Bob Field posted his reactions to the recent MySQL announcement to offer two versions of the MySQL Server product: Enterprise Server and Community Server. I feel somewhat similarly; the change has the potential to give greater value to both the corporate customers of MySQL and their community users. It will be interesting to see how this develops as we go forward.By making less frequent

MySQL has recently started a campaign of open contribution, inviting the community to participate to the MySQL project in many ways.

The next target, also considering the higer stakes coming from the MySQL Enterprise challenge, will be Quality Assurance.
Quality AssuranceNow what is Quality Assurance (QA)? If you think that it's just bug hunting, then you have a simplistic view of the software generation lifecycle. QA deals with all the steps in the software lifecycle, and at each steps there are actions that can affect the quality of the final outcome. QA components include (but are not limited to) failure testing, statistical control, process and performance control, best practice …

This is the fourth in a series of articles on profiling MySQL. My past three articles have explained how to measure the work a query causes MySQL to do. In this article I introduce a tool I've written to do the work for you and produce a compact, readable report of that work, with all the math already done, and the measurements labelled and grouped for ease of comprehension. With this tool you can understand query performance at a glance.

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Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL is a robust and intelligent solution for live backup and recovery of local and remote MySQL databases. In case you are not familiar with it, take a look at ZRM for MySQL project page.

Key features in 1.1 release
- Backup images can be compressed and encrypted using platform tools
- Custom plugin interfaces for
- Backup encryption
- Pre backup actions
- Post backup actions
- Flexible scheduling
- Binary log parser
- Secure file transfer
- Automatic HTML and Text backup report generation
- Backup reports are available as RSS feed

This is an open source community project. Feel free to check out the project wiki, go to …

This post originally appeared on O’Reilly’s blog. This post originally appeared on O’Reilly’s blog. MySQL provides some tools to monitor and troubleshoot a MySQL server, but they don’t always suit a MySQL developer or administrator’s common needs, or may not work in some scenarios, such as remote or over-the-web monitoring. Fortunately, the MySQL community has created a variety of free tools to fill the gaps. On the other hand, many of these are hard to find via web searches.

Noel Yuhanna, database guru over at Forrester Research, has published a new report "Six Database Initiatives That Can Save Money."  Several of the initiatives are directly related to using open source technology and also fit with our recent MySQL Enterprise announcement, especially the new MySQL Network Monitoring & Advisory Service. 

While it's obvious that eliminating hefty license fees for closed source databases is going to save money, Noel's other ideas can boost the savings even further.  For example, we've seen many customers engage in consolidation or standardization strategy whereby they replace old Informix, Sybase or other obsolete …

I realized earlier that having the MySQL Camp Free Ride offer open for only 24 hours is a bit harsh, and needlessly short. I’ve extended the deadline to midnight, Friday, October 20 to give everyone a chance.

I’ve also clarified that the offer is open to all, not only to students.

Good luck!

So a bunch of stuff has happenned (or happenning) that I’ve been wanting to blog about for a bit. Some stuff had to wait, others it’s just been me being slack.

Anyway, anyone who hangs closely around the MySQL circles probably now knows about MySQL Enterprise. There’s been a fair bit of talk about this internally for a little while now. When it was being talked about a bit wider within the company some of the initial communication was (in my mind) rather unclear. So I took the “what’s the worst way somebody could interpret this” viewpoint and replied with my thoughts. The idea behind this was to simulate what some of the loud-mouthed trolls of the non-shifted question mark e on a qwerty keyboard mapped to dvorak kind may do.
After a few phone calls (some at strange hours) my worst fears were not realised - we were still not being …

As email is *sooo* non-”Web 2.0″, i reply in blog form….
Rusty’s Bleeding Edge Page talks about a “Writing an x86 hypervisor: all the cool kids are doing it!” session that sounds really cool (better not be on at the same time as my talk… :)

I don’t (currently) intend to be one of the cool kids though.

He also mentions a session entitled “First-timer’s Introduction to LCA”. A couple of possible suggestions (or thoughts, and stuff I’ve seen):

• be careful if you intend to bitch endlessly about a piece of software - it’s quite likely you’re talking to the person who wrote it (or a chunk of it)
• sometimes it can be really good to just listen and ask a few good questions to understand. there are a lot of really smart people about
• you will (at some point) ask a really dumb …