The german print magazine Technical Review features two MySQL articles in his latest issue 09/2008. Kaj gets interviewed on the question what the future plans of Sun are with regards to MySQL. And I give answers to five technical questions on MySQL and upcoming features.

The german language teaser of the two articles reads as follows:

Kaj Arnö steht Rede und Antwort Was hat Sun mit MySQL vor? Der Vice President of Community Relations und MySQL
Ambassador bei Sun im Interview.

Fünf Fragen zu MySQL. Wohin sich MySQL technisch entwickelt und welche Neuerungen in nächster Zeit zu erwarten sind.

The Technical Review is a bi-monthly magazine published by Linux New Media. Linux New Media also publishes the german language print …

One of the first days of OScon this year, while I was sitting in the Speaker's Lounge, I met Randal Schwartz, and told him about Drizzle. It turns out that, in addition to hacking and teaching Perl, he does a podcast FLOSS weekly, and wanted to interview Brian about it. So I hooked the two of them up.

Here is the resulting interview.

People are asking me if Percona will support Drizzle and what is in general our position regarding this project.

First about Support. We surely will support the customers if they select to run the Drizzle instead of MySQL Server. For us it is same as supporting MySQL Server with custom patches, which we do. In general our Support Policy is very open ended - we would support wide variety of systems, and we’re just being open about our experience with such system and ability to help if need arises.

Will we Recommend Drizzle ? We recommend what makes sense to the customers. If MySQL is not the best choice for the customers we’ll be open about it. Drizzle will need to prove it stable and being better fit for certain group of customers and we will recommend it it in such cases. It is …

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 …