.. is not so easy. I have been traveling for 4 weeks in USA, then this weekend I was at a wedding back in Germany. This weekend I will be trying out for the German national mixed frisbee team at the BUM (I rate my chances of making it pretty low - injured finger, never found a top level team I wanted to play in, which means that all the top level players do not know me that well .. and unfortunately I am also simply not that uber-good .. but hey I can try).

The following weekend I was also planning on going to play frisbee at the HUT in Halle, but since I will be in Norway the following weekend and the Netherlands the weekend after that, I guess I should really skip Halle. So I will try to go out and buy a bed, mattress, table and a cupboard or …

It seems the slides that generated the most interested in my recent "Database meets OOP" talk were the ones on how to model inheritance inside your RDBMS. I wanted to mention two (and a half) additional approaches.

The first one I have no real experience with and is native inheritance support that can be found in Object-Relational DBMS (not to be confused with Object-Oriented DBMS, which are not relational). PostrgreSQL is a shining example of this, so they have native support for inheritance. Actually the PostgreSQL docs mention that since SQL99 inheritance is part of the spec, not sure if anyone has implemented it though. From my reading it looks like its just a convenience feature to spare you from having to writing joins (when fetching data from a child …

It's pretty cool to see link to your blog posted on a .gov domain :)

frankmash.blogspot.com is another one of my blogs where I post sometimes.

SAP Chairman and co-founder Hasso Plattner has been out discussing how SAP is redefining itself and investing in building the next generation of Web 2.0 software for the Enterprise.  SAP has been out doing a few acquisitions in recent months, presumably to accelerate the pace of change.  While SAP has long been a quiet supporter of open source technology and investor in companies like MySQL and Zend,

Plattner is down right enthusiastic about opening up processes to have more community involvement and a more accessible hosted approach.  Plattner cited Google and Salesforce.com as a good models of how to rapidly deliver high quality information to users.  SAP is investing heavily in a new initiative known as A1S, which is a new online hosted offering based on a collaborative service-oriented architecture (SOA).

• CNet: …

Well there hasn't been any actual coding work done yet, this is just the project setup phase. This blog is connected to the Google Summer of Code 2007 Project "MySQL Auditing Software", the project page can be found at this link.

The project team is composed of myself, Umair Mehmood and the project mentor, Sheeri Kritzer. We'll be holding a conference call this Friday on Skype in order to exchange notes and design ideas.

I already have a fair idea of how this software can be designed, based on discussions with the project team members and research done into similar products I believe that a design based on passive packet capture is a good way to go. The resulting captured data can then be interpreted and reformed in whatever way we see fit before being passed on to the database servers.

The consulting load keeps increasing so we’re looking for some help.

This job would be perfect for someone interested in high performance and scaling with decent knowledge of MySQL and eagerness to learn more.

We do encourage people from all countries to apply.

For the intensely curious, these are the final results from DEV, DBA and Cluster certification examinations at the MySQL Conference 2007.

Progress slows this week. Got hung up on a few things.

Since last update:
- Fixed a ton of bugs.
- Got the state machine working. Supports only a subset of commands right now, but easily extended.
- Lua is used to establish listener connections
- Lua callback structure
- Planned lua API in more detail.

After a lot of thought I've come up with a simple lua "interface"


callback = {}

function got_new_client(c)
print "Got a new client! Yay!"
callback[c:id()] = {["Received Command"] = start_new_cmd, ["Waiting for Command"] = end_cmd}
end

function setup_listener(c)
callback[c:id()] = {["New Client"] = got_new_client}
end

myp.new_listener("127.0.0.1", 5500, setup_listener)

etc.

Calling myp.new_listener() is a C function to start a new bind …

Today I tried to add this little function to our impekkable List template:

template
inline
List::List(const List &rhs, MEM_ROOT *mem_root)
:base_list(rhs, mem_root)
{
/* Make a deep copy of each element */
List_iterator it(*this);
T *el;
while ((el= it++))
it.replace(new (mem_root) T(*el));
}

That is, for the referecne, the default copy constructor for List template is shallow.
So, I needed a _normal_ copy constructor. I don't want to rewrite the existing one -- it is used eveywhere (and don't ask me how one can make any sane use of a shallow copy constructor of a container - because all the usages are insane).
And here we go - this won't compile:

sql_list.h: In constructor ‘List::List(const List&, MEM_ROOT*) [with T = Item]’:
item.cc:6917: instantiated from here
sql_list.h:581: error: cannot …

This massive fix has been pushed into 5.1.19 and so far I cannot repeat any crashes!! Well done Ingo and reviewers ! My testing continues!

changing key_buffer_size on a running server can crash under load