Hello Cluster users,

I have put together a set of evaluation and development packages that allows you to install a MySQL Cluster on "localhost" in a matter of seconds (ok, a minute is more realistic). If you want a fully distributed setup, please use the configuration tool.

The packages comes in four sizes (tiny, small, medium, large) and deploys a cluster consisting of:

• 1 management server
• 2 data nodes
• 2 mysql servers

All installed on localhost. Of course, you also get a set of scripts to manage your cluster!

Check it out on http://www.severalnines.com/eval/
Download a package and follow the instructions below (tested on Linux):

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My parents instilled upon me many values that I keep with me today. My twin brother and I are the youngest of four children, coming from a lower-middle class background. We children had the inevitable fights over material possessions, screeching “Mine! Mine!”

My father’s response to this was to look at us and say “These toys are mine; I bought those toys with money I worked for. What’s yours is what you make with your bodies.” While the sentiment is arguably harsh, crude and bordering on vulgar, I cannot argue that he had a certain point.

If you do not truly own something, you will be left squabbling like a child when your perceived ownership is threatened. When you assumed you owned something and the truth comes to light, you will be massively insecure and have a sense of injustice.

A few points from OSCon are haunting me and getting me …

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Less than two weeks ago, I posted my Database Survey. As of just a few minutes ago, I have had 215 responses. That's pretty awesome. I'd like to get at least twice that though.

I haven't looked deeply at it yet to see if there are any trends. I think it will be best to wait until the survey is closed. I did look at some of the responses, kind of as a quality check. Looks like MySQL is fairly well represented. I didn't see any DB2 responses (for primary database). I did see plenty of Oracle and a few Postgres.

I will leave it up for another 2 1/2 weeks (for a total of 4 weeks). If you haven't taken it yet, please do so if you get a few minutes. It only takes 5-10 minutes as there is only 25 questions.

Also, if you have a blog, post on forums (without spamming), or have any other ways to spread the word, I would …

I want to synchronize the table structure of two databases and both databases are not in production. Unfortunately, I've only seen SQLyog (a commercial software) to be able to offer this feature. Mk-table-sync is not able to do this as it is only concerned with synchronizing the data of two databases.

I wonder how hard it is to synchronize two databases, assuming that it is only a one-way synchronization. Database A will have the updated table structures and database B needs those 'updated schema sql' to sync itself with database A.

So, if database A has new tables, then the output would be some create table sqls.
If database A has some updated table schemas (eg. new columns added, column type modified), then the output would be some alter table sqls.
If database A has new indexes, then the output would be some alter table sqls again.
If database A removed some tables, then the output would be some …

[HoneyMonitor is a GUI for MySQL™. Server Administration, Database and Database Objects Administration, Code Development, Server Monitoring, Performance Monitoring, Performance Auditing. Read more on http://www.honeysoftware.com/]

This is a short tutorial on the features implemented in HoneyMonitor for the use and administration of Plugins. It could be useful for Users who are new to the product and want to get start with it or to whom want to learn the basis of Plugins in MySQL™ 5.1

More details on the HoneyMonitor Reference Manual at http://www.honeysoftware.com/honeymonitor/doc.

Contents

• Introduction
• Plugins Metadata
• Retrieving the list of Plugins
• The Plugins Editor
• The Plugins Tab of the Server Properties Window …

Brian Aker's Drizzle post was the most interesting news to emerge during OSCON 2008. In case you have been on vacation, Drizzle is a stripped down version of MySQL for horizontally scaled web applications and Cloud Computing. Full-blown SQL databases are often overkill here, a point of view espoused by this blog among others.

It's easy to get excited about Drizzle. Brian, Monty, and others define the problem space very clearly and list some intriguing feature ideas on the Drizzle wiki. Just one example: sharding across multiple nodes, which is key to scaling massive reads and writes. From a technical perspective, it sounds cool.

Still, there's a dark side for …

I don't even remember how I ended up on the Akademy site this morning .. but luckily I did.

Akademy takes place in Sint-Katelijne-Waver , ages a go my grandparents lived there to, that's Belgium if you didn't notice yet.

Now the weird thing is that there seems almost no fuzz about it in the Belgian Foss Community , nobody talks about it.
Also on Upcoming.org the event can't be found. :(

Honestly this worries me, why isn't there more talk about a rather big FOSS event in Belgium, don't we care anymore ? Or do we just not care about KDE. (apart from the people organizing the event ?)
There's lots of Drupal, MySQL and Gnome activity going on in our little country but somehow less KDE. Hopefully Akademy changes that.

Sadly I have already a fully …

Microsoft, making the same mistake that Oracle made a few years ago with its low-end Oracle 10g Express Edition database, has decided that the best way to hold off open source nipping at its heels is to create a portfolio of low-end, cheap products.

It won't work. Microsoft provides ...