So, Ray Ozzie has gone on the record to suggest that open source could be a bigger threat to Microsoft than Google is. Savio isn't buying that line, and I'm not sure that I do, either.

Let's be clear about what Ozzie actually said:

...[O]pen source [i]s much more potentially disruptive [than Google].

Open source has disruptive potential. Google is disruptive now. Google is making money now in markets that Microsoft covets, while open source is not cutting into a single Microsoft revenue stream. Not one. Red Hat and Novell's SUSE are almost entirely eating away at the Unix market, while MySQL is creating new markets with web properties. Open source? It doesn't (today) make a dent in Office, Windows, XBox, Dynamics, etc.

So why is …

Quick 'n' Easy LAMP Server For CentOS/RHEL

This tutorial shows a quick way of installing a LAMP server (Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP/Perl together commonly known as LAMP Server.) on CentOS and RHEL server systems.

So, I was asked in IRC today about the proposed short array syntax for PHP. For those that don't know, I mean the same syntax that other languages (javascript, perl, python, ruby) all have. Currently in PHP we have this:

$var = array(1,2,3);

The proposed additional syntax is:

$var = [1,2,3];

So, I voted +1 for this feature on the PHP Internals list. A colleague asked me why I voted +1. At first I had no good answer other than it was just a gut feeling. It just feels like a good addition to the language. It is common among web languages and therefore users coming into PHP from other languages may find it more comfortable.

The best thing I could tell him was that it would make arrays fall in line with other data types in PHP. For example, you never write:

$var = int(1);

$var = string(foo);

So, why oh why do we have to have what …

More attention to this survey is coming from Lenz Grimmer MySQL Community Manager for EMEA, and …

Bug fixes:

*  OS monitoring issue in Fedora Core 6 Zod was fixed

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Within 36 hours of launching, the 2008 MySQL Magazine Survey has over 100 responses from around the globe. Join the community and let us know how you use MySQL.

Have you surveyed?

2008 MySQL Magazine SurveyMySQL DBA & Programming Blog by Mark Schoonover

Within 36 hours of launching, the 2008 MySQL Magazine Survey has over 100 responses from around the globe. Join the community and let us know how you use MySQL.

Have you surveyed?

2008 MySQL Magazine SurveyMySQL DBA & Programming Blog by Mark Schoonover

There have been many surveys on MySQL, but usually not as deep as this one launched by Keith Murphy, editor of the MySQL Magazine and Mark Schoonover.
I have seen some turmoil lately, with talks of forking the code base and organizing a community conference. The community seems restless, and this initiative could be an attempt of counting their ranks to see how much they can dare.
I welcome this initiative of seeing through the fog. If a survey was needed, rather than waiting one to fall from the sky (or from the Sun :-) ), the industrious bloggers have started their own. I will be curious to see the …

You can find some photos and such on the APAC blog for MySQL about
mine and Mixi's Toru-san's Memcached talk in Japan:
Blog Entry Link (UTF8, may not work for all browsers)

I'd post more Japanese here, but Planet MySQL cannot handle the UTF8 :)

MySQL Database is a great product used by thousand of websites. Various web applications use MySQL as their default database. Some of these applications are written with security in mind, and some are not. In this article, I would like to show you how you can exploit SQL injection in order to gain almost full control over your webserver.

Most people know that SQL injection allows attackers to retrieve database records, pass login screens, change database content, through the creation of new administrative users. MySQL does not have a built-in command to execute shell commands, like Microsoft SQL server. I will show you how to run arbitrary commands using standard features provided by MySQL.

First of all, I would like to give a brief description of SQL injection, then I would like to present you with a couple less known methods that exist in MySQL, which I will use to backdoor a webserver. I will use 2 built-in MySQL commands - one …