MySQL Version 6.x is alpha. This blog is about its new features.

Expect a new article every week or two.

The first article,
MySQL 6.0 Feature #1: Supplementary Characters
is out now.
http://blogs.mysql.com/peterg/2008/04/

The new version is avaialble for download.

In this release:

- added: windows port
- added: multitable select star warning
- added: multicolumn IN clause warning
- added: numeration for output messages

- fixed: bug 0000001: Compilation fails
(a compilation problem on 3.x g++ compilers)

ebizApril 16, 2008Kickfire and Open Source Partners Team to Deliver BI Solutions on MySQL Database Appliance (http://www.ebizq.net/news/9416.html?grss)

Diamond NotesApril 16, 2008Faster, Greener, Cheaper (Why every MySQL server will one day have a SQL chip) (http://www.paragon-cs.com/wordpress/2008/04/16/raj-cherabuddi-faster-greener-cheaper-why-every-mysql-server-will-one-day-have-a-sql-chip-uc/)

eWeek April 15, 2008SQL Chip Gives MySQL Data Warehouse Boost (http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Database/SQL-Chip-Gives-MySQL-Data-Warehouse-Boost/)

Xaprb April 15, 2008A Different Angle on the MySQL Conference (http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/04/15/a-different-angle-on-the-mysql-conference)

MySQL MagazineApril 15, 2008Introducing Kickfire (http://www.paragon-cs.com/mag/issue4.pdf)

It's been nearly a year since the last post, so you might naturally wonder if I am dead or stopping development of MySQLdb. Actually I've been sick for the last year and a half or so, and hadn't really been motivated enough to do anything. Here's what's been going on:

John Eikenberry has taken over development of ZMySQLDA, since I pretty much don't do anything with Zope these days. He's made a couple of releases on the way to a 3.0 release. As far as I know, ZMySQLDA is still only useful with Zope 2 as Zope 3 has a different architecture and comes with MySQL support directly.

Monty Taylor from MySQL AB has volunteered to help out on MySQLdb. I believe the way this is going to work out is he's going to be doing maintenance on the 1.2 branch, and get some minor bug fixes out there. In addition, he has a good start on a native (i.e. written in Python) …

Sun Microsystems recently announced the purchase of MySQL. In this interview the day of the announcement, OurSQL asks Brian Aker about what this means for customers, community, Sun and MySQL.

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Falcon engine is here! It seems that MySQL is pushing very hard to have its own transaction engine ever since Innodb was acquired by Oracle. MySQL should buy Innodb long time ago. Now they are paying for the price!

On the bright side, I do believe the developers at MySQL will do a good job and come out something better than Innodb :-)

In the next few weeks, I will do some benchmarks to how the baby falcon doing.

http://www.mysql.com/mysql60/