People are sometimes contacting me and asking about bugs like this which provide a trivial way to crash MySQL to the user with basic privileges and asking me what to do.

My answer to them is - there is nothing new to it and they just sit should back and relax

Really - there are many ways to crash or otherwise made unavailable server with any MySQL version if you have access to it with normal privileges. We're constantly helping people to fix mistakes in the applications which make MySQL Server useless (though few of them cause crashes to be honest) so obviously it is even easier if you have intent.

In my opinion MySQL Security should be treated the following way - if you do not allow any access to MySQL Server you are reasonably secure. There were few attacks which did not require valid MySQL account and they have been normally treated …

Jim Starkey, who joined MySQL through our acquisition of his company Netfrastructure, has been working along with his team on the Falcon storage engine, which is part of MySQL 6.0, currently in alpha.  Jim has a history of introducing significant innovations in database technology throughout his career including his work on Blobs and multi-generational storage (or MVCC).  Right now the focus of the Falcon team is on optimizing performance for modern multi-core CPUs with large amounts of memory.  We're seeing some pretty significant performance gains that will come out over the next few months. And there's still a lot of untapped potential in what Falcon will be able to do going forward.

Jim took some time out of his schedule to …

Reason #257 to work at MySQL. You get invited to the company meeting in Orlando, Florida, next January. If you follow a MySQL’er on Dopplr, for instance, you might see that they’re all generally away in Orlando, during the 15-19 January 2008.

Well, the whole company, naturally cannot be there… MySQL has essential services, like support and IT infrastructure that must continue to hum along, while the rest of the company enjoys a few days of sunny Florida.

I don’t exactly know what’s planned, but one can imagine team building exercises, internal team meetings, and quite possibly teams meeting other teams (to increase team interoperability and efficiency). It seemed to have worked well at the Heidelberg DevMeeting, so I presume it’ll scale well for a much larger group. And of course fun - good dinners, great company, and plentiful drinking I’m sure will ensue.

Highly excited I …

Gosh I really love that word “open”.  When I hear it, I just get all warm inside.  I’ve always liked that Oracle used the word in it’s big annual conference name.  And this year’s show is bigger than ever.  I heard a rumor that there were 50,000 people here this year.  With an ever increasing round of acquisitions, the exhibitor and user communities just keep growing.

As you can see from this photo, they’ve totally blocked off Howard Street.  The video billboard there is at the 3rd street end.  I managed to catch it showing a frame of an open world!

Behind the billboard are tents where the lunchtime cafeteria was, because all the other square footage is now taken by exhibitors big and small.

And wow, were there a lot of vendors.  Even MySQL AB was here, as I blogged about …

All webforums should have an NNTP and an IMAP interface. And just saying "We have RSS!" or "We have Atom!" doesn't cut it. With much baroqueness, overhead, XMLness, and waste, you/we are laboriously building and using environments that supply 10% of the function of NNTP, at 10x the effort.

I fight with the MySQL forums, and wish for an NNTP/IMAP interface. I sort out the "mailboxes" on various social network sites, and groan, wish that I could just point my IMAP client at them.

Public discusion forums, such as GoogleGroups, YahooGroups, eBay forums, BoingBoing, LJ journals and communities, Slashdot, MySQL forums, plus all the precanned turnkey webforum software, and all the political rant cesspools, from LGF to DK, all of you: NNTP or IMAP. Now.

If your answer is "but then, people won't see my ads", you're a fool. Anyone clueful enough to run a reader client is already running Adblock, and so …

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 …