Hello, there! With another Ubuntu release, it has come the time to update our series of posts on how to install Oracle 11g on Ubuntu. If you’ve been following, we’ve been publishing updated howtos since Ubuntu 7.04:

• Installing Oracle 11g on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron LTS
• Installing Oracle 11g on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon
• Installing Oracle 11g on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

In fact, in this article I refer several times to previous posts regarding some configuration aspects and why I chose particular values. Also, note that this series of posts is a work in progress and we were able to improve this series with your help. So please do post comment below as …

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Open SQL Camp was a success.

It was hosted by Baron "Xaprb" Schwartz, who I learned is one of the few people I don't have to look down to look in the eye.

There were maybe 100 people over the whole the weekend, including the upper echalon of MySQL and other open source database hackers, as well as technical people from Infobright and Tokutek and PBXT.

There were people who quite literally flew in from the other side of the planet and from Europe.

It was good to see Monty Widenius, and to introduce him to the pleasure that is well made matcha.

Vadim Tkachenko's and Peter Zaitsev's presentation on the Percona patches was interesting and eye opening. The following random roundtable discussion between them, Brian Aker of Drizzle, and Arjen Lentz about the open source future of InnoDB was productive, in that it let to Percona moving their patch set development to Launchpad …

Thanks to Andrei (before he moved on to bigger and better things), we now have this in the nightly builds.



Take a look - yes, you're getting column names in the completion list when working with a string literal in PHP. And notice how it works with aliases...

It's a prototype, but it's a good start, and we expect to have something like this working for you in NetBeans.next

Great news! NetBeans PHP team just added SFTP support. Note this is in the development build, which you can get here

http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/sftp_support_added

Sheeri has already commented on this, but I want to stress that MySQL 5.1.30 will be GA by December 6th, 2008.

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Just a quick update, I was invited to speak at Sys-Con’s Cloud Computing Expo 2008 West (how’s that for a mouthful?) and accepted, planning on talking about SkyNet, S3, and our future use of cloud computing. Alas, my Inbox is so crazy, I failed to see the handful of emails the conference sent me asking me to sign a contract of some type. So I missed the deadline and they canceled my spot. (BTW, I can’t recall a conference ever asking me to sign something to speak, but this one does and I was full of FAIL.)

So, I’m sorry, despite being listed on the program, I’m *not* speaking there this week. It was my bad – I just missed the emails (as I miss so many emails these days). But still, a phone call from them wouldn’t have hurt, would it?

Who knows if I’ll be on …

Pluggable open source replication has arrived, at least in beta form. Today we are releasing Tungsten Replicator 1.0 Beta-1 with support for MySQL. This release is the next step in bringing advanced data replication capabilities to open source and has many improvements and bug fixes. It also (finally) has complete documentation. I would like to focus on an interesting feature that is fully developed in this build: pluggable replication.

I have blogged about our goals for Tungsten Replicator quite a bit, for instance here and …

MySQL Performance Tuning is always a popular topic for DBAs and Developers. Traditionally, database tuning has required manual effort and custom scripts. MySQL Query Analyzer aims to minimize the manual effort, with easy-to-use tools to help find-n-fix problem queries. In this interview, we talk with Mark Matthews, to get an architects view of the product.