More competition for Mtron is right around the corner.

The Mtron PRO 7000 at 32GB is $1,129 or $35 per GB and can write at 90MB/s.

The Super Talent MasterDrive DX at 64GB is $1299 or $20 per GB and can do 70MB/s throughput.

So the Super Talent drive is about 22% slower but 42% cheaper.

Though I don’t think the MTBF is high enough for DB operations.

That and there’s no published IOPS specification. Kind of important….

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There's an article about social networking and online retailers in this month's Internet Retailer.

I've been saying for some time that open source is not a price tag, or at least is much more than that. In criticizing Oracle's "lite"/express approach to competing with MySQL years ago, I insisted that "free, as in price, is just one part of the open source puzzle. But it's not necessarily the most important one."

I stand by that claim, and received confirmation from Untangle this week.

Untangle is an open-source network gateway company. It started out as a proprietary software company, but turned to open source for growth. This doesn't always work well for companies, largely because many get the model and/or culture wrong.

Untangle, however, has done it right, and …

Dear Lazyweb,

I am tracking three four five lots of different proxies for MySQL today:

http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Proxy
http://consoleninja.net/code/dpm/README.html
http://spockproxy.sourceforge.net/
http://sqlrelay.sourceforge.net/
http://myosotis.continuent.org/HomePage
Proximo

Would someone please do a write up on which is best, which is moving forward, and synopsis the differences? I don't expect a front runner just yet, but it would be nice to see a …

This is the 96th edition of the weekly review of database blogs, Log Buffer.

Let’s start this one in SQL Server Land, with a question from Dennis Gobo — should SQL Server have the CREATE [OR REPLACE] PROCEDURE syntax? There are, he writes, advantages: “When scripting out a database you don?t have to generate if exists…..drop statements,” and disadvantages: “I can overwrite a proc without even knowing it.” Of course, the commenters have opinions of their own, and the piece becomes a straw poll for the desirability of that syntax as a feature.

Aaron Bertrand has one too: …

I got yesterday a honor award at the HP Linux Forum 2008 in Helsinki, from FLUG (Finnish Linux user group) for "important work for the good of Linux" and for "working to keep the code open even when part of MySQL management has been of different opinion".

The major award went to Ubuntu Suomi for their good work in translating Ubuntu to Finnish and helping Finnish users setting up and using Ubuntu.

Linux.fi got the other honor award for their work on creating a Finnish Wiki for Linux users.

Arto Teräs, the spokesman of FLUG, said among other things, that "MySQL was one of the killer applications that brought Linux to the business world and to other places where Linux was not used …

In Linux, there is no command which will rename a user account. If you make a mistake creating a user account, user changes their name or if user does not like his user name, there is no real easy way of going and making the change. Only thing I know you can do is to go through some files and rename user manually. Let us say that we have a user who is named joe and we want to rename him to john.

Note: you must be logged in as root to do following.

vi /etc/passwd
find joe and change it to john, save/exit

vi /etc/group
find joe and change it to john, save/exit

vi /etc/shadow
find joe and change it to john. This file is read only and you have to force overwrite it. In vi it is :w! once saved, quit.

cd /home
mv joe john

And that should do the trick.

[Edited] Right after I posted this post, I was contacted and was told to look at utility called usermod. Read …

So it seems that Sun has made it clear that the core product will remain open source. Of course the definition of what is core and what isn't is up to Sun/MySQL to decide, but it seems that overall more things will be released as open source than if MySQL would have gone through with its planned IPO. So this is a good thing. Speaking of non core products, I really like what Mike and his team are doing in the GUI department with the workbench and their other GUI tools. However since Sun is friendly to PostgreSQL and actually also distributes SQLite (its …