I recently got this email from a reader on my site and since I haven't posted for a while, I thought it might be a good discussion:

Jay,

I've been reading your site and had a question that you might have good insight for.  

I'm working on a high-traffic website that includes forums.  All the code is custom PHP, including the forums, simply because the PHP BB software out there doesn't scale as large and as well as I wanted.  I've implemented heavy memcached usage, distributed databases, etc. to handle any level of growth we may hit.

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I recently got this email from a reader on my site and since I haven't posted for a while, I thought it might be a good discussion:

Jay,

I've been reading your site and had a question that you might have good insight for.  

I'm working on a high-traffic website that includes forums.  All the code is custom PHP, including the forums, simply because the PHP BB software out there doesn't scale as large and as well as I wanted.  I've implemented heavy memcached usage, distributed databases, etc. to handle any level of growth we may hit.

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Good things come in threes, as EnterpriseDB confirmed today. The company today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series C round, including backing from IBM. With $37.5 million in funding to date, EnterpriseDB isn't hurting for cash.

This, however, has not been EnterpriseDB's primary problem. It's not cash that it has lacked, but open-source cachet. Its story of "Oracle performance and interoperability at a fraction of the cost" is a winner, but it was muted by its lack of a compelling open-source story.

That just changed.

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Last week I blogged about the upcoming MySQL Users conference, in particular about the Writing MySQL UDFs tutorial that I will be delivering.

I will also be doing the Grand Tour of the Information Schema and its Applications.


I will discuss the elements in the MySQL information schema, and provide tips to write queries against it. Most of the talk …

While this year’s OSBC event has actually started yet, the big news on day one looks set to be EnterpriseDB’s announcement that IBM has joined existing investors in a $10m Series C funding round (EnterpriseDB also announced its new Postgres Plus strategy and the open sourcing of GridSQL).

IBM’s investment in EnterpriseDB is particularly fascinating given how rare it is for the company to make venture capital-style investments and also given the dynamic between IBM, Sun and Oracle. IBM usually chooses to support startups indirectly through its …

EnterpriseDB just raised $10M in Series C financing. IBM joined the list of investors including Fidelity Ventures, Valhalla Partners and Charles River Ventures. To date, EnterpriseDB has raised $37.5M (compared to the $39M that MySQL had raised in total after Series C). EnterpriseDB uses the slogan "The Oracle-compatible database company". While I wish Andy and the folks at EnterpriseDB the best, the challenge is that Oracle's high end products aren't in danger of losing to OSS competition. Next, in the majority of Oracle deals, Oracle isn't selling a database anymore. They are selling a database, an application server, tools and... READ MORE

Point your browsers to forge.mysql.com.

• MySQL Forge is the directory for projects related to MySQL.
• New MySQL functionality under work is described on the Forge Worklog.
• New Forge 2.0 features includes site-wide search, commenting and voting.
• Forge 2.0 hence sports ranking of projects.
• Forge 2.0 has a new people section with profiles and listings of contributed tools.
• The tools section is a code and tool repository for smallish code snippets.
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64 bit MySQL (5.0) is now integrated into OpenSolaris. It will be available in build 87. 64 bit should work with 32 bit generated data-files and vice versa, although MySQL recommends you to do a full dump and reload, at least in production.

To enable the 64 bit server in SMF do:

% svcadm disable mysql:version_50
% svccfg                                               
svc:> select mysql:version_50
svc:/application/database/mysql:version_50> setprop mysql/enable_64bit=true
svc:/application/database/mysql:version_50> quit
% svcadm refresh mysql:version_50
% svcadm enable mysql:version_50

Also check out the latest Netbeans 6.1 beta with integrated MySQL support.

Do you want to apply for a MySQL project under Google Summer of Code?
Please read these instructions carefully, then.

State the project you want to tackle in the application title.

Using a title like John Doe's info or application for MySQL are unlikely to attract the mentors attention or to make a good first impression.

State your view of the project

Simply repeating what is in the ideas page won't get you any marks. Say what you would like to do in your own words.

Explain why we should choose you

And be persuasive! The best way to persuade us is by showing a clear analysis of the project. A list of famous names that have praised your work will not impress us.

Don't over-represent yourself

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