it?s another month, so time for another connector/odbc release.

there?s already three bug fixes that have been committed to the repository for the next release, and the changes to support building on windows x64 should land soon.

we?re down to about 130 open bugs, about 20 less than the last release. some of those were newly fixed, and some were closed because they duplicated earlier problems that had already been fixed. this release does close another bug that is nearly three years old.

one of the things i hope to get fixed for the next release is being able to specify the default character set for the connection. you can?t do this now, so when developers try to use a different default character set …

I've had the site turned off for sometime now.  I just redirected requests for www.bytefx.com to www.bytefx.com/blog.  However, I've been interested lately in putting up some new content so I decided to reactivate the site and thought it would be a good idea to move to the latest version of DotNetNuke.

Well, the first attempt left the side disabled giving some error in the version 4.4 db script about an integer value.  I was  unable to find the error in the log so I'm not sure what the problem was.  So, from there I manually deleted all the database tables and procedures and attempted to setup the "New Install" package of DNN.  Same problem.  Frustrated and wondering if Community Server would setup easier, I tried one last time.  This time I set the objectQualifer to 'dnn4_'.  This is …

We're happy to announce that we have some new members of the Open Sources team of masked banditos. Zack Urlocker of MySQL Savio Rodrigues from IBM Dave Dargo, man of mystery and intrigue Zack started the ball rolling with a post on his recent trip to China.... READ MORE

Solid has released 5.0.41-0073. This release has a number of bug fixes and performance improvements. For the full detailed list of bug fixes and enhancements, please see the ChangeLog.

This is the “collation” release! 5.0.41-0073 supports the UTF8 and UCS2 character sets. In particular, the following collations have been added: {utf8,ucs2}_{bin,general_ci,unicode_ci,swedish_ci}

There is also now full support for all collations in the latin1 character set.

Check it out at http://dev.soliddb.com/download

A good three years ago at the Linux Summit 26-27.2.2004 in the Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, I gave a presentation on “Why MySQL?” together with Osma Ahvenlampi, CTO of Sulake Labs, the creators of Habbo Hotel, one of the world’s largest teen online communities present in 29 countries.

Now, browsing the web pages of COSS, the Finnish Centre for Open Source Solutions, I ran across their …

Well, not very much. I mean, who wants to only scale to hundreds of millions of page views?

Aside from Oracle, that is? ;-)

As Tim notes, MySQL is in the middle of its "12 Days of Scale-out," which is designed to show how MySQL, that little database that could, ...

The 49th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, has been published by Coskan Gundogar on Coskans Approach to Oracle. The slot for the landmark 50th Log Buffer is still up for grabs. Get in touch to take it on and join the big conversation this is LB! Coskan Gundogar’s Log Buffer #49.

By Tim O'Reilly

Working to make clear that it is a database for the big boys, MySQL is running a series of posts on their web site called The Twelve Days of Scale Out. Each day features a different customer who has taken MySQL to the moon. Today's feature (Day 5) covers Wikipedia.

The page quotes Redmonk analyst Steven O'Grady:

"The notion persists within many traditional enterprises that once you reach a certain level of application importance, it is necessary to transition to big, expensive boxes running big, expensive databases. However, free-thinking members of their IT staffs are beginning to ask the question: 'What can we learn from Google, Yahoo, and Wikipedia …

I will be giving a 3 hour tutorial on July 23rd at this year's OSCON entitled "Target Practice: A Workshop in Tuning MySQL Queries". If you attended my tutorial last year, this one is quite different. It's much more of a workshop-type tutorial than last year's lecture-style tutorial, so there's loads of demos, code examples, and I'll have lots of goodies to pass out (books, shirts, etc) for folks who answer questions correctly or shout out interesting questions...

Here's a quick overview of the tutorial:

This tutorial is for all those database developer gun-slingers who want to rid their applications of poorly performing queries and their outlaw cousin, the inefficient schema.

Take aim at poor application performance by learning how to read and understand MySQL …

In the previous post I mentioned not all architectures and solutions work for Commodity People, and people seems to agree with me.
Number of vendors would claim they are in Commodity Software or Hardware business but few would probably mention they are doing it for Commodity People, because few people would like to be called commodity - each of us would like to rightfully think he is special and unique.

Thinking more about the topic I think being "Commodity People Friendly" is one of important properties for commodity products. Look for example at Dell HP or Whitebox x86 servers, they are not only cheaper but they are also easier to use than Mini Computer systems from IBM. Directly attached storage is more simple to use than SAN, MySQL is more simple to use than Oracle or DB2, PHP is more simple than Java.

Even for the same Vendors you can find commodity products are designed to use by commodity people - they tend to be …