It looks like there's going to be a MySQL Meetup forming in the Phoenix area. A few of us are planning to get together next month for an inaugural meeting. There seems to be any number of people in the Valley of the Sun who are interested in MySQL or related topics, so it will be interesting to see if this meetup gets off the ground and attracts any sort of meaningful membership.

Congratulations today should be give to Fonality who just made one of the best acquisitions of the year.

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/asterisk/fonality-acquires-trixbox.asp

So why is this big news? Trixbox is the distribution for telephony on Linux today. They have put together a vertical Linux distribution dedicated to telephony. It combines Asterisk with a web based interface backed by MySQL, integrated into the SugarCRM solution. As Redhat today is the LAMP of the IT Enterprise and Web Framework, (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP), Trixbox is the LAMP stack of the Telephony market, Linux , Asterisk, MySQL, Perl/PHP.

Fonality just moved into first place for the telephony linux vertical stack, and this is a trillion dollar market, one in which Microsoft doesn't have the technology to …

I have the chance to spend some weeks in the apartment of my friend and colleague Russell Dyer in Milan, Italy. I'll be living and working here for couple of weeks and tour around for 10 days in central Italy later.

This is not my first visit to Italy. I was already in Sorrento and Naples before with MySQL when we had a DevCon there. It is my first time though that I have to buy bread, milk and groceries in Italian shops and try to figure out what they said!
I don't speak a word Italian except for the very basics. Speaking fluently french helps, though my head is getting a mess speaking sometimes 4 languages in a day..

I'll see if I survive, but I'll do great I think!

Btw, first thing that came as a blow to me, or at least my ears: Milan is damn loud! Maybe it's something general in Italy.. I'll check it out.

Here's a quick tip to make a custom Graph in MySQL Administrator.



MySQL Administrator can be separately installed from the MySQL GUI Tool Bundle. Oh yeah, did you know that finding and reporting bugs in the GUI tools might win you an iPOD?

Now, about that tip: it's a documented feature, but not well known nonetheless.

Click the "Health" item in the left sidebar, and choose one of the tab pages:



Once you've opened the page, the right-click is your friend in many ways. Just right-click inside the frame enclosing the graphs to add a …

Today we have released MySQL Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.0.1 beta -- a downloadable plug-in for Visual Studio 2005 that allows Windows developers to quickly build MySQL data-driven applications with Visual Studio. With this plug-in, developers will be able to create, modify and manage MySQL database objects with an easy-to-use interface from within the Visual Studio IDE. This product is delivered as a package compatible with Visual Studio

2005 and delivers the following features:

• DDEX (Data Designer Extensibility) compatibility
• Ability to work with MySQL objects (tables, views, stored procedures, etc) from within Server Explorer

Note
It is critical that this release only be used with Connector/Net 5.0.1. After installing Connector/Net 5.0.1, you will need to make a small change in your machine.config file. This file should be located at …

Here it is, a presentation after my first tests. Open the slides by clicking here. (Or right click, save as...).

The presentation is not exhaustive if it comes to the test results, so if anyone is interested in the log files themselves, you can drop me an email at bram.smulders-at-imtech.nl or post a comment with your email address.

Blog: http://sqlbusrt.blogspot.com/

Project website: http://sqlbusrt.sourceforge.net/

In this blog I have repeatedly mentioned the European Parliament’s upcoming resolution on future European patent policy in general and the European Patent Litigation Agreement (EPLA) in particular. After a long and intense debate, which went mostly unnoticed by the general public, the three largest groups (international-level parties) in the EP - the conservative EPP-ED, the social democratic PES and the libertarian ALDE - yesterday sealed a pretty reasonable compromise.  Since those three groups have about 550 of the chamber’s 732 seats, it’s a mere formality for that compromise proposal to be carried by a solid majority. The vote will take place in Brussels on Thursday of next week (October 12).

Initially, the chief negotiators of EPP-ED and ALDE wanted the EP to say an unequivocal Yes to the Commission’s plans to get the EPLA ratified with the involvement of the EU. At the same time, the PES, Greens/EFA, …

There has a been and continues to be a lot of discussion on the forums for people who are not able to connect to MySQL for one reason or another. Some aspects of this issue have been dealt with, particularly Bill Karwin's article which he published on the MySQLForge Wiki, which I have linked into any number of MySQL Forum threads by now.

I should like to conduct a broader discussion, as to some users, not able to connect does not mean strictly that an initial handshake of any sort could be established with the server, but includes a far broader scope of problems ranging from the server not even being installed let alone running, scripting languages, e.g. PHP, being misconfigured, invalid credentials, or even false …

I recently took two certification MySQL 5 exams. At that time, I was on vacation, but now that I am back I would like to share with the community some advice on how to pass the exams.
Son't worry, it is not about cheating. But read on, and you'll decide if it was worth listening.

1. read the bookSo much for the ones who thought I was teaching some tricks. Nothing like that. Let me tell you why you should read the book.

• You could read the (free) online manual instead. No questions about that. If you read the whole manual, you will know all is needed to pass the exam. But you will have to read twice as much as the book (about 1300 pages of user manual instead of 672 pages of certification book).
  
• The book will tell you what is important for the exam and what isn't. True, even if the …

Applications occasionally require redesign. However, redesigning an application cannot be done in one step because the application is distributed or several versions of applications must be supported. MySQL 5.0 provides the necessary means to stealthy migrate your data. In a short overview let's look at what we plan to do: