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MySQL Connector/Net 5.0.3 GA has been released. MySQL Connector/Net is an all-managed ADO.Net provider for MySQL. This release is suitable for production use with MySQL versions 4 and higher.

It is now available in source and binary form from the Connector/Net download pages at [dev.mysql.com] 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.)

Changes since 5.0.2

Bugs fixed
Bug #23687 Deleting a connection to a disconnected server causes a failed assertion
Bug #24565 Inferring DbType fails when reusing commands and the first time the value is null
Bug #24661 mysql-connector-net-5.0.2-beta Driver.IsTooOld() Error....
Bug #23905 Stored procedure usages …

IONA Technologies to Announce Fourth Quarter 2006 Earnings Results January 25, 2007, IONA Technologies (Press Release)

Fonality Releases trixbox 2.0: Leading Asterisk-Based Application Platform for Businesses and Integrators, Fonality (Press Release)

Building a Sustainable Open Source Business, Enterprise Open Source Magazine, Amit Pandey (Article)

Top four reasons Windows wins and Linux loses, DesktopLinux.com, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (Article)

MySQL changes license to avoid GPLv3, Computer …

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While taking a quick look at the newly released docs for Falcon, the new storage engine for the MySQL database from MySQL AB (and this is important, as actually InnoDB and the now ditched BDB storage engines for MySQL database are from Oracle) I noticed two "strange" things, at least to someone thinking of large databases running on dedicated hardware.
First of all the data storage, chapter 14.6.5.1. Falcon data file and data structures reads:

A single Falcon database file stores all record data, indexes, database structure and other information. ...

This doesn't sound like a good idea for me as it's better to keep indexes and data separated on different disks and something like Oracle's implementation of tablespaces and the ability to assign indexes and data to different tablespaces hosted on …

For the fourth consecutive year, I'm going to try to record my personal highlights from the previous year.

To get things started, here are a few memories from 2006 off the top of my head:

• I had an amazing surprise 30th birthday party featuring the Sallymacs.
• I played Midnight Madness for the fourth consecutive year.
• I saw FC Barcelona play in New York.
• I played on OmniTI's inaugural football club, OmniTI FC.
• I began using a MacBook Pro (connected to a 30" display) as my primary desktop.
• Essential PHP …

You may or may not have heard of it, SQLite has them, but what is a manifestation type (I'll call them mtypes from now on)?

You can think of an mtype as a untyped variable with a twist. That is you can assign anything you want to it without having to first declare its type OR size. But first lets look at a typed variable example using the C programming language. In C if you want to store a string you will need to declare a fixed char array or create a char pointer to some malloc'd memory cast as char:

// fixed length array
char str[28];

or

// malloc'd fixed length array
char *str;
str = (char)malloc(sizeof(char)*28);

You need to know ahead of time how much space you will need to store a string. If your string was longer than 28 characters you would lose everything after character 28, safely off course by being sure not to write more than 28 bytes ;) …

Matthew Aslett is reporting on MySQL's mostly unnoticed licensing change. As he notes, it's not really a change, so much as putting a stake in the ground to keep MySQL on GPLv2 for the future. As Kaj (VP of Community for MySQL) notes on his blog:

MySQL has today refined its licensing scheme from “GPLv2 or later” to “GPLv2 only“, in order to make it an option, not an obligation for the company to move to GPLv3.

Specifically, this means that copyright notice in the MySQL source code files will change from referring to “either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version” to “version 2” only, in the MySQL 5.0 and MySQL 5.1 code bases.

This is not a once-and-for-all decision, but rather gives MySQL breathing room to wait …

One of the unique elements of MySQL is the ability to use a different storage engine to store your data. You can even mix and match storage engines within the same database.

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This is a weird world. I’ve learnt that the Falcon tree is now public thanks to following Brian’s blog (which thankfully I follow, not just thru Planet MySQL, which is also unreachable), and reading Slashdot’s RSS feed. I was sure there was going to be email, and today, I’ve managed to suck mail from the MySQL’s mail server thru some convoluted means and find the announcement :-)

The Taiwan quake has made Streamyx’s quality of service extremely low. More importantly, it’s not allowing me to write or get mail (something I haven’t done in a while). I sincerely hope that no one’s doing silly BitTorrents or podcasts (I think downloading MP3 files fail immediately, or I just can’t even connect to PodShow and get my Daily Source Code), and that some magic routing starts working.

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Digium Unveils New Software Appliance AsteriskNOW, Digium (Press Release)

MySQL is on track with new storage engine, Computerworld, Jeremy Kirk (Article)

Asterisk an under-appreciated Open Source Success Story, O’Reilly Radar, Tim O’Reilly (Blog)

Mozilla’s 2005 revenue: $52.9 million, News.com Open Source and Standards Blog, Stephen Shankland (Blog)

A hypothetical New …