We'll talk about MySQL Proxy, and anything else that looks suitable, depending on the crowd's requests.
Thanks to Philip Antoniades for the organization.

Well, I blogged about Wordcraft the other day.  I have just been running live on the software for 4 days now.  Well, that post had no URI associated with it.  It took me two days to figure this out.  Oops.  Welcome to eating my own dog food.  So, running this live with actual users (and a host of bot spam attempts) I am learning a lot and making a lot of commits.  So, I may very well roll once or twice a week for the first few weeks.

So, with that, I have packaged 0.5.  There are 15 changes in this package.  Some features, but mostly bug fixes.  So, if you could use a simple blog, give it a try and help me debug it.  If you do, please use the Google Code …

On friday we released the second Beta version of PBXT. PBXT is a transactional storage engine for MySQL 5.1 and 6.0. You can find out more about the engine at www.primebase.org.

PBXT is pluggable, so it can be built separately from the MySQL tree, and loaded dynamically at runtime using the LOAD PLUGIN statement.

You can download PBXT from here. A "quick guide" to building and installing the plugin is provided. I have also updated the documentation for this version.

There are no major new features in this release because we are working towards the RC version in December. But we wrote some release notes to prove we have been busy :)

There is now also a version of PBXT available for …

Out of loyalty to someone I respect, I have chosen to withdraw my post about honesty that appeared at this address.

Let me however take this opportunity to remind my dear MySQL customers and users: I warmly recommend you consult an experienced MySQL expert when architecting your MySQL solutions. Setup a call with a Sales Engineer, hire a consultant, read the blogs of MySQL AB oldtimers. If you have a hard time finding solid MySQL info, we are there to help you.

Last week I found out about the Open Source Economy Conference 2008 held in Putrajaya, Malaysia on the 19th of November 2008. Its co-organised by Sun and the Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC). Its also the “launch” of MySQL in Malaysia.

I only mention this because I’m speaking - check the agenda out. Don’t hesitate to register now.

On Thursday, November 13, 2008 (14:00 UTC / 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET), I’ll be presenting a MySQL University session on MySQL and OpenSolaris.

The presentation will be similar to the presentation I did at the London OpenSolaris Users Group in July, you can see that presentation by visiting the LOSUG: July 2008 page.

The presentation on thursday will be slightly different - I’ll be providing a bit more hands-on information about how to install MySQL, how to configure and change the configuration and some more detail on solutions like the Webstack and Coolstack distributions.

I’ll also cover our plans for the inclusion of MySQL 5.1 in OpenSolaris, which will happen next year, and provide some examples on the new DTrace probes that we have been adding to MySQL generally.

Of course, if there’s anything specific you want me to …

The Workbench team have just announced the release of Workbench for Linux, including binary packages and source packages with instructions on how to build.

I’m a Gentoo Linux user, so I prefer building from source, and you’ll need to emerge the following packages (and note the USE) requirement as part of the source build process:

# USE="svg" emerge libzip libxml2 libsigc++ \
    libglade libgtksourceviewmm media-libs/glut mysql lua \
    ossp-uuid libpcre libgnome gtk+ pango cairo

Depending on your config and platform, you may need to bypass some package masking by adding the packages to your /etc/portage/package.keywords file.

Then download and install the ctemplate library from google code page. The current Gentoo …

It’s interesting that if you read through the Zend dB manual, they mention a big problem with Zend Framework, namely that since Zend uses prepared statements, if you’re running a pre-5.1.17 version of MySQL, you give up the benefits of … Continue reading →

On November 19th, the Los Angeles MySQL Meetup Group will meet for the first time. Infobright will be presenting their approach to analytic data warehousing. If you’re in the El Segundo area, please do join us.