While the MySQL Server source trees are maintained using the BitKeeper revision control system, several other MySQL projects (Connectors, GUI-Tools and the Manual) use Subversion instead.

To make it easier for external developers in getting familiar with the code base of the respective project, we now installed the FishEye SVN repository browser, which provides a very nice interface to the hosted repositories and boasts an impressive number of additional features like searching, diffing and RSS feeds. …

What is it about the folks on Planet MySQL having twin brothers?

Roland Bouman
Sheeri Kritzer
Jay Pipes
Zach Urlocker

That’s 4 of the top 25 posters to Planet MySQL. Anyone else want to reveal having a twin? Anyone on here have a twin sister? If you’re a twin and aren’t on the Planet, note that here too……

database, mysql, positive technology

My desktop at work is a Windows machine. Why? Because it gives me what I need — shell access to servers so I can do real work on the machines, a text editor, an e-mail client and a web browser. That’s really all I need to do my job. Sure, I could put in for a Macintosh or install a Unix variant. But if it gives me what I want, why would I spend all that work changing things around, just to ultimately get the same requirements — shell, web browser, text editor, e-mail client….????

I love MySQL, it’s a great database. But in order to meet its tenets, it has sacrificed features. When database religious wars …

This article is part of “Looking For Optimal Solution” series, devoted to testing various Ruby On Rails deployment schemes and doing some simple benchmarks on these schemes. General idea of testing is to find subset of most optimal RoR deployment schemes for different situations.

This small article is about Rails+Mongrel setup and its performance. List of other tested deployment schemes, description of testing methodology and, of course, all benchmark results you can find on “Ruby On Rails Benchmark Summary and Findings” page.

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Ilan Rabinovitch let me know that the SCALE team is getting started on version 5x of the SoCal Linux Expo.

In past years, SCALE has been a great community event - the ratio of promoters to real Linux enthusiasts is low and the attendees are friendly. Also, like most other Linux conferences, attendees have a strong interest in many other FLOSS community issues and technologies, like BSD, Firefox, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Free Software licensing and so on. Hopefully I can attend this year (and can wear both my eZ hat and my Mozilla hat for the event).

The event will happen from February 10-11 and will be held at the Westin Los Angeles Airport hotel.

Get more details at: …

From Webworkshops...

Scaling MySQL

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• Indexing
• Joins are bad (normalised data is for sissies)
• Example: searching
• Hardware (memory, CPU, IO, disc cache, RAID, direct attached)
• Replication (simple, master / master, trees)
• Specialist slave
• Partitioning
  

But that doesn't mean I wear a skirt.

Tonight I took a trip to the Meetup Organizer Meeting. The group is for Meetup Organizers to sit and talk about what they are doing to promote their groups.
Since the PR VP from Meetup was attending, and offering free pizza, I thought I would attend.

I went not expecting much. At best I was hoping to run into other people in Seattle who run technology Meetups, and at worst I thought I would be sitting around a table with five other group organizers listening to someone complain about how no one ever attended their meetings. I had already contacted someone at Meetup.com to see if there would be anyone there who worked on the site, and had found out that this would be non-geek sort of event. (The site is powered by the MySQL database server, and I always enjoy hearing how people make use of MySQL).

What I did not expect to find was a room filled with 50 people who were passionate about their groups. The crowd was a …

I get stuck on the dumbest shit ever.

I have master-master MySQL 5.0 servers. I have a nightly snapshot of the "slave" database, and I need to finish hacking in an automagic method of storing binlogs along with the snapshot. I, for the life of me, cannot decide how to do this. I've been inching for hours.

Do I want to start up 10 tiny mysql instances with our entire schema mirrored using the "blackhole" engine? How would I figure out what position in the binlog correlates with the snapshot? (not too hard I guess). How the hell would I keep that all in sync as developers randomly add/remove tables?

From what *angle* do I grab the damn files? How does my normal binlog rotator manage to communicate with the binlog slurper what files it's already slurped? YAML? A special database on each database? A file in the snapshot directory? Why do I care? :P Why have I written so many of these scripts for so many …

Brian Aker starts work on a memcache engine for mysql. so your memcache cache acts just like a table.

the big thing here which I’ve seen asked for a couple of times on the memcached list is the ability to see a list of keys.

mysql > select * from foo1 WHERE k=”mine”;

freaking amazing.. I love these kind of mashups.

and the 2nd important event.

Django is starting a branch to integrate SQLAlchemy

There's a good blog by a former tech analyst, who also happens to be my twin brother, called OnDisruption.  While I don't normally like to promote something as blatantly nepotistic (is that even a word?) as this, his blog doesn't cost anything to read so I don't think there's a conflict of interest here. 

His most recent posting is on the "Eight Traps of Disruption" and does a good job analyzing some of the common mistakes businesses make when they think they are being disruptive.  For those who lived through the dot com era in Silicon Valley, you may recognize a few of the examples.  For others, yes, it sounds crazy, but people really did make these mistakes.  And often to the tune …