Yep, it's true. "MySQL Toolkit" technically infringes on MySQL's trademark. I haven't been given a mandate or cease-and-desist order or anything, but as Marten Mickos (MySQL's CEO) told me, anything that starts with the word "MySQL" sounds like it comes from the company, and this project doesn't come from MySQL.

Suggestions are welcome. I'm totally uninspired. "Toolkit" was the best I could do when I named the project to begin with.

MySQL AB will be exhibiting at next week's Oracle OpenWorld event, November 12-15 in San Francisco; Moscone South Hall, kiosk booth PSP 32.

In the past year, the Independent Oracle Users Group has produced surveys of its membership that show that MySQL is an increasingly popular complementary database within Oracle customers' IT departments. Between one-quarter and one-third of IOUG members report using MySQL in their organizations today -- and a majority plan to grow their adoption of open source database technology in the next year.

For a free copy of the most recent IOUG open source survey, as well as technical MySQL resources for Oracle developers and DBAs, please visit www.mysql.com/oracle.

Thanks to a patch Dane Miller submitted, MySQL Heartbeat can now be used to monitor Slony-I replication lag for PostgreSQL. It works identically: it updates a record on the master and looks for it on the slave. You just have to specify the database driver on the command-line:

mysql-heartbeat [options] --dbidriver=Pg

Most of the tools in the MySQL Toolkit are very MySQL-specific. This one just happened to be an exception, and I'm happy it's useful for more than the original purpose.

Note: Installing Oracle 11gR1 on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex is now published.

After many requests from readers, I’ve put together new, revised version of the Oracle 11g on Ubuntu recipe. This new version is a little different than the first one published: it’s based on a bare-bones install of Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) server version instead of the desktop version. As an improvement, I’ve tried to pare down dependencies to a minimal set.

Your feedback is more than welcome — it’s the main reason why I wrote a new version of this HOWTO. I’ve also tested and repeated this procedure twice. Even so, it might still have problems, so please let me know so we can improve it …

Jim Starkey, Senior Software Architect at MySQL, is featured in an online interview over at Dr Dobb's Journal. It's a short interview, but every question reveals insight into the Jim's thoughts on the relational model, SQL, security, standards and more. For those who don't know Jim, he is one of the pionneers of the database industry and has implemented several relational databases in his career. Jim has always been an innovator, inventing the widely accepted notion of Blobs (binary large objects) and multi-generational versioning, a key innovation of InterBase. Jim and Ann Harrison joined MySQL from Netfrastructure, the company they... READ MORE

Jim Starkey, Senior Software Architect at MySQL, is featured in an online interview over at Dr Dobb's Journal. It's a short interview, but every question reveals insight into the Jim's thoughts on the relational model, SQL, security, standards and more. For those who don't know Jim, he is one of the pionneers of the database industry and has implemented several relational databases in his career. Jim has always been an innovator, inventing the widely accepted notion of Blobs (binary large objects) and multi-generational versioning, a key innovation of InterBase. Jim and Ann Harrison joined MySQL from Netfrastructure, the company they... READ MORE

Jim Starkey, Senior Software Architect at MySQL, is featured in an online interview over at Dr Dobb's Journal. It's a short interview, but every question reveals insight into the Jim's thoughts on the relational model, SQL, security, standards and more. For those who don't know Jim, he is one of the pionneers of the database industry and has implemented several relational databases in his career. Jim has always been an innovator, inventing the widely accepted notion of Blobs (binary large objects) and multi-generational versioning, a key innovation of InterBase. Jim and Ann Harrison joined MySQL from Netfrastructure, the company they... READ MORE

So, I have been putting it off a lot and I decided to do something about it.
This whole blog is supposed to in one part, describe the steps and progress of my project and write some things about my progress with MySQL (and other databases).
I actually did plan to use stored procedures very much when doing my project so the 2 areas are very much connected to one another.


Main Idea

I wanted to make a web-based text game called Shadow People. Shadow people will be a game to do with government agencies and spy organizations.
There will be two different groups of agencies: Government owned/regulated ones and Terrorists/Freelance ones.
If it helps you imagining how it will look like, if anyone saw the series ?"La Femme Nikita" with the actress Peta Wilson.
The game revolves round the cool and secret world of small yet highly effective organizations that either try to keep order in …

By Jesse Robbins

Jonathan Schwartz is treating NetApp's lawsuit over ZFS as an attack on free software. He posted his position and plan for counter-attack to his blog:

Their objectives were clear - number one, they'd like us to unfree ZFS, to retract it from the free software community. Which reflects a common misconception among proprietary companies - that you can unfree, free. You cannot.

Second, they want us to limit ZFS's allowable field of use to computers - and to forbid its use in storage devices. Which is quizzical to say the least - in our view, computers are storage devices, and vice versa [...] . So that, too, is an impractical solution.

We're left with …

Here is a simple configuration file (XML) for MySQL Administrator client.
In addition to the the default graphs I added some new pages containing the most important status variables to monitoring and evaluate the performance of InnoDB.

The new pages are:
idb storage: reads, writes, doublewrites and fsync activity
idb logs:writes to innodb logs and file system activity
idb buffer pool: buffer pool activity
idb disk: pages and rows activity

Just download the file mysqladmin_health.xml.gz then
gunzip it and copy it in the following (default) directory:
(Windows) C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\MySQL
(Linux) ~/.mysqlgui

I hope this could be …