Kaj's blog: http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/06/18/netbeans-as-ide-for-developing-mysql-itself/

The next release of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard, will have ZFS enabled by default. There’s a good article for the masses, at ZDNet on ZFS on Snow Leopard - do read it.

We all know running any form of server using HFS+ tends to be a bit of a joke. So, Snow Leopard Server will be where ZFS makes its debut. It won’t be long before regular users will want it in their Mac Pro’s and so on…

OS X as a deployment platform for production MySQL servers? This is not far off, I’m sure.

Below are a few more pictures from the Red Hat Summit and FUDCon last week.

Just to keep you comin' back for more, below is the list of podcasts from the events that I will be posting in upcoming days:

Podcasts to come/Posted

• Jim Whitehurst -- President and CEO of Red Hat -- …

Below are a few more pictures from the Red Hat Summit and FUDCon last week.

Just to keep you comin' back for more, below is the list of podcasts from the events that I will be posting in upcoming days:

Podcasts to come/Posted

• Jim Whitehurst -- President and CEO of Red Hat -- …

Here are my slides used for presentation at Red Hat Summit in Boston last week:

Zmanda: Open Source Backup (.odp open office format, 1.7MB)

I have *never* had this happen to me.

Maybe it’s because it’s MySQL 6.0.4, maybe it’s because it’s on Windows, or perhaps I am just up working too late.

I have seen mojibake before, but usually it is unintelligible. But this? After I post this I am backing away slowly from my computer.

Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 3
Server version: 6.0.4-alpha-community MySQL Community Server (GPL)

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> use test;
Database changed
mysql> create table bits (val bit);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.09 sec)

mysql> insert into bits (val) VALUES (1),(0),(1),(1),(0);
Query OK, 5 rows affected (0.05 sec)
Records: 5  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 0

mysql> select * from bits;
+------+
| val  |
+------+
| ?    |
|      |
| ?    |
| ?    |
|      |
+------+
5 rows …

Red Hat releases Spacewalk. It is described as: “the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived“. Congratulations to all whom have worked on it, especially my friends who tired endlessly over it in the past.

Red Hat, is sticking true to its promise, of open sourcing everything they make. Best of all, they recognise Fedora (they always did, since say, Fedora Core 2 or 3), CentOS (a direct “competitor”/rebuild of RHEL), and Scientific Linux (I know of a certain university’s sysadmin who will be blessing Spacewalk, as her life will now be a lot easier).

There have been a few blogs about it… Matt Asay asks about a community (Red Hat traditionally wasn’t good at this, but with Fedora, I believe they’ve learned, and I’m happy …

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS LAST WEEK

• Set up automated runtime information collection tasks on 6 machines; These machines are compiling and testing MySQL 24/7 and uploading the results to Skoll server for future analysis.
• Modified Skoll's upload manager and data processor to handle the separate log files collected by the new Skoll Client. The separate log files include a Skoll Client log and a set of logs for each command (e.g. configure, compile, test) in a test run. The command logs are zipped together by the client before uploading to the server.

KEY TASKS THAT STALLED LAST WEEK

• None

KEY CONCERNS

• Future progress of the project depends on have push-build tar balls.

TASKS IN THE UPCOMING WEEK

• Add more information from the separate log files to the HTML results pages; this task would require database changes to Skoll server. …

Since you're reading this, you probably know that Sun is switching to the Bazaar version control system for all development work on the MySQL server. Unlike the version control system that we've been using previously, Bazaar is an open source project and freely available to anyone. This means that it is now much easier to follow ongoing development, or even to participate in it! On the downside, just like our previous tool, Bazaar is not quite as straight-forward as traditional version control systems such as CVS or subversion. The aim of this article is to give an overview and a general idea of how to set up Bazaar, how to access the MySQL server source code repositories, and the basic commands for working with the source code.

How many of you use the mysql command-line client?  And did you know about the pager command you can give it?  It's pretty useful.  It tells mysql to pipe the output of your commands through the specified program before displaying it to you.

Here's the most basic thing I can think of to do with it: use it as a pager.  (It's scary how predictable I am sometimes, isn't it?)

PLAIN TEXT SQL:

1. mysql> pager less
2. mysql> SHOW innodb STATUS\G

For big result sets, it's a pretty handy way to be able to search and scroll through. No mouse required, of course.

But it doesn't have to be this simple! You can specify anything you want as a pager. Hmm, you know what that means? It means you can write your own script and push the output through it. You can't specify arguments to the script, but since you can write your own, that's not really a …