Why one may wonder, it's just Swedish beer (State of Doplhin, MySQL UC 2006).
One week ago Jim Starkey sent message http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=1742 so he will not work for MySQL anymore and starting new project. While that's fully Jim Starkey's personal decision, I expected some comments about Falcon future development from MySQL / Sun side. Jim was not just ordinary developer, but lead of project and main architect of Falcon and his leaving may change a lot. For now MySQL's calm seems stunned or indifferent to Falcon's destiny.
Falcon has being developed for about 2.5 years, and despite it named "beta" stage, it sill crashes in our quite simple benchmarks, so it's very optimistic "beta". That's why I wonder if this project will be ever finished, especially when main architect left it. …

Removing Barriers to the Community - MySQL Moves to Bazaar - Jay Pipes It is the role of a community manager to remove the barriers — both technical and ideological — between the user/developer community and the company or group of individuals which produces the open source software

Linux.com :: Lessons learned from NCSU FOSS class As textbooks, [...]

My post on what it’s like to write a technical book was a stream-of-consciousness look at the process of writing High Performance MySQL, Second Edition. I got a lot of responses from it and learned some neat things I wouldn’t have learned if I hadn’t written the post. I also got a lot of questions, and my editor wrote a response too. I want to follow up on these things.

Week 3(9th June – 16th June)

Key Accomplishments Last Week

1) Successfully went through the complete presentation on http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/How_to_Build_MySQL_on_Windows/Presentation

2) Successfully built mysql from source by following the instructions http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Internals_Guided_Tour.

3) Resolved all errors that arose from steps 1) and 2) on my system.In the process I gained plenty of insight into the internal working of mysql and ubuntu.

4) Mysqlslap is written in the C API. Hence I began to read about the C API for writing client programs to access the mysql database.

Key Tasks that stalled Last Week

None

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Week 3(9th June – 16th June)

Key Accomplishments Last Week

1) Successfully went through the complete presentation on http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/How_to_Build_MySQL_on_Windows/Presentation

2) Successfully built mysql from source by following the instructions http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Internals_Guided_Tour.

3) Resolved all errors that arose from steps 1) and 2) on my system.In the process I gained plenty of insight into the internal working of mysql and ubuntu.

4) Mysqlslap is written in the C API. Hence I began to read about the C API for writing client programs to access the mysql database.

Key Tasks that stalled Last Week

None

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So everybody and their dog hopefully knows about SQL injection attacks these days. Most people should have also heard someone telling them that using prepared statements is the magic super fix to all of these issues. People slightly more in the know will have read that prepared statements lead to all sorts of issues. Some of which can be fixed with hacks (or eventually at the source). Some of which can only be solved of the source also exist of course. Some others can only be fixed with certain assumptions (like using the first set of data for generating the …

One of our replication slave broke last night. This is another strange one. I have multiple slaves running under version 4.1.19 (yup, this is an old one, hehe). But for some strange reason, only one replication slave exhibited the following behavior: It would seem like it cannot create a temporary table while other replication slaves have no problem with it. See below for the example.

mysql> create temporary table abc (id int);
ERROR 1046 (3D000): No database selected

mysql> \u customer
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Database changed

mysql> create temporary table abc (id int);
ERROR 1049 (42000): Unknown database 'customer'

mysql> create table abc (id int);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> \u test
…

In this BLOG post I will concentrate on the achievements with data synchronization with SQLyog 7.0 (beta 1 released just before the weekend).

SQLyog 7 provides 2-8 times speed improvement (depending on data) with a ‘mixed-type’ of syc-job (involving both INSERTS, UPDATES and DELETES) as compared to SQLyog 6. A few comparison examples (SQLyog 6, SQLyog 7 and Maatkit) with 4 testcases:

a)
Source Rows: 3950400, Target Rows: 3950400, Inserted Rows: 49599, Updated Rows: 49500, Deleted Rows:49599. Primary Col(INT). InnoDB
SQLyog 6: 1120 sec
SQLyog 7: 267 sec
Maatkit : 530 sec

b)
Source Rows: 48025 , Target Rows: 48775, Inserted Rows: 1225 , Updated Rows:1225, Deleted Rows : 1975. Primary Col(INT), InnoDB.
SQLyog 6: 30 sec
SQLyog 7 : 8 sec
Maatkit : 19 sec

c)
Source Rows:150404 , Target Rows: 152864, Inserted Rows: 12136, Updated Rows: 16236, …

UPDATE - 2008-06-23 - A member of O’Reilly’s editing team commented that this privilege has *NOT* been discontinued, and all O’Reilly authors should receive a free Safari account. Thanks a bunch, Mary, for the clarification (see comments for more).

I learned from one of the authors of the recently released second (read: first, squared) edition of High Performance MySQL that O’Reilly apparently did away with the idea of giving O’Reilly book authors free Safari accounts. Lame.

I do not know why in the world they would discontinue this offering for authors. Perhaps they’re not aware, but a great many of the O’Reilly authors are also bloggers. Tech bloggers. Some of them write on the O’Reilly blogs themselves, but …