The idea how to speed up nested-loops join a little I've mentioned earlier has now been promoted into a worklog entry. It is now known as WL#3724 "Short-Cutting Join Execution: Speeding up star queries" and its text is publicly available at MySQLForge.
At the moment there is only a short description, but hopefully Martin Hansson (the assigned developer) will add more content there.
After two months of hard work we are proud to announce a new release of XAMPP for Windows and Linux. New in both releases of XAMPP are MySQL (5.0.37), PHP (4.4.6), phpMyAdmin (2.10.0.2), and OpenSSL (0.9.8e). The Windows version also contains up-to-date versions of: FileZilla FTP Server (0.9.23), ADOdb (4.94), and Zend Optimizer (3.2.4).
With XAMPP 1.6.1 we tried to make the Windows version ready for Vista. The beta tests were very successful and most people reported a very smooth XAMPP under Vista but there were also people still having problems. Please get in touch with me if you also encounter problems on Vista. Currently please avoid installing XAMPP into the "Program files" folder.
Get the downloads and more details on the platform specific XAMPP project page.
It works!
mysql>
SELECT s3id from pierce;
+------------------------+
| s3id |
+------------------------+
| ABASEMENT |
...
| ZIGZAG |
| ZOOLOGY |
+------------------------+
992 rows in set (25 min 51.73 sec)
mysql> _
Ok, so it needs to be made a bit faster, but I have some ideas
for that...
One of the keynote panels from the Web 2.0 Expo featured three entrepreneurs of companies that are heavy users of MySQL: Joe Kraus (JotSpot), Mena Trott (SixApart) and Jay Adelson (Digg). It was one of the more interesting discussions dealing with companies at different stages of considering their independence.
This time of year has the MySQL Conference where everyone interested in MySQL, or who are partners, can go to the USA and learn new techniques and features coming out in the up and coming MySQL versions.
Being a MySQL consulting and training partner, this is one of our most important conference and networking times of the year and as such our office will be closed over these 2 weeks.
Cybersite is still contactable through either email or via instant messenger and can help with remote work if time permits. Otherwise, we will be back in Australia at the beginning of May ready to present the knowledge learned at the conference.
Tomorrow morning (11.5hrs time actually) I’ll be on a plane to SFO (then down to Santa Clara) in preparation for the MySQL Conference.
So, if you’re in the area - give us a buzz. My aussie phone will work, as will traditional email.
Also on IRC… should be easy to find me (freenode).
Jay has written
an excellent summary of sessions at the MySQL Conference &
Expo that will be particularly interesting for developers
using MySQL to power their applications or web sites. I noticed
that he did not explicitely mentioned the Perl scripting language,
even though there actually are a few sessions that will be of
interest for the Perl Mongers amongst us (I would not dare to
claim I am one myself, I just hack on it
in my spare time):
Xing is Europe's leading Business Network with more than 2 million members. Recently, Xing announced that they would come up with an API later this year to get access to the network. As far as I know, Xing was developed by ePublica using Perl and MySQL.
Having an API is essential in these mashup days. I was invited to the private alpha test and implemented a reference implementation of an API client via PHP5 which behaves like SOAPClient (but uses ReST as the transport mechanism) and overloads the methods that are available.
Here's an example of how to call it currently (API is …
[Read more]In addition to the MySQL Conference & Expo 2007, which I just registered for (yes, its not too late, register now!), I also registered for the Second Annual Silicon Valley Ruby Conference. Its at The Tech Museum in San Jose (I honestly have no idea where that is from the Hyatt Santa Clara, but I’m sure a nice taxi driver will), and of things that will clearly interest me are:
Day 1
9:15am - 10:15am Full-Stack Web App Testing with Selenium and
Rails - Alex Chaffee
12:30pm - 1:30pm Business Scripting Languages - Asuman
Suenbuel and Murray Spork
2:40pm - 3:40pm ActiveRecord - Evan (Rabble) Henshaw-Plath
Day 2
…
Coincidence? No, serendipity. Last week I was on the bus going back home. This usually takes half an hour so I don’t have much to do except listen to music and think in absurd things like this.
I wondered what would happen if you ask google maps for directions from one place to another if there’s no road between those two. Hector got the answer today. Say you want to go from the new Warp HQ to the MySQL HQ (BTW, I’ve been there today and the sakila dolphin plush is awesome). No problem at all, google knows the way
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