Folks, I‘m going to be involved in (giving the first, available for questions on the second) webcasts on Java and MySQL related topics, so if you read this blog because you‘re interested in those topics, you should check them out (they‘re free).

The first, For Java Developers Only: Developing and Deploying JDBC-based Applications with MySQL is on March 2nd. I‘ll be covering some common pitfalls, new features available with MySQL-5.0 (including XA and stored procedures), and a look at what‘s coming in JDBC-4.0.

The second on March 9th, Cost-Effective Enterprise Content Management Using Alfresco and MySQL is a webcast from Alfresco‘s founder and CTO, John Newton. Alfreso is an open source, enterprise content management system that …

Folks, I'm going to be involved in (giving the first, available for questions on the second) webcasts on Java and MySQL related topics, so if you read this blog because you're interested in those topics, you should check them out (they're free).

The first, For Java Developers Only: Developing and Deploying JDBC-based Applications with MySQL is on March 2nd. I'll be covering some common pitfalls, new features available with MySQL-5.0 (including XA and stored procedures), and a look at what's coming in JDBC-4.0.

The second on March 9th, Cost-Effective Enterprise Content Management Using Alfresco and MySQL is a webcast from Alfresco's founder and CTO, John Newton. Alfreso is an open source, enterprise content management system that happens to …

Folks, I‘m going to be involved in (giving the first, available for questions on the second) webcasts on Java and MySQL related topics, so if you read this blog because you‘re interested in those topics, you should check them out (they‘re free).

The first, For Java Developers Only: Developing and Deploying JDBC-based Applications with MySQL is on March 2nd. I‘ll be covering some common pitfalls, new features available with MySQL-5.0 (including XA and stored procedures), and a look at what‘s coming in JDBC-4.0.

The second on March 9th, Cost-Effective Enterprise Content Management Using Alfresco and MySQL is a webcast from Alfresco‘s founder and CTO, John Newton. Alfreso is an open source, enterprise content management system that …

I recently registered myself for the MySQL User Conference from 24th to 27th April in Santa Clara, California.

Now I try to make a plan which sessions to attend. That's an extremely tough task! There are so many interesting sessions, held my many people who I'm really excited to meet - so it's really hard to decide which ones to drop.

I really need a few clones of myself!

Maybe it's not a typical article for a MySQL blog, but since VMWare might be an interesting product for people who do testings on different platforms, I feel that it's not completely wrong here.

Today I've installed the new free (like beer) VMWare server for Linux. Installation worked fine, but as I looked into the "About VMWare" dialog, I found a line that the license expires 13th July 2006.

Is there a time limitation in the free VMWare server?

I was browsing through the session grid for the MySQL User Conference when I cam across a session titled My Second Life Runs on MySQL: War Stories from the Metaverse:

Second Life is a 3D online world where the users call the shots; from creating simple objects to writing complex distributed programs, they build and do pretty much whatever they feel like. And what they feel like doing is often something we never predicted.

This talk will cover the evolution of Second Life’s database architecture over the past three years, as they’ve gone from a handful of users to tens of thousands. Wilkes will discuss the biggest hurdles they’ve overcome along the way, and give an overview of where they plan to go over the next few years.

Second Life is an interesting system and reminds me a lot …

hackmysql.com has grown over the last year almost identically in terms of visitors to www.mysqldevelopment.com. When hackmysql.com was launched about a year ago (as codenode.com), it maybe did a few hundred visitors per month. Now hackmysql.com averages 3,000 uniques/month.


I'd guess the trend is local to our sites; since they're practically just a year old it's probably just initial growth. Plus, I don't know about you, but other than our sites I haven't seen any other very-specifically MySQL websites. Are there MySQL-specific sites beyond hackmysql.com and mysqldevelopment.com (and Jeremy's site)?

MaxDB is a nice database but I’m missing some build-in functions, in particular a function to generate random values. All functions available in MaxDB are listed in the MaxDB manual. In the section MaxDB Library - Basic Information - Reference Manual - Functions: Overview you can find a complete list of build-in functions.

One can argue that a function to create random values is not needed inside a database. You do not need it, because you can use your programming language to generate random values. And it’s likely that your programming language comes with a sophisticated random number generator or has access to such one. For most applications it is true, that you can shift the job of generating a random value to the layer of application programming. But what if you want to use a stored …

MaxDB is a nice database but I’m missing some build-in functions, in particular a function to generate random values. All functions available in MaxDB are listed in the MaxDB manual. In the section MaxDB Library - Basic Information - Reference Manual - Functions: Overview you can find a complete list of build-in functions.

One can argue that a function to create random values is not needed inside a database. You do not need it, because you can use your programming language to generate random values. And it’s likely that your programming language comes with a sophisticated random number generator or has access to such one. For most applications it is true, that you can shift the job of generating a random value to the layer of application programming. But what if you want to use a stored …

One slightly older than the other. One credited with inventing the spreadsheet, the other possibly the first geek in space.

These days, Mitch "Lotus 1-2-3" Kapor is very involved in online collaboration of the kind that Wikipedia displays.
Mark Shuttleworth, South African cosmonaut and founder of Thawte, is behind one of the fastest growing Linux distributions, Ubuntu.

Two very interesting individuals... and they'll both be speaking at our conference! See also the announcement on the O'Reilly site.

Mark will be flying in with his own jet, but for us …