After trying very hard to install the Yaws webserver for Erlang on windows, asking 2 friends of mine to try to install it and pleading with the original creator to make an installer, I have given up.

So my very short lived relationship with Erlang has come to an end also. I am just too busy to sit down and learn how to install a program that seems too complicated to me before I even start programming in it.

I hope one day, Yaws will use an installer like Bitrock. Until then, I will spend my time either improving the languages I know or learning new ones that seem cool and not that complicated to get into.

The pre-conference Community Dinner was organized at a conflicting time when the MySQL Community Team was participating to the traditional party at Marten's residence. That was unfortunate, but it did not stop us from participating.
Although the party at Marten's was going awesomely, the Community Team, plus some willing volunteers, went on to crash Arjen's party, with a bag of gifts and a few important guests. The intended PCC (Party Crash Commando) included Kaj, Giuseppe, Colin, and Lenz. Then, Brian Aker, Mark Atwood, and Eric Herman announced that they were attending as well, and while we were on our way, Monty Widenius joined the crashing team.

That would have been enough to make a sensation, but Kaj mentioned the covert operation to Rich Green, who proposed to …

Tolven Inc an Open Source Healthcare Solutions provider recently carried out a benchmark using PostgreSQL on Solaris 10 using ZFS on Sun Fire X4600.  The Benchmark report is now available on their website.

The size of the  single database instance using PostgreSQL 8.2.6 (32-bit) peaked at 474GB with the largest table having more than 500 million rows. More information is in the report.

Tolven's  setup guide for developers which includes information about PostgreSQL  setup is also available on their website.

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I always enjoy #oscon at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention every year. I propose we use #mysqlconf on freenode during the 2008 MySQL Conference. I am there. Come join me.

The Sunday before the MySQL Conference and Expo usually means the party at Marten’s house. This year, some of us arrived there rather early, and also made a beeline for the exit, rather quickly. This despite all the good alcohol, amazing food being served, and the great company of colleagues we hardly ever see. Why?

Some of us wanted to crashattend the MySQL Conf 2008 Community Dinner. And we did! The entire MySQL Community Team was there, as was Brian Aker, Mark Atwood, Monty Widenius, Timour Katchaounov, Eric Herman. We also naturally brought Barton George along (he gave us a ride! Thanks Barton). Oh, and did I mention, Rich Green and …

Were there too many "my"'s in that title? Anyway… this week's MySQL conference is promising to be really busy and exciting. I can't wait to finally be there and experience it in all its glory. Thanks to the O'Reilly personal conference planner and scheduler and the advice of my fellow conference goers, I was able to easily (not really) pick out the speeches I am most interested in attending.

Here goes (my pass doesn't include Monday ):

Tuesday

8:30am Tuesday, 04/15/2008

State of MySQL

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The very first UC related parties are over, and the Users Conference hasn’t even started!

The first one was Mårten’s traditional and well-liked MySQL staff party in his garden. The coolest and most community significant one was the MySQL Community Pre-Conference Dinner party, though, as advertised on MySQL Forge Wiki. So we dropped out of Mårten’s party at six, to meet with the community.

There were 48 registered people, and I think even more turned up. And some of the guys who turned up unregistered were from Sun.

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz crashes the party and is surrounded by community members and MySQLers alike

Rich Green, Executive VP of Software …

It's that time of the year again and I'm in Santa Clara, CA, for the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo. This year, the conference includes a lot more Web 2.0 topics.

The conference starts out with a full day of tutorials. The two tutorials I signed up for are:

• All Bases Covered: A Hands-on Introduction to High-availability MySQL and DRBD
• Memcached and MySQL: Everything You Need To Know

I've made it a point this time to learn about things that I wouldn't normally go to. This includes sessions about testings, benchmarking, and MySQL's information schema.

I'll be blogging about …

Kickfire™, Inc. and Sun Microsystems today announced Transaction Processing Performance Council ? H (TPC-H) benchmark results that break previous price-performance records. The benchmarks were run on Kickfire's new database appliance, which is based on Sun's MySQL™ database. The Kickfire Database Appliance demonstrates the speed of high-performance commercial database systems at a fraction of the cost with an exceptionally small, low-power footprint and the hallmark ease-of-use of MySQL, the world's most popular open source database.

Kickfire is formally launching this week at the MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara, California.