Regarding my earlier post on memcached webinar, I was informed today that more than 420 registrants have signed up. Space is limited and filling up fast so if you are interested in memcached and haven't registered yet, click on the following link to register now!

Designing and Implementing Scalable Applications with Memcached and MySQL (June 29)

SourceForge announces quarterly earnings. Linux server growth strong, says analyst firm. Talend adds support for MaxDB. (and more)

SourceForge Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2008 Results, SourceForge (Press Release)

Worldwide Server Market Shows Resiliency with Solid First Quarter Results, According to IDC, IDC (Press Release)

Talend Announces Data Integration for MaxDB, Talend (Press Release)

How everyone wins with open source software, Linux.com, Lisa Hoover (Article)

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now it's only the unknown remaining :-)

mysql-test-run now passes for all tests

current plan:
1) will now start on adding error handling in dict,
it shouldnt be that hard (or take that long)

2) i'll (likely) also do the "grand unified state"-patch in dict (but in 6.4)
aka remove table-state.

3) also now started thinking about add-node

4) maybe I should publish a snapshot...i'll wait to see if I get any comments
requesting it

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I missed my normal comments-fishing the last posts.
Will try to keep the spirit (even if comments are few)

Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that the Nordrhein-Westfalen Data Centre for Finance Management (RZF) is relying on MySQL Enterprise™ to deliver its database applications. Following a very successful test period for its custom-built financial applications, RZF plans to deploy additional MySQL™-based database applications in the future.

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.

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

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 …

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!

• Matt Asay gets frustrated
• Summer tech conferences
• Why …

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? …

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 …