mike kruckenberg shared his observations from watching mysql source code commits, and jay pipes commented about this commit from antony curtis which had him excited. now that?s how open source is supposed to work, at least in part.

i replied to a later version of that commit to our internal developer list (and antony), pointing out that with just a little effort the comment would be more useful to people outside of the development team. ?plugin server variables? doesn?t really do it justice, and ?WL 2936? is useful to people who can access our internal task tracking tool, but does no good to people like mike.
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Just a quick note to thank all of you who have already participated in our recent survey. Normally once a year, we conduct a user survey where you tell us a little about how you use MySQL and a lot about what more we can be doing to serve you better. Your input helps us plan our product roadmaps and prioritize the things we need to focus on in the coming year and beyond.

If you haven’t yet filled out our survey, please visit our community page, and then click on the survey link in the upper right hand corner. And of course, we’ll be giving away gifts to those who lend us a helping hand.

Thanks again.

Quick question: If one dumps a table (latin1) and then changes the charset of one of the fields to utf8 and then load the dump back, will the result be different than if one had used alter table to convert a field's charset?

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How to Convert Measurements Easily in Microsoft Excel

We've all been in a situation where we need to convert one measurement to another. An objects mass was measured in ounces and not kilos, or the lumber you ordered was measured in metres instead of feet, or someone is planning a trip to the USA and wants to know the speed limits in mp/h when they're used to km/h. There are a multitude of jobs where this is a daily task, some of them where measurements must be exact. Well, there is an easier way. There is a function in Microsoft Excel called CONVERT that will convert from one measurement system to another and all you have to do is specify the number and the measurement systems!

Steps

1. Start Microsoft Excel
2. The CONVERT function is not installed by default. It is part of the Analysis Add-in tool pack. To …

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A few week ago we switched kruckenberg.com over to a new server. With the move I lost all of my procmail filtering rules which were responsible for automatically moving incoming mail to various folders on the server (mail must be filtered on the server so my Blackberry and webmail will get the same filtering).

Anyhow, one of the things I'd been sticking into a folder and looking at occasionally (meaning once a year to purge) is the messages from MySQL source commits. Anyone can subscribe to the list on the MySQL mailing lists page and get these messages which essentially contain the notes and diffs from when something is checked into version control. Most of these commits are for the database application, but there is also a steady stream of documentation changes coming in. Since I haven't gotten around to redoing the server-based …

Spent a bit of time over the weekend looking at Asterisk Now.
http://asterisknow.org

I downloaded the ISO last week and was finally able to make some time
to take a look at it over the weekend. From the start I found myself
a bit annoyed with the project because of the download website. First
problem was that I had to register to download a binary. Required
"signups" remove my "get it now, try it" nature. I use greylisting
for email so it could be up to half an hour before I get back my
registration to any new site. That is enough time for me to go off
and work on a new project. Required downloads just lead to bogus
signups that just makes Sales job more difficult since they have to
sort through bogus logins to find good leads.

Second annoyance? I couldn't read the forums before I downloaded. …