C/ODBC comes with some command-line tools such as MYODBCInstaller.exe. MYODBCInstaller can be used to; register/deregister a driver or create/edit/remove a DSN. In other words - MYODBCInstaller can be used to manage ODBC system information.
Driver

An ODBC driver must be registered before being used. On most platforms this means adding entries into some text (odbcinst.ini) file. In the case of MS Windows it also means adding entries into the registery. A driver is deregistered by simply removing the entries. One complicating factor is that a UsageCount is maintained. The UsageCount is incremented each time a driver is registered and decremented each time the driver is deregistered. The idea is that the driver files should only be removed if the UsageCount becomes 0.

MYODBCInstaller handles adding/removing entries and inc/dec UsageCount but does NOT copy/remove files - that must be done by the caller. For …

Yesterday, I was testing various backup and recovery methods supported by ZRM for MySQL before 1.1.1 release. ZRM for MySQL requires binary logging to be enabled on the MySQL server. I ran out of disk space during testing and removed the binary logs. Accidently, I deleted the last binary log used by MySQL server. MySQL server uses the most recent binary log.

I could not start MySQL server again.

# service mysqld start

061031 17:38:48  mysqld started
061031 17:38:48  InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 14 1645228884
/usr/libexec/mysqld: File '/var/lib/mysql/mysql-bin.000017' not found
(Errcode: 2)
061031 17:38:48 [ERROR] Failed to open log (file …

This is a description of a simple backup strategy for MySQL. At the time of this writing, we were using MySQL version 4.1.21 in a master-slave replication configuration, described in a previous article . The replication setup forms a basis for the backup strategy and makes backup very easy while providing 24/7 planned uptime on the master MySQL server.

This is a description of a simple backup strategy for MySQL. At the time of this writing, we were using MySQL version 4.1.21 in a master-slave replication configuration, described in a previous article . The replication setup forms a basis for the backup strategy and makes backup very easy while providing 24/7 planned uptime on the master MySQL server.

For those who may not have believed it, the last two weeks we've seen proof that open source truly is a disruptive technology.  How is it disruptive?  It challenges the incumbents of closed source software, especially traditional enterprise infrastructure vendors.  That doesn't mean that closed source software is going away overnight, but the growth rates are slowing, license revenues are stagnant or declining and, most importantly, new applications are being built on open source. 

So not surprisingly, Oracle and now Microsoft, by their recent actions have proven that open source is disrupting their businesses.  Consider the following:

• Oracle announced they will fork Red Hat Linux, promoting a full stack
• …

Welcome to the 17th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly, human-edited review of news from the database blogosphere. There’s a lot to cover this week and not a moment to waste, so let’s begin. That 800-pound gorilla, Oracle Open World, has trundled back to its jungle home for another year, and a lot of bloggers [...]

Microsoft and Novell have announced a set of deals bunched together to create one of the most significant developments in the Linux versus Microsoft saga: technical collaboration, a so-called ‘intellectual property bridge’ (I-won’t-sue-you, you-won’t-sue me), and a joint support and services deal designed to counter the Oracle-Red Hat announcement of last week.

As this was breaking last night, our Open Source Practice Head Raven Zachary said, “Microsoft’s move to embrace Linux through an alliance with Novell is one of the most significant open source announcements to date. This announcement seems rushed, years in advance of what I expected from Microsoft, and clearly a response to Oracle’s announcement last week.”

First, the technical collaboration addresses three areas of threat by the open source world to Microsoft, to wit, server virtualization, web services management and open document formats. The companies will …

I already knew my way around the open source database scene when I started preliminary research for my diploma thesis last December. However writing this paper has been a great opportunity to dive into this topic really indepth, dispelling some misconceptions of my own along the way. Once I finished my last courses at university in March, I began to focus on this topic. Obviously I was still doing some open source and commercial development on the side during this time. So all in all I probably put in around 6 months of time in this.

On Wednesday I picked up the nicely bound copies of my 173 page diploma thesis. I dropped off at one copy of it at the university yesterday. So today I am releasing the paper to the public. The fancy title is as follows:
Synergies and Opportunities:
Open Source and Commercial Vendors
A study of the …

I’m halfway to restoring all the articles at VBMySQL.com. I’ve been able to clear up some typos and errors along the way while using the experience to come up with ideas for sessions at the next MySQL UC.

I’m thinking of a session to follow up my well-attended session on Managing Hierarchies in MySQL from last year’s conference, adding more breadth and depth to the session by covering multiple approaches to managing hierarchies and extended information on using stored procedures, views and partitioning to manage hierarchies.

What do you think? Did you attend the previous session? Would a three-hour tutorial be useful?

Jimi Hendrix once asked, "Are you experienced?" The new song, however, is "Are you assimilated?"

Assimilated into what? The Borg, of course. :-)

What is The Borg? It's the ever closing world of the large, proprietary ecosystems. Such ecosystems deliver a lot of value - greater integration between components, improved (theoretically) ease of use, etc. Microsoft has been the master of this, and Oracle is mounting the most formidable challenge to Microsoft (perhaps one reason for the Linux announcement, and clearly a reason for its announced …