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.

MySQL Users Conference 2006 is now in close proximity and I'm working hard preparing my presentations.
I've got 3 ones this year. All should be very interesting one but challenging to prepare.


First one is MySQL Performance Optimization Tutorial, which I'm doing with Tobias. It is kind of sounding similar to what I've been doing last year
but it is a lot different in the content. Frankly speaking we did not recycle any of the old stuff and just wrote everything from scratch. To learn from
previous year mistakes we now have it more condensed so we can cover everything in short 3 hours, as well as keeping it much more practical. Based on My and Tobiases experience of performance optimization of real application we kind of provide how to or insight on how we work, what exactly do we do, why and how we do it. For particular application there are of course much more specific tricks which can be played but at …

I am writing an article about some advanced replication features (coming soon), and I wanted to measure the speed of each specific architecture I am working with.
There seem to be no builtin MySQL solution for this particular problem, and thus I am using a hand made metrics tool, inspired by something that Jeremy Zawodny suggested in his High Performance MySQL a few years ago (see the relevant chapter on replication with code).
The naive method would be to set a timestamp in a master table, and to measure the same record when it shows up in the slave. Unfortunately, (but correctly, I have to say!) this does not work, because the binary log includes information on the current timestamp, so that master and slave in the end …

Zack Urlocker has posted a great parody pic on his blog. Go and see The Full Monty.

I agree with Markus that closing of Andrew's MySQLDevelopment.com is a really sad news. I hope a way can be found to keep the site alive. I think the best idea would be to make a Wiki like M pointed out.
Frank

The bad side effect of working too late on projects is that you end up dreaming about them.

Well, yesterday night when I went to sleep I dreamt that there was a cool favorites badge of the MySQL community posted on Planet MySQL where all the visitors could see favorites posted to the community in real time. The favorites badge would look something like this:



and / or


The benefit of having a badge like this would be that all the passionate MySQL users would build a joint favorites repository that could be tagged and expanded by anyone. It would be really cool to see the latest trends and patterns of such an initiative. One thing is for sure that finding and organizing new resources as they relate to MySQL would be a breeze.

So I woke up today and just couldn't stop myself from building an interface that does …

As reported on www.valleyofthegeeks.com by Nate Orenstam

Sources inside Microsoft have reported the company will be expanding their commitment to open source by joining the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) next week at LinuxWorld in Boston. 

This appears to be part of a new strategy led by Steve ?No Socks? Sinofsky, who has recently been appointed as Senior Vice President of all things Windows, taking over from long time exec Jim Alchin who was planning on retiring when Windows Vista shipped.  Or perhaps even sooner, based on the fact that his desk is now in the sub-basement of Building 10 next to the vending machines.  ?Jim has been a team player,? Sinofsky said …

Admittedly, Monty doesn't really smoke.  But I thought this was a good picture nonetheless.  I wonder if readers can identify the other MySQLers who, ah, bared their souls for this. 

The organizers of the PHP Québec Conference were gracious enough to give me an unedited copy of my Copyright, Contracts and Licensing for PHP Developers session.

I cleaned the audio up last night, stripping out some of the more odious filler words (I seem to say “Umm” rather often), shortening pauses as I switched slides, removing redundant asides (like asking if there are any questions, when no questions then follow) and excising the introduction and applause.

After a good deal of consideration, I did chose to leave the errors and other flaws in the content presented. These flaws were presented to the audience and they should stay in the recording.

Of course, I don’t want people to be mislead by any of the flaws; to prevent this, I am transcribing the entire talk, …

This is just a short first blog entry.

I just installed WordPress, so now I’m a happy user of three different software packages that use MySQL — WordPress to handle the blog, Coppermine to handle my picture gallery and Simple Machines Forum to handle a private forum used among my friends.

I work with replication and clustering technology at MySQL, so my intension is to blog about this technology. More about this later…