The latest from the MySQL community

I’ve decided to publish my patch series. The goal of the -stew patches is to collect things I find interesting and that at some point could (should) make it into the main MySQL tree (even if others don’t think so).

It’s not designed for use in production.. I don’t really care if there’s failing test cases…. if it builds it’s perfect.

It includes the following which could be interesting:

• Removal of ndb_use_exact_count (performance for NDB)
• NDB node status in an INFORMATION_SCHEMA table
• Compressed Backup and LCP for NDB
• Cluster log as CSV
• Skeleton Engine
• MyHTTP Engine
• PBXT Engine
• Skeleton of MyBS support for NDB
  • (in the hope that somebody finishes it)

Currently the additional engines have to be built separately in their storage/ENGINE directories. I have some …

According to a recent Gartner Group survey, CIO?s identified business intelligence and data warehousing as their number two technology priority, up from number 10 just three years ago.

Join us for this presentation MySQL?s data warehousing and business intelligence technical strategy will be unveiled and explained.

MySQL AB today announced that leading Internet and mobile networks security provider F-Secure has signed a MySQL Enterprise Unlimited contract for extensive use of MySQL as its backend database for its security offerings. This morning's announcement was made at the annual MySQL Northern Europe Customer Conference in London.

I am reaching out to mysql experts out there! We just inherited a site which uses MySQL master/slave replication. We set up the master and slaves per MySQL documents and did some of our own tweaking in my.cnf to get things working. Things were great when we were testing the site but [...] …

The new release of MySQL Toolkit (version 1051) updates MySQL Parallel Dump in minor ways, but more importantly, it adds MySQL Parallel Restore. Read on for details.

The past week I have been expanding my C++ knowledge making callbacks using function pointers.. Last month I've put a Django webshop live. Setting up MySQL Cluster with replication and all the jingles and bells: no issue for me. Postfix installations with spam filtering, bah, peanuts.. wxPython GUI hacking my favorite hobby.

But opening the door at the bar, I needed two women explaining me in Finnish how to do it..

.. loosing track of the simplicity from time to time.

Recently Digg linked to an article titled ‘Comcast Caught Filtering Political E-Mails‘.

The short version is that an online special interest group noticed that they were having issues with mail not being delivered when sent to Comcast addresses. They then worked their way though the Comcast abuse department to finally find that Symantec’s Brightmail was filtering on their domain name and identifying all their messages as spam. The cause for the block? 46,000 complaints filed against messages that contained the domain name of the special interest group. Symantec, once contacted was quick to remove the domain from its filters.

There’s a few lessons to be learned here about filtering and deliverability, first let’s look at …

If you’re interested in how these three databases measure up in terms of feature sets, take a look at part one in a two part series I wrote over at Database Journal.

I discuss stored procedures, views, materialized views or snapshots, triggers, and security. Stored procedures and functions are supported on all three databases, as are views and triggers. Although MySQL and Postgres aren’t there in terms of default snapshot support, there are ways to get that functionality in a somewhat roundabout way.

Security is always a tricky question, as all the bugs out there aren’t always publicized. It’s sort of a cat and mouse game. All three databases support user based authentication to login to the database, and various privilege levels to control access to objects and data. Oracle also supports FGA or fine grained access control for …

I was just searching for something and found this MySQL bug report:

Other JDBC drivers I have used make toast for breakfast... MySQL Connector/J doesn't make toast, it can only pour a bowl of froot loops...

...Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug... I believe you should look into a device called a \"toaster\" to make your toast.

Maty Asay points us to .. yet another incomplete list of Open Source events on this planet

Now if one could just make either an RSS feed of this or a create a calender out of it so we can integrated it in our favourite calendaring client. Or just create a group on upcoming and keep that group consistently filled up.

They probably should already add Fosdem.org and Linuxtag.org 2007
as the dates for those conferences are already announced.

They should also keep an eye on Sven Guckes page as he has some updates on events.
and als on Martin Schulzes page

Anyone else knows some locations where to …