There’s an interesting dynamic going on right now in the DBA world. MySQL’s growth and installed base, as a function of its size three or five years ago, is perhaps five if not ten times larger than it was. In 2002 when Pythian’s MySQL services launched, we took on the platform at the explicit request [...]

I just read a fascinating article on clustering architectures for databases from Kevin Closson of Polyserve (now HP). Kevin, for those of you who don’t know him, is a Golden God, at least according to StorageMojo Robin Harris, but all I can say is that he has one of the most informed and incisive views [...]

Released a new version of the procedure converter from SQL Server to MySQL. The changes are driven by user requests.

I have added support for temporary table creation: in SQL server you create a temporary table by adding INTO #temptable to your select. This is converted to MySQL CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE and the # is dropped.

Also some minor changes, like support for very large SQL statements, better pretty-printing and improved support for CASE statements.