Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that First B2B Ltd, one of the leading providers of business-to-business electronic trading, is now processing more than 2 million complex transactions a year with Sun's MySQL™ database software. With MySQL as the 'central plank' of its business, First B2B is able to support the trading transactions of more than 400 companies throughout the UK, and its entire operations are now based upon a MySQL Enterprise™ database subscription.
May
28
2008
May
27
2008
MySQL databases are increasingly used by high volume, high
transaction applications
that support businesses running full throttle 24-hours a day,
seven days a week.
Backup and recovery operations need to be conducted in such as
way that is non-disruptive
to users and applications. The latest release of Zmanda Recovery
Manager (ZRM) 2.2 provides
Continuous Data Protection (CDP) as well as instant point-in-time
recovery for MySQL.
In this webinar, we will demonstrate the latest ZRM enhancements
so that you can use ZRM
to build a robust, flexible, and easy to use backup and recovery
solution.
When: Thursday May 29, 2008, 10:00am Pacific / 1:00pm Eastern
May
27
2008
If you need to combine two scripts with MySQL
Proxy you have three choices.
- You can manually rewrite the two scripts (good luck!)
- you can use the load-multi module to load scripts on demand;
- or you can use the proxy chaining technique.
To chain two proxies, you need to start one Proxy with the first
Lua script, pointing at the real backend, listening to a
non-standard port. Then you start the second Proxy with the
second Lua script, having the first proxy as a backend, and
listening to the standard proxy port.
It's a difficult and error prone procedure. You would forget
about it, unless there were an easy workaround. And indeed you
can have such a workaround. Just use the …
May
27
2008
Since I've been doing most of my blogging lately over at InfoWorld, I thought I'd provide a short digest of some of the top posts in recent months. I share the blog with Savio Rodrigues from IBM, but other than some overlap at the occasional conference, we blog independently. (Yes, it's an old photo.) Enjoy!
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May
27
2008
And here we are, my second post in which I mention twitter, and wonder aloud what open source software projects should be doing with twitter. I don’t have any well-formed thoughts to foist on you, but I’ll tell you about an experiment I’ve been doing. Last week I started using summize.com to search for conversations about bzr. I did the same thing for ubuntu and for git, but only really stuck with the bzr stream. It’s been interesting to see what people are talking about, I’ve tried chiming in with suggestions when I can or asking for further details when people complain. I think what is so fascinating to me about this is that I’m finding a whole lot of conversations that aren’t at the level of a ranting blog post but are encouraging or thought-provoking feedback nonetheless.
I also registered twitter.com/bzr, but I’m not sure what to do with it yet. Suggestions? …
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May
27
2008
MySQL is featured on the Google Open Source
Blog
Just after leaving JavaOne, Leslie pinged me on IRC to inform me
that the MySQL project was featured on the Google
Open Source blog. Go on, read Moments of Inspiration.
In other news from mentors, Colin Charles, former mentor and 2008 organization administrator for MySQL dropped a note to let us know that their Community Bonding period is moving along swimmingly. So well, in fact, that their students are already delivering weekly status reports. Colin mentioned that …
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May
27
2008
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During the Italian Free Software Conference in Trento, I attended an amazing presentation on virtual components. Renzo Davoli, professor at Bologna University and hacker, has stretched the concept of virtualization to new limits. Virtual Square is a project aiming at developing more dynamic implementations of virtual entities, which eventually get separated from the concept of operating system and root privileges. |
The coolest aspect of all this project is the virtualization of
single elements like a disk drive, a net port,
a file system, without root privileges, and with no impact on
other users.
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May
27
2008
Today I had a chance to explain Q4M in detail, and here are the slides I used.
It covers from what (generally) a message queue is, the internals of Q4M, how it should be used as a pluggable storage engine of MySQL, to a couple of usage senarios. I hope you will enjoy reading it.
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May
27
2008
If you are working with MySQL as a DBA or developer, I'd like to encourage you to consider taking the MySQL Magazine Survey, which was compiled by Keith Murphy and Mark Schoonover.
The survey takes around 10-15 minutes to complete and runs until June 16th. The results will be published in the summer issue of MySQL Magazine, due on July 15th. The questions cover a broad range of topics, from details about your MySQL experience and job description over connectors and languages to operating systems and MySQL versions.
Thanks in advantage for your support and input! The results of this survey will be interesting for us as well.
May
27
2008
Hey,
Today, I started off working with MySQL after a long break. I have tried it before too, using WAMPServer, which had phpMyAdmin to manage the database for website development. I was using it for the first time then, so never really went into much technicalities.
During the past 6 months, NetBeans 6.0 FCS and 6.1 FCS were released. I am glad to use both of them, as both made my work easier than ever before. Just because of the speed which 6.1 provides, I have started shifting from 6.0!
Also, Sun acquired MySQL during this time and I was happy to see this acquisition taking place, as NetBeans would support MySQL …
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