What a long name eh... the link is http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2008/horizons/
Jonathon and I will be there, and I am speaking in the business
track on Tuesday. It won't be about training or the other stuff
that Open Query is doing, but instead provide a high-level
(business) overview of MySQL's unique architecture. As we know,
MySQL is particularly capable at doing a lot of things, but for
optimal results the underlying architecture needs to be right,
too.
Of course it is an excellent opportunity for us to meet some more
potential customers too, as we now have a lot more training
modules for developers, DBAs and High Availability. Our
public course schedule for the coming months covers Brisbane,
Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide and Auckland, and meanwhile …
…the volume of patches [to PostgreSQL] has risen dramatically during the past few years.
This is total hearsay — I don’t have hard numbers, haven’t verified it myself, etc etc. But consider the source!
What can be responsible for this increase in patches to PostgreSQL?
During 2008 we are planning to run a series of interviews with interesting persons somehow related to the telecom field. In this first installment, we will have a chat with Juha Heinänen from Finland.
MySQL: Juha, you are a former professor of Computer Science and Communication technology, CTO (or similar positions) in at least Sonera, Telia and Song, former ATM specialist, responsible for bringing Internet to Finland and registering the .fi top-level domain, a consultant for many early network equipment startups some of which succeeded to be still with us today, and author of several RFC's. Nowadays you are a core contributor to the OpenSER SIP proxy, and you sell a VoIP platform called OpenSIPg based on that to Nordic operators. In addition you seem to live a life that would likely be a dream of many hackers, spending time in different parts of the world hacking on your favorite Open Source project. Even to this date, I …
[Read more]During 2008 we are planning to run a series of interviews with interesting persons somehow related to the telecom field. In this first installment, we will have a chat with Juha Heinänen from Finland.
MySQL: Juha, you are a former professor of Computer Science and Communication technology, CTO (or similar positions) in at least Sonera, Telia and Song, former ATM specialist, responsible for bringing Internet to Finland and registering the .fi top-level domain, a consultant for many early network equipment startups some of which succeeded to be still with us today, and author of several RFC's. Nowadays you are a core contributor to the OpenSER SIP proxy, and you sell a VoIP platform called OpenSIPg based on that to Nordic operators. In addition you seem to live a life that would likely be a dream of many hackers, spending time in different parts of the world hacking on your favorite Open Source project. Even to this date, I …
[Read more]MySQL’s version numbering is getting harder and harder to understand. In fact, it’s getting surreal. Let me state up front that there’s probably a lot I don’t know here. But if I don’t know, how on earth can the general public figure it out? Before we begin, let’s define terms: GA is completely done, ready for use. RC is a release candidate: don’t change anything, just fix bugs because we’re charging towards a release here.
A couple of months ago, I wrote about the hierarchy of enterprise software needs, and
today I would like to share with you how I think those needs have
changed.
A long, long time (say ten years) ago, a company might decide
that it needs to manage its sales effort more effectively. It
might decide that a CRM system is what it needed, then buy
servers, license a package, and then train, or at least try to
train, its salespeople to use the system. They are told that they
need to enter all their account and contact information into the
system, log all their calls and meetings with clients, and fill
out forms to record the sales opportunities. They will also have
to make periodic forecasts with the system.
Needless to say, some sales people might resist, but it's up to
management to make sure that they …
Just a day at the office, at MySQL Sun
Originally uploaded by FallenPegasusOne of the perqs of working for MySQL
has always been working from home, or wherever. When the weather
is really nice, the wherever can be the porch in the back
yard.
Recycling old MySQL business cards
Originally uploaded by Geert JM VanderkelenWell, we don't have a policy
on what to do with them, so I went creative. Not as creative as
Harrison did (where is that picture???), but I like it. It's
hanging next to my MySQL certificates. Yes, I'm proud on these
things, maybe I'm a bit vain.. But it does look good on the wall
of my storage room.
(btw, this flickr to Google blogging is great!)
A bit of early Sunday morning rhymes at work.. picking up a
support shift (not all you read is true: I do not hug
cups!):
The struggle to wake up,
rubbing eyes and hugging the cup
Picking up the shift,
reading email and hoping for no drift
Reminders better be spam,
this morning I wish it remain calm
Oh little hangover
Why are you here
Oh little fever
It must have been the beer
Still dawn outside,
soon customers awake, and I can't hide
If it all stays online,
all will be good, I'll have a great time,
But something will have failed,
and we'll save folks badly bunkered
Oh five hours of sleep
Why wasn't it longer
Oh in bottles I looked deep
Eight hours, I hope not to linger(penned on 20th January
2008)
Just a quick note to let you know that you can download and test the new MyISAM online backup that is part of the overall new backup utility that is shipping with MySQL 6.0. The backup is native (not logical like a mysqldump backup) and online so you should get no interruptions in activity while the backup is running and it should be faster than logical-styled backups. Download the preview and let the backup team know what you think. Do keep in mind this is a preview release so you may/will find bugs. Finally, kudos to the backup team for getting this out far ahead of the original schedule.