VMware’s share price may have taken a hit following the launch of Oracle VM but the product has wider implications in the software market. To some extent it is a software appliance play: like Raw Iron without the iron. This question and answer from the Q&A says it all:

“Does Oracle VM require a host operating system?
No. Oracle VM installs directly on server hardware and does not require a host operating system.”

Oracle VM comes with pre-configured virtual machine images of Oracle Database and Oracle Enterprise Linux and is designed to install directly on the …

This release fixes several bugs introduced in the last release as I replaced untested code with tested code -- how ironic! Actually, I knew that was virtually guaranteed to happen. Anyway, all the bugs you've helped me find are now fixed. I also fixed a long-standing bug in MySQL Table Sync, which I am otherwise trying to touch as little as possible for the time being. (Remember to contribute to the bounty, and get your employer to contribute as well, so I can do some real work on it in the next month or so!)

The other big news is that the parallel dump and restore tools are now 1.0.0 because I consider them feature-complete. I have put the most work into tab-separated dumps. These two tools can do something MySQL AB's tools can't currently do: restore data before creating triggers (when doing tab-delimited dumps). That's an obvious …

As of today I have taken over organizing the PHP/MySQL meetup.com group for north Alabama.  Anyone willing to drive into town is welcome to come.  Our first meetup that I will organize will be Monday, December 3, 2007.  I will be posting directions and more info at Meetup.com once they grant me access.

I can tell you that I will be giving mini-talks at the first few conferences about how we do things here at dealnews.  Stuff I have covered on this blog and things I have not gotten into.  I look forward to seeing everyone.

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It is all eric's fault. He infected me with the TDD virus.

After being in the stormy Denmark (like Kris was a two years ago: http://blog.koehntopp.de/archives/941-Blavand-Strand.html ) and seeing the horses getting wet feet (high tide + storm == a lot of fun) I took some time to read "Test Driven Development" by Kent Beck.

The book is very easy to read as it goes tiny steps, very tiny ones. But it does it on purpose. It iterates over the basic principle again and again and again ... until you give up and just do it :)

It is formalizing your development into 4 steps:

• write a failing test …

It is all eric's fault. He infected me with the TDD virus.

After being in the stormy Denmark (like Kris was a two years ago: http://blog.koehntopp.de/archives/941-Blavand-Strand.html ) and seeing the horses getting wet feet (high tide + storm == a lot of fun) I took some time to read "Test Driven Development" by Kent Beck.

The book is very easy to read as it goes tiny steps, very tiny ones. But it does it on purpose. It iterates over the basic principle again and again and again ... until you give up and just do it :)

It is formalizing your development into 4 steps:

• write a failing test …

At Percona we are pleased to announce couple of services which should be helpful to MySQL Community and which are not offered by MySQL, Oracle and other companies I know about.

First we now do Data Recovery for MySQL. We're mainly focused on Innodb with this one because it has distinct page structure which allows good data recovery possibilities even in extreme cases such as melt down file system or broken down RAID. We can undelete Innodb data - Heikki was very nice and treats deleted rows very gently allowing them to be 100% recovered if they were not overwritten yet, as well as recover dropped Innodb tables. We also can get some data recovered from covering indexes and other areas, continually improving our tool set.

This service was mainly created on demand - we had …

I’ll be posting all my new MySQL related content here in an effort to create a single point for all my technical and non-personal content.

This is not one of my big focuses, but I did put together a queue engine many months ago (http://krow.livejournal.com/530752.html).

The semantic idea was that when you SELECT data the person who selects data gets a limited period of time to see the data.

An example is if I inserted 5 records, and then did a "SELECT ... LIMIT 3" I would get three rows. If another user selected data after my data and did a "SELECT ... LIMIT 3" they would only get two records (and this would be the 4th and 5th record).

Right now the period of "exclusion" for reading a record is 60 seconds. Anyone can always fetch and delete a record based on primary key (and you would want to delete records before the 60 seconds are up if you want them removed from the queue). Using triggers you can use a queue table to control for instance the data in an Innodb table. …

Link: Will Success, or All That Money From Google, Spoil Firefox?

"...the Mozilla Foundation has come to resemble an investor-backed Silicon Valley start-up more than a scrappy collaborative underdog. Siobhan O'Mahony, an assistant professor at the School of Management of the University of California, Davis, calls Mozilla 'the first corporate open-source project.'

The foundation has used a for-profit subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation, to collect tens of millions of dollars in royalties from search engine companies that want prominent placement on the browser. And by collecting that money as a war chest to compete against giants like Microsoft and Apple, the foundation has, at least temporarily, moved away from the typical activities of a nonprofit organization. 'The Mozilla community has been a bit hybrid in terms of integrating …

We've kicked off our annual survey of MySQL users recently on the developer zone of the MySQL site. There are some new questions and some old questions so that we can gauge trends over time. For example in last year's survey we saw that: -40% of MySQL users also use Oracle -50% of MySQL users are using MySQL Replication -Over 50% of MySQL users have been using MySQL longer than 4 years -Over 50% of MySQL users plan to increase their usage in the next year We get lots of feedback from our users and customers and the survey is... READ MORE