MySQL AB today announced the election of a new independent member to its board of directors: Dana Evan, CFO and executive vice president of Finance and Administration for VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN).

The initial MySQL Build Farm scripts are now available on the Forge wiki. If you are interested in participating in the Build Farm initiative, feel free to download the scripts and trying them out. Right now, we are still working out how the scripts should interact with the main MySQL internal pushbuild system. But, we need folks to set the scripts up on their host computer and provide input on the scripts and test them.

Interested in participating? Enlist your spare machine on the Forge wiki.

In the community spirit of doing, not talking, we've established a new Google Group for the Community Doxygen Project. Currently, there are seven team members in the project:

• myself
• David Shrewsbury
• Frank Mash
• Ronald Bradford (arabxptyltd)
• Baron Schwartz (xaprb)
• Nicklas Westerlund
• Kristofer Pettersson

If you are interested in contributing to this project, which is an excellent way to immerse yourself in the MySQL source code and get your feet wet, feel free to navigate to the Google Group link above and click on the "Join this group" link. You'll receive an email from the group once your name is added. The mailing list will be used to communicate all goals and coordinate …

The SQLyog GUI for MySQL has always been an excellent tool for MySQL developers and administrators and one that I have watched for several years now. The developers are a good bunch of guys and I’ve been able to talk to them over the years at the MySQL User Conferences. At this year’s conference, the Webyog guys let me in on a secret: they were making an Open Source edition of their Webyog software!

Well, after several months of preparation (you don’t just slap a license on and release a commercial product as open source), the waiting is over and there is now a Community Edition of SQLyog!

You can see a nice, clear summary of the differences between their community edition and their commercial Enterprise edition at http://www.webyog.com/en/sqlyog_feature_matrix.php. As you can see, they …

Continuing on from Tutorial 2.

When reviewing the 2.1. C/C++ Coding Guidelines for MySQL, you will see that the MySQL Source uses within the C/C++ code DBUG (Fred Fish’s debug library). This is one of the 3rd party open source products that are documented in the Internals 1.4. The Open-source Directories.

You will also find some usage in the MySQL Manual E.3 The DBUG Package. So enough talk, how do you use this.

DBUG

You get the DBUG output by running a mysqld debug version with the argument –debug. The output …

In "The J2EE guy still doesn't get PHP", Harry Fuecks suggests that PHP really needs [someone] to get together and write a detailed paper on how it works and why PHP scales so we can all live happily ever after.

I could not agree more.

At the 3rd European Workshop on Aspects in Software last week, I was confronted with questions that could have easily been answered by refering to a paper like this. If a paper such as this existed.

In "Things That Have No Name", …

In "The J2EE guy still doesn't get PHP", Harry Fuecks suggests that PHP really needs [someone] to get together and write a detailed paper on how it works and why PHP scales so we can all live happily ever after.

I could not agree more.

At the 3rd European Workshop on Aspects in Software last week, I was confronted with questions that could have easily been answered by refering to a paper like this. If a paper such as this existed.

In "Things That Have No Name", …

In "The J2EE guy still doesn't get PHP", Harry Fuecks suggests that PHP really needs [someone] to get together and write a detailed paper on how it works and why PHP scales so we can all live happily ever after.

I could not agree more.

At the 3rd European Workshop on Aspects in Software last week, I was confronted with questions that could have easily been answered by refering to a paper like this. If a paper such as this existed.

In "Things That Have No Name", …

Greg points out a section which he found interesting in the Google Bigtable paper:

For example, we have seen problems due to all of the following causes: memory and network corruption, large clock skew, hung machines, extended and asymmetric network partitions, bugs in other systems that we are using (Chubby for example), overflow of GFS quotas, and planned and unplanned hardware maintenance.

The partition asymmetry issue should be obvious. If one section of your cluster is too slow you're going to see throughput fall. Hung machines is another. The distributed filesystem I wrote last year (and will eventually opensource once I get time to finish it) handled hung machine situations.

Here are a few more I can think of.

Memory corruption without ECC …

Bangalore, India - Webyog announced this week that its widely popular product SQLyog - an advanced graphical client for administration of MySQL databases, will be released under the Open Source GPL license. The first Open Source version (version 5.2 Beta) can be downloaded now from the company?s website: www.webyog.com.