Welcome to the 68th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Thanks to Paul and everyone else who contributed comments and links to LB#67 (a.k.a., the Log Buffer of Love) when I was down with the common cold. My rhinoviral guest has not abandoned me just yet , but I’m grimly [...]

Yesterday was spent at SLAC's "Extremely Large Database Workshop". It was a great collection of vendors, scientists, and people from Google, Ebay, Yahoo, etc.

Vertica's Michaell Stonebraker was present. Ever since I read the C-Store that he wrote I have been wanting to ask him about his thoughts on the differences between covering indexes and column store.

In a column store the values are stored separately, and queries are resolved by searching a particular column. This gives you less data to read when you need particular set of columns, and allows your to compress the Indexes very nicely assuming that the data is not entirely random.

MySQL has covering indexes. When you do a …

My google summer of code project called MyWebER is going to die. The reason - I have no time to proceed developing it. I have a lot of ideas, but not sure that I’ll find any time to implement them.

As I can see, MySQL AB is not interested in this project. If anyone wants to help me - you’re welcome.
“Skilled JavaScript developers are wanted.” (C)

I’m not sure how long this has been out there, but there is a new (to me) headline on Oracle’s support website, announcing that next month, they will be phasing out “manual configuration” information for service requests. Customers are now required to download and install something called Oracle Configuration Manager (OCM), which will gather their system/database [...]

A while back, I had talked about the issues I had with my
EVDO express card purchase and my macbook pro, a lot of you asked me to sum up my experiences with the card, and to comment on whether the speeds are worthy of being a primary connection or not, so here’s my answer.

Definitely, maybe.

I know, such definitive answers make me sound like a politician don’t they? Well.. politicians would probably skirt the question completely..
Here are my experiences with the Sprint USB card since late June 2007.

EVDO/3G data cards and plans are the most liberating technology ever sold. Seriously.

I am no longer confined to the house. I am no longer confined to starbucks and other places with stable wifi (Panera) (usually).
I can work, or play anywhere …

I was invited to talk at the OpenFest in Sofia, Bulgaria, and I gladly accepted.
Despite having worked four years in Balkan states, I have never been to Sofia before, and I welcome the chance.
I will present a session about Getting started with MySQL Proxy. The Proxy has advanced a lot since I wrote the getting started article, not only in terms of development (it has!) but also in terms of acceptance and experimentation.
I will show some consolidated usage, and some magic, which is good for advertising.
Since this is my first visit to Bulgaria, I got to learn some words of the local language. And since I was at it, I taught some to the Proxy as well.
How?
I won't anticipate anything, but the Proxy …

When Sun Microsystems released the ZFS filesystem in 2004, they set out to remove all of the practical limits on filesystem storage, and to make the arcane details of storage management a thing of the past. ZFS is a 128-bit filesystem with - to name just a few features - copy-on-write transactional semantics, fast snapshots, and optional compression.

Trolltech announces quarterly results. Pentaho expands European presence. SCO finds a buyer. (and more)

Trolltech delivered 44 % revenue growth, Trolltech (Press Release)

Pentaho Expands European Operations, Pentaho (Press Release)

FSMLabs Lowers Latency for Wall Street with Real-Time Networking Stack That Guarantees Network Bandwidth & Task Execution, FSMLabs (Press Release)

NY investment management company offers to buy SCO for $36M, Daily Herald, Grace Leong (Article)

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Black Duck has admitted to "borrowing" Palamida's database of open-source projects/licenses, without giving attribution or any other indication that it had taken the data from Palamida. Legal? Yes. Wrong? Seems like it to me.

After two days of intense investigation, we have confirmed that most of our database ...

It looks like Paul is at it again with an update to the MyBS engine. This time around, the focus was on JDBC and represents some significant strides for the project. I usually like to benchmark some of the new features and things, but being that these days I dabble mostly with PHP, I opted this time around to describe more specifically how I have approached using MyBS. I am not sure if I am using it in the way Paul my have intended, but even so, it is a fun little exercise and can quickly show the performance of both MyBS and PBXT.

So, the way in which I have deployed MyBS in my test configurations is by using Apache's ProxyPass module. I have been using my photo album module on my …