Today (August 1st 2008) I started write a series of articles to be referenced in my MySQL™ 5.1 Use Case Report that I will submit later this month to the Community Team for the MySQL™ 5.1 Use Case Competition.

I guess UC Reports should contain real world use of MySQL™ 5.1. So if I am not mistaken you can submit a Report on partitioning, for instance, if you are using v. 5.1 because you need partitioning and you can include in your Report the reason you needed partitioning and a description of your development and deployment environment.

Now, I am not using Partitioning (or Events or Plugins) because I *need* partitioning in my production system for a specific reason. I am a developer so I developed software on those features ;-). So I will submit some posts about new features of the version 5.1 and let others decide if my stuff …

[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 Federated Servers . 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 Federated Servers in MySQL™ 5.1

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

Contents

• Introduction
• Federated Server Metadata
• Retrieving the list of Federated Servers
• The Federated Server …

[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 Scheduled Events . 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 Scheduled Events in MySQL™ 5.1

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

Contents

• Introduction
• The Scheduled Event Editor
  1. Performed Action
  2. Advanced
  3. Comment …

[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 Server Objects List included in HoneyMonitor. I am writing it because I will reference it in some posts I am going to write in the next weeks. Furthermore, it could be useful for Users who are new to the product and want to get start with it.

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

Contents:

• Introduction
• Connections Tree
• Metadata Catalog
• Using the Server Objects List
• Other …

I decided I’d be a good sport and try to do some build work for Drizzle on OpenSolaris to make sure we weren’t accidentally Linux-ifying something. Nevermind OpenSolaris installing an nsswitch file set up to not use DNS by default. Nevermind OpenSolaris reinventing the wheel for package management rather than starting with a package management system already in use by people (or and then fixing the things . Nevermind the GPL incompatible CDDL license… I’d be a good sport and give it (another) try.

I should add, in all honesty, I really do want OpenSolaris to be good. I think monocultures are bad, and I think Solaris can be useful in the growth of the ecosystem.

Step one. Install bzr.

pkg search bzr

Nothing. Wasn’t expecting much. That’s ok. Grab tarball. Unpack.

FAIL

Silly me. There is no sudo, so I had become root first (sure - I’m sure there …

If you decide to copy over one table from MySQL installation to another installation, this could be done as simple as copying over your-table-name.\* in data directory. Ofcourse, to do this, the database should not be running at the time of copying.

For example, for tables created by MyISAM storage engine, the files to be copied for table mytable are mytable.frm, mytable.MYD and mytable.MYI. The ".frm" file contains table definition, the ".MYI" contains info about index and ".MYD" contains data.

If you do this kind of stuff often, you may want to dump the header of the ".frm" header file. I just wrote a script for this. You can download this php script "frmdump" from here. Note that it is a php script, but meant to be run from command line (not to be used as web page) :

   $  ./frmdump   mytable.frm
  
Dumping  mytable.frm using .frm header format ... …

If you decide to copy over one table from MySQL installation to another installation, this could be done as simple as copying over your-table-name.\* in data directory. Ofcourse, to do this, the database should not be running at the time of copying.

For example, for tables created by MyISAM storage engine, the files to be copied for table mytable are mytable.frm, mytable.MYD and mytable.MYI. The ".frm" file contains table definition, the ".MYI" contains info about index and ".MYD" contains data.

If you do this kind of stuff often, you may want to dump the header of the ".frm" header file. I just wrote a script for this. You can download this php script "frmdump" from here. Note that it is a php script, but meant to be run from command line (not to be used as web page) :

   $  ./frmdump   mytable.frm
  
Dumping  mytable.frm using .frm header format ... …

As Matt Asay recently mentioned in his post about Kickfire, the company just closed a Series B for $20 million. In today’s credit-scarce market where VC funding is flat/declining, $20 million is a lot of money, especially for a company whose product is still in beta. What’s more, there seems to be an investment bubble in the broader data warehousing space in which Kickfire participates (at last count, there were over two dozen vendors, the majority of which are relatively new entrants) and that bubble looks like it is starting to burst as witnessed by Microsoft’s recent acquisition of DATAllegro. So, are the Kickfire investors misguided or is there something more here …

We prepared RPMs of our release for RedHat 5 / CentOS 5 x86_64 platform.
http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/mysql/RPM/RHEL5/5.0.62/

There was question what patcheset includes and if there is manuals.
We have:

• microsecond resolution in slow-log
• extended query plan in slow-log and InnoDB statistics. You can read more here http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/04/20/updated-msl-microslow-patch-installation-walk-through/
• User / Table / Index statistics (Google's patch). More here …

Before I am leaving for my summer vacation I wanted to share the first screen designs for the Mac version of Workbench. Click on the small images below to view the screenshots at full size.

The first shot shows the new Overview Page. It holds the Workbench Central panel (that can be collapsed of course), the Machine-Group panels and a Notes panel. Each machine tab holds a list of Database Connections and MySQL Models that are associated with that particular machine. (The list of Database Instances shown in this screenshot - which will give you access to administrative features - are a WB 6.0 feature coming later next year).

When you double-click a Database Connection you will get to the new SQL Query interface that is show on the next screenshot. When a MySQL Model has been double-clicked the model is opened on a new main-tab …