While I'm doing most of my blogging these days over at InfoWorld, once in a while I'll post something over here that is more about MySQL.  Some folks likely saw our announcement with Virgin Mobile selecting MySQL Enterprise.  This is one in a long series of wins in the telecommunications industry in the last year.  It's been a rapidly growing part of our business and one that I'm …

I am about to embark for my longest trip ever.
I will board a plane on Saturday in my hometown in Sardinia, Italy, heading to Munich. A comfortable two hours flight, to be ended with a business meeting and a traditional Munich dinner, both provided by Kaj Arnö.
The easy part of the trip ends here. From Munich, I will go to Orlando, USA, to the Company Meeting.
After the meeting, a short stopover in Los Angeles, and then the loooong jump to Sydney, which I will be wisiting for the first time. And another first time will be in Melbourne, a few days later, where I will attend the Linux Conf Au, and also present a session about MySQL Proxy during the MySQL MiniConf.

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Coverity Inc, a long time expert in code analysis, has announced their work with the US government Department of Homeland Security to indentify security and quality issues in 11 popular open source projects: Amanda, NTP, OpenPAM, OpenVPN, Overdose, Perl, PHP, Postfix, Python, Samba, and TCL. Coverity has been doing a mix of static and dynamic code analysis in the open source world for quite some time and I've always been impressed with what they've found. In particular, they did an extensive evaluation of the LAMP stack and MySQL a few years back which helped us identify some security risks which... READ MORE

This document offers some tips on how to migrate your Drupal website from a database running on the same server as your web server, to a physically separate database server.

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As days goes by, more and more multi-core systems are popping up everywhere. Infact, with the advent of the new 4-socket quad-core Sun Fire X4450 , 16-core systems are soon becoming common out there.

However,personally, I think these systems are still underutilized from their true potentials.  Of course virtualization is a way of increasing the utilization but  that is like working around the symptoms and not fixing the real problems. Software Applications fundamentally has lagged behind the microprocessor innovations. Operating Systems too have lagged behind too. Solaris, however advanced opertating system has still lot to achieve in this area. For example, yes the kernel is multi-threaded, yes it can scale well easily to 100s of cores but that scaling is generally achieved by creating copies of the process (or multiple connections or multiple threads however you look at it) at the APPLICATION level.  One area however …

Virgin Mobile, a leading Mobile Virtual Network Operator, has implemented a MySQL Enterprise Platinum subscription to manage its data using the world's most popular open source database.

I posted this at the new blog but it never hit Planet MySQL, so we’ll see if posting it here does the trick.

Learn all about it at http://www.mikehillyer.com/mysql/speaking-at-the-2008-mysql-conference-expo/

I was blog-tagged by Doug Burns - his post is here: I *hate* chain letters …. I hate them too, I literally never pass them on no matter what vile fate that condemns me to (so far nothing has happened so maybe those are idle threats). But this one includes a chance to talk about myself [...]

I know it’s a little late, but as this is my first post of 2008 I wanted to start on a high!

After receiving my copy of the MySQL 5.1 Cluster DBA book at Christmas, I spent an hour or so each day with my head engrossed in MySQL Cluster technology, so much so that my goal of reading every Perl book I own (cover to cover) has been somewhat put on hold…

The book was much smaller than I expected, in both physical size and pages (266) which was not a bad thing as I could carry it around if needed, and each chapter could be read within 15-20 minutes, just about right for my attention span

I booked the exam a couple of weeks ago thinking I might need some incentive to fully digest MySQL …

I was eager to read the Open Solutions Alliance open source CEO predictions for 2008, figuring it would have some interesting thoughts and perspectives on the open source year ahead. However, I had no idea the forward-looking statements would apply to me, personally and directly. One did. Adaptive Planning CEO William Soward, in the first response of the OSA predictions report, quotes my colleague Raven Zachary on the discussions we’ve had about open source coverage and my job title. Let me explain.

I was hired by 451 Group a litle over a year ago as an analyst covering enterprise software, and more specifically, open source software. Thus, my title has been: analyst, open source. We’ve found that I’m working …