We held the first ever MySQL Camp "un-conference" last week and it turned out to be a great success.  Kudos to Jay Pipes from our Community team for putting together this great event. There were over 200 registered attendees contributing ideas, sharing best practices techniques and generally geeking out on MySQL.  It was great to have attendees from some of the heavy-duty MySQL users like FaceBook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Flickr, SixApart, AdBrite and many others mixing in with key developers, consultants and SEs from MySQL.  We also had a few of our partners there including Hyperic, Proven Scaling, Solid, Zmanda, Zimbra and even Ken Jacobs (" …

A great post by Pete Lacey about SOAP and the problems one WILL encounter when trying to use it and understand it. Please someone make it go away!

My initial posting about using Zeroconf host names and Virtual Appliances on wasn’t quite complete…

It should be added that in order for Zeroconf-assigned host names (ie. in the form of https://mysql.local.) to resolve on Windows, it is necessary to install Apple’s Bonjour package.  Without this, the system is unable to resolve Zeroconf host names.

For modern Linux distributions, the nss-mdns GNU Name Switch Service (NSS) plugin is necessary …

MySQL Connector/ODBC is our next generation ODBC driver which allows access to the MySQL server using the ODBC standard - a cross-platform, cross-database C Call Level Interface. This version is being released to get community feedback but is NOT suitable for production environments. It is now available in binary form from the Connector/ODBC download pages at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/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.)

Install Notes

Please uninstall any existing Connector/ODBC v5 before installing this version.

Changes

• FIX: length now used when handling bind parameter (needed in particular for …

At our MySQL Camp Jay and Brian pitted off in the Umbrella Joust. Not sure if there was a winner, or a looser, but in the end no blood was split (except Leslie, but that’s another story).

See these and more camp photos at Flickr.

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Zmanda specializes in backup and recovery solutions. First they gave the world Amanda, and now they've given MySQL users a new reason to rejoice with the launch of Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL. I recently got to speak to Paddy Sreenivasan, the Vice President of Engineering and co-founder of Zmanda Inc., amidst his busy schedule, about what they do and why MySQL users should be jumping towards ZRM for MySQL for all their backup & recovery needs.

Running RPM based or other packaged MySQL Binary you may have a problem if you would like to rebuild binary for some reason - change some build settings, apply some third party patches or simply try latest snapshot (This time I was both applying patches for Innodb scalability and Vadim's patches to get proper slow query log). There are number of things as default paths and GCC build and link options you would like to keep the same as in original binary to minimize the change and finding this was not pleasant.

This time however Vadim advised me better solution - run mysqlbug script and get configure options from it. This is so easy.

After build is completed I simply take mysqld from sql directory and try it out as this is the only piece which I'm interested in. Quick to try, quick to rollback. You may run make install though if you need to but better to be ready to reinstall rpm after it

Back at our users conference in April we announced our pluggable storage engine program encouraging developers to extend MySQL with new innovative engines.  Not only have we expanded our internal development with engines like Falcon, Cluster and others, but we're seeing significant new developments from the MySQL ecosystem.  The pluggable storage engine architecture enables us to work with partners and with the community to reach a much broader range of needs with MySQL than we could on our own. 

There are two new storage engines coming out of stealth mode.  Both help strengthen MySQL in the rapidly growing Data Warehousing market, coming at …