The latest from the MySQL community

this is the mysql developers working hard at our developer conference in heidelberg, germany.

okay, not really. this is just a shot of a park on the shores of the neckar river in heidelberg, germany, taken while we were on a boat back from our day-off excursion to the german raptor research centre.

the whole set of photos has more of heidelberg, and some of the birds from the research centre. but no shots of any developers. you will have to wait for the oktoberfest pictures for those.

my wife celia also posted her …

MySQL AB today announced its plans to optimize the MySQL Enterprise Server for the SAP NetWeaver® platform.

At the SAP® TechEd '07 event being held in Las Vegas this week, MySQL and SAP AG also announced that the sales and support of the MaxDB database will revert back to SAP, in order to unify the product's development, distribution and support under one organization. MaxDB (formerly SAP DB) is the database that powers SAP® Business ByDesign(TM), the company's recently-announced on-demand software solution for midsize companies -- in addition to SAP® Business Suite and SAP® Business All-in-One.

This release of MySQL Toolkit fixes some minor bugs, and adds major new functionality to MySQL Parallel Dump. Big News: MySQL Parallel Dump I wrote a lot more tests and cleaned up MySQL Parallel Dump a lot (fixed bugs with failed dumps not being reported, for instance) but the really big news is I added chunking functionality to it. Now you can say mysql-parallel-dump --chunksize 100000 and it will try to divide each table into chunks with 100,000 rows each.

I wanted to point out something that might not be obvious from the name: MySQL Parallel Dump can be used as a generic wrapper to discover tables and databases, and fork off worker processes to do something to them in parallel. That “something” can easily be invoking mysqlcheck – or any other program. This makes it really easy for you to do multi-threaded whatever-you-need-to-do on MySQL tables. Here’s how: mysql-parallel-dump [options] -- 'mysqlcheck --optimize %D %N' There are several things going on here:

From my good friend and anti-spam expert Tobias Eggendorfer, a note that a call for papers is now open for Safety and Security 2008 in Saarbrücken, Germany (2-4 April 2008). Sicherheit 2008 (the German name) is a conference on security and safety in computer science. Its official web page is available at http://www.sicherheit2008.de/.

This conference has a special session on email, voice over IP and SMS spam, chaired by Professor Dr. Jörg Keller, FernUniversität in Hagen (Chair) and Dr. Tobias Eggendorfer, Universität der Bundeswehr München (Co-Chair). The call-for-papers for that component is at http://pv.fernuni-hagen.de/si2008spam/cfp_en.html …

Things start rolling! mysqlnd is among the five most desired features for PHP 5.3 according to a PHP 5.3 Feature Summary email from Ilia, who - at the time of writing - was doing the release management of PHP.

Thanks everybody for your trust in mysqlnd and your support! We shall try not to disappoint you in the future and continue with the development. Of course, as the core feature mature more and more, we will try to spend time on implementing new, useful tricks and try to provide you with additional documentation, if time permits.

Meanwhile we are still looking for your feedback. Tell us about your positive and negative experiences with mysqlnd. Jürgen Krieger did so in his forums posting and concludes And i have to say that the …

Things start rolling! mysqlnd is among the five most desired features for PHP 5.3 according to a PHP 5.3 Feature Summary email from Ilia, who - at the time of writing - was doing the release management of PHP.

Thanks everybody for your trust in mysqlnd and your support! We shall try not to disappoint you in the future and continue with the development. Of course, as the core feature mature more and more, we will try to spend time on implementing new, useful tricks and try to provide you with additional documentation, if time permits.

Meanwhile we are still looking for your feedback. Tell us about your positive and negative experiences with mysqlnd. Jürgen Krieger did so in his forums posting and concludes And i have to say that the …

Dear Kettle fans,

Again, we leave a very busy period behind us (to start another :-)) with this announcement of this first release candidate for version 3.0.0.

Here is a link to the binary zip file and here is the source code.

What has changed since version 3.0.0-M2?

• A new debugger (see also my blog entry on the subject)
• Remote execution of jobs. (see also this wiki page)
• Toolbar New Job/Trans change
• Faster variable insertion through CTRL-SPACE
• JavaScript enhancements for 3.0: (see also …

Things start rolling! mysqlnd is among the five most desired features for PHP 5.3 according to a PHP 5.3 Feature Summary email from Ilia, who - at the time of writing - was doing the release management of PHP.

Thanks everybody for your trust in mysqlnd and your support! We shall try not to disappoint you in the future and continue with the development. Of course, as the core feature mature more and more, we will try to spend time on implementing new, useful tricks and try to provide you with additional documentation, if time permits.

Meanwhile we are still looking for your feedback. Tell us about your positive and negative experiences with mysqlnd. Jürgen Krieger did so in his forums posting and concludes And i have to say that the …

Taking photos is easy. Processing them is hard. By processing I mean, going through them, ditching ones that didn’t quite make the cut, and then uploading them. Note processing does not even mean editing them in The Gimp.

View from the Miraikan, looking towards Daiba, at the UC-J reception
(view the other 31 photos from that night)

The reception was amazing, heaps of people won gifts, and kudos again to the organisers. Drinking black vodka, aka Salmiakki that Monty brought, was definitely a treat for those who rocked up to the reception.

Dinner at Kyotatsu (best viewed …