One of our product managers sent around a link to the site www.crankypm.com which describes the fictional life of a product manager at a mythical software company.  Having read a few of the essays on "A Day in the Life" and "All the Responsibility and No Authority" I think it's a pretty accurate description of life in the trenches in product management. 

Product Management is not an easy job, but its an …

MySQL Connector/Net 5.0.6 a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released.
This is a bug fix release for the current production branch of Connector/Net.

 
Version 5.0.6 is suitable for use with any MySQL version including MySQL-4.1, MySQL-5.0, MySQL-5.1 beta or the MySQL-5.2 Falcon "Preview".
It is now available in source and binary form from the Connector/Net download pages at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/5.0.html and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point of time - if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)

 
This release comes shortly after 5.0.5 due to an incompatibility with Tools for Visual Studio.  With 5.0.5, we changed how the connector respects binary data …

New research data shows increased MySQL usage by developers…GoDaddy donates cash to two open source projects…open source mobile company Funambol releases survey data on mobile email…and more…

MySQL Gains 25% Market Share of Database Usage, Latest Evans Data Survey Shows, Evans Data (Press Release)

Funambol Study Reveals Millions of Consumers to Start Using Mobile Email Shortly, Funambol (Press Release)

World’s Domain Name & Hosting Leader Backs Open Source Community - GoDaddy.com Donates $10K to Both Joomla & Simple Machines, GoDaddy.com (Press Release)

CollabNet partners with …

<p>Recently the question came up if it is faster to restore a MySQL cluster when all nodes are up or only ONE node from each node group during restore.</p> <p>The answer from our gurus was: All nodes up during restore! I wanted to find out why. So I set up the following cluster and started to measure:</p>

Recently the question came up if it is faster to restore a MySQL cluster when all nodes are up or only ONE node from each node group during restore.

The answer from our gurus was: All nodes up during restore! I wanted to find out why. So I set up the following cluster and started to measure:

MySQL Cluster set up

MySQL Cluster backup

The backup is not that interesting. But I made the drawing for possible future use :-) :

MySQL Cluster restore

For the restore there are 4 different ways thinkable:

• Restore with all nodes up and all 4 backup pieces are restored in sequence. (1a)
• Restore with all nodes up and all 4 backup pieces are restored in parallel. (1b)
• Restore with 1 node of each node group down and all 4 backup pieces are restored in sequence. (2a)
• Restore with 1 node of each node group down and all 4 backup pieces are restored in …

Solid has released 5.0.27-0064. This release has a number of bug fixes and enhancements. For the full detailed list of bug fixes and enhancements, please see the ChangeLog.

Some highlights include:

• Obtain version number. You can now see which version of solidDB for MySQL you are running with the “show status” command. In order to not break existing applications which rely on it, the version number of MySQL server on which solidDB for MySQL is built upon can still be determined by using the “select version()” function.

mysql> show status like 'solidDB_version';
+-----------------+---------------------+
| Variable_name   | Value …

One of our product managers sent around a link to the site www.crankypm.com which describes the fictional life of a product manager at a mythical software company.  Having read a few of the essays on "A Day in the Life" and "All the Responsibility and No Authority" I think it's a pretty accurate description of life in the trenches in product management. 

Product Management is not an easy job, but its an …

Today, March 22nd, is Bum Rush The Charts Day.  This is a day during which thousands of independent podcasters and bloggers will attempt to show the strength they have compared to traditional corporate media. How?  By making an indepedent single the #1 item on iTunes.  You can support this effort by buying the song "Mine Again" by Black Lab, a band that was dropped from two labels and had to fight back to get the rights to its own music.  Every commission made on the sale of the song is being donated to support college scholarships and 50% of the royalties the band earns will also be donated.  If you believe in podcasting and …

From time to time, MySQL employees are approached with proposals from universities and other research institutions about MySQL participating in research programmes financed by governmental initiatives in the US and in the EU. This is much appreciated. Often, there is a mutual interest, where

• academics need an industrial partner to anchor the results of the research into a real-world application and even to fulfil the requirements of getting a grant, and
• the MySQL user community needs new features in MySQL Server, or in the Connectors enabling the use of MySQL from various development environments.

Left: MySQL University refers to the highest form of education when it comes to learning how to develop MySQL Server (as opposed to using it). It’s opening up for the MySQL …