Last week’s Wednesday (seems like ages ago, and I haven’t got any blogging time since), the Sun MySQL Meetup-Mashup World Tour got to Paris.

The Meetup-Mashup gets a local flavour wherever we are. And the local flavour in Paris was an Irish Pub, where we had an intimate meeting with a good 160 of the closest friends of MySQL.

We had some bière gratuite (free beer) to celebrate the logiciels libres (free software), as well as a presentation by Giuseppe, after a brief introduction by myself and followed by an overview by Sun.

I had good encounters with old friends and made some new ones. Damien Seguy from Nexen.net belong to the oldest, and our discussions ranged …

Today I just happen to read May 2008 edition of Dr.Dobb’s Journal printed edition and the article “Kernel-mode Databases” written by Andrel and Alexander from McObject really excited me.

The basic principle of any database engine is its performance and scalability and success of any database in most part relays on these two concepts. To achieve this, operating system kernel plays a major role in the form of …

• resource allocation
• thread scheduling
• low-level hardware access
• network
• security

So, looks like eXtremeDB try to overcome from this by releasing kernel-mode database. The kernel mode package actually overrides most of the kernel access calls that database engine expects by replacing with optimized …

The MySQL Users Conference is just about to start. With MySQL now part of Sun, it is infusing a lot of energy and enthusiasm into MySQL and the conference. This is shaping up to be the best MySQL conference ever. If this is your first conference, here are my top 10 things I recommend you do to get ready for the conference: 1) Solidify your personal schedule and set backups in case a room is

Well, I'm pretty much packed, catching flights tomorrow. VirginBlue/United via Sydney. And in good tradition, I will arrive in San Francisco about 3 hours before I depart ;-) the joys of the dateline!
See you all there!

(Wow, the Sunday night dinner RSVP list is at 47 people now! No worries, the restaurant has enough space, do sign up and join us!)

After Microsoft released its beta version of “SQL Server Data Services“; I was more interested to know what kind of considerations were taken care in the design and architecture of SSDS in order to get performance, distribution of data and scalability as it is developed on top of SQL Server.

To my surprise, I noticed Microsoft is conducting the live event to answer some of these questions by following up Ryan Dunn blog; Today I also got the confirmation to attend the event and I look forward to get some of my general questions answered.

It will be interesting to see the pricing model of SSDS in the coming days, and might even attract if they make it FREE for initial customers and/or by setting the limit on the data usage by …

MySQL UC is coming up in a few days and I already flew in today (friday).

What a lucky day. Not only it is nice and warm today in San Francisco, no, I also got upgrade to Business to could sleep every well in those cozy seats. The 747 was packed and looks like to had to kick out some frequent flyers to Business to get everyone in. Well, glad I could help.

Now I'm in the 21st floor of the Hilton looking over the Bay to Alcatraz, to Telegraph Hill and Embarcadero. Life is tough.

For monday, expect a nice tutorial on MySQL Proxy given by Giuseppe and me and another session on Proxy on Thursday. See you in Santa Clara.

We have been focusing on providing the best possible backup solution for following scenario: 100 GB+ of data stored in MySQL database, Transaction intensive workload (i.e. rapid rate of change of data), with a business requirement to be able to perform point-in-time restoration of the MySQL database. Oh, the solution also needs to take into account that the database can grow to 1TB or more very quickly.

For such a scenario, we believe that the best possible solution today is a combination of:

1. Storage level snapshots - a capability built into ZFS (Solaris), NetApp, LVM (Linux), VxFS, and VSS (Windows)
2. Transaction logs generated by MySQL
3. Point-and-click restore capability provided by Zmanda Recovery Manager for MySQL

Two reports came out today which go into nitty-gritty of above. First is a joint report written by …

Ponder ponder... you work it out and answer!

MySQL UC is coming up in a few days and I already flew in today (friday).

What a lucky day. Not only it is nice and warm today in San Francisco, no, I also got upgrade to Business to could sleep every well in those cozy seats. The 747 was packed and looks like to had to kick out some frequent flyers to Business to get everyone in. Well, glad I could help.

Now I'm in the 21st floor of the Hilton looking over the Bay to Alcatraz, to Telegraph Hill and Embarcadero. Life is tough.

For monday, expect a nice tutorial on MySQL Proxy given by Giuseppe and me and another session on Proxy on Thursday. See you in Santa Clara.

It's been four years since I started working with open source software and started on the journey to create opentaps Open Source ERP + CRM. Sometimes I look back and think about all the things that have happened, and what I've learned from the open source experience, which is a lot, but a few things stand out:

It's All About Great Software

When you give away the code, there's nothing left to hide. People can -- and will -- judge every aspect of your software: stability, ease of use, code quality, even architecture. Because of this, open source software tends to stand much more on merits. This is why you often will see new open source projects leapfrog past projects with big-name backers or lots of hype.

There is Only One Community

It took me three years to figure this one out: when you create open source software, you're not off on an …