drop by to say hi. We're friendly, really! :)

The PBXT Storage Engine: Meeting Future Challenges
Paul McCullagh
3:05pm - 3:50pm Tuesday, 04/21/2009
Ballroom B

BLOB Streaming: Efficient Reliable BLOB …

The Memcached Functions for MySQL are user-defined functions that I have written to use with MySQL that allow you to interact with one or more memcached servers from within MySQL. These allow you the ability to use MySQL as a one-stop-shop to obtain data both from MySQL (durable data) and memcached (cached, non-durable data). These functions also allow for not having to require using a particular client library such as Perl or PHP to use memcached.

Installation

1. You will need a working MySQL instance. I won’t tell you how to get this. You can figure it out. Your a smart person and wouldn’t be even reading this article if you didn’t have MySQL running, right?

2. memcached server. Many Linux distributions come with memcached pre-installed, but often the version is stale, old, yellowy. You want to be running at least 1.2.6. You can easily check by doing the following:

telnet localhost 11211
Trying ::1... …

What is open source, production-quality, supported by a large vibrant community, and comes with full enterprise support ? - GlassFish and MySQL.

Did you know that GlassFish ...

• is the only open-source Java EE 5 compliant Application Server
• can be used to deploy Rails, Grails, and Django applications
• has 13x better price/performance than Dell/HP, and therefore a much lower TCO
• has an easy-to-use and intuitive web-based administration console
• has enterprise features like clustering/high availability, .NET-interoperable Web services, ...

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