Capgemini UK plc has developed a nationwide "Look-to-Book" seat reservation enquiry system for Great Britain based on MySQL Cluster and Dolphin Interconnect technology. Designed to meet challenging performance requirements in throughput and response times, the system can be accessed from sales points, call centers and Internet applications -- and is capable of performing in excess of the 600 transactions per second required.

I had a blast playing with MySQL 5.1.7 and exploring the latest cluster stuff last week. This week I find out that I'm getting a new iPod for it. That is just sheer goodness. Thanks MySQL.

And yes, I do love to rock.

Last week I was contacted by a person looking for a non-MySQL employee who would spend an hour or so talking to a group of employees at a large international company exploring MySQL. The request was to have someone that's been using MySQL "in the trenches" for some time to get on the phone and have a friendly but honest conversation about how MySQL works. I can think of a dozen people who would be excellent, and perhaps more qualified, but I'm going to give it a shot. Jay's in town for LinuxWorld (and conveniently staying at our place) so I might have to pick his brain about any deep MySQL "internals" questions.

I got a bunch of details on the phone today and it looks like the meeting will be a lunchtime (in my time zone) phone call with a handful of long-time Oracle DBAs who manage databases on the order of hundreds. The organization would like to move into using open source tools and thinks …

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I just started QueryBrowser on my SuSE 10.0 PC (the version that's installed by default) and wondered, what version it would be. Looked into Help/About and was extremely surprised to see 1.2.7 as version number.

The current Linux version of QueryBrowser as stated on dev.mysql.com is 1.1.18.

I guess that the version number of QueryBrowser's Help/About dialog is wrong, but does somebody know exactly, what happened here?

Maybe this message looks like a little late for you, but for me it's true. Today I finally got an xDSL internet connection, which starts a whole new epoch for me.

So far, I only had an ISDN connection with a maximum transfer rate of 7 - 8 KB/s. Every 8 hours, the line has been disconnected automatically, so no big downloads were possible - and even smaller downloads made it impossible to surf through the web comfortably. That was extremely limiting and there were many things that I could only dream of.

Now, these times are over! Today I have already downloaded more data than I usually did (or could) in a whole month before - I'm just installing SuSE Linux 10.1 Beta9 in a VMWare server (both just downloaded), and Ubuntu 5.10 is almost finished. Many more things are planned - also to take a close look at MaxDB, as it won't be a problem anymore to quickly download all the things that I need. Downloading new versions of …

We’ve published the first few episodes of the weekly MaxDB series in .pdf form. Please take a look and let us know what you think!

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Hey all -

Finally got my “MySQL In-Depth for DBA’s” presenation ready for the big upcoming User’s Conference. I’m looking forward to going over all the nitty-gritty that DBA’s need to know with respect to being as successful as possible with MySQL in their shop. Because I’m a big believer in designing for performance, I’ll be spending a good chunk of time on how to build the right design for the job. Of course, this goes beyond just physical database design, and runs down the path of picking the right security model, the right High-Availability implementation, and much more. We’ll also be spending time on how to focus on the right things when it comes to monitoring and tuning performance. And I’ll be sharing a sneak peek into upcoming MySQL features that every DBA will want to know about.

So if you’re a DBA, or a developer who’s been forced to tackle both your development and the DBA’s job, make sure you …

No, we didn’t forget about Make MySQL 5.1 Rock contest. We were just migrating our bugs database, and going through a little teething problems everytime a Monday hit! (yes, I’ve not been taking them for myself in the last two weeks!) The good news is that, you get an additional fortnight to win yourself an iPod Nano.

This week’s winner is none other than Mike Kruckenberg. He’s submitted a bunch of bug reports, in relation to MySQL Cluster (another hot topic these days), and one that caught my eye was a critical server crash (mysql#18603). He also blogs about his day spent with MySQL 5.1, which is a fun read.

If …

ok.. now this is getting stranger.

I have 2 windows open, in one I get

$ mysqlslap --use-threads -psunfire -c 90 -i 500
Benchmark
        Average number of seconds to run all queries: 2.180 seconds
        Minimum number of seconds to run all queries: 0.779 seconds
        Maximum number of seconds to run all queries: 4.497 seconds
        Number of clients running queries: 90
        Average number of queries per client: 0

and in the other i get

$ mysqlslap --use-threads -psunfire -c 90 -i 500
Benchmark
        Average number of seconds to run all queries: 0.012 seconds
        Minimum number of seconds to run all queries: 0.002 seconds
        Maximum number of seconds to run all queries: 0.015 seconds
        Number of clients running queries: 90
        Average number of queries per client: 0

same machine, same user-id, same binary. the only difference is that mysql started in the ‘fast’ window.