I got a phone call the other day from someone asking about MaxDB MailDB. He said that he got my phone number from something he read online. I publish my phone number with a lot of my writings, as well as the url to *this page you're reading now*

So some people call me on it sometimes. I might have to put up an asterisk filter some time if I get too many calls.

He called me to tell me that MailDB is the new Jesus Christ and that I should *sell sell sell*!!!! (!!!)

He didn't put it quite that way, but that's the gist of the conversation.

Those of you who are interested in buying, please accept a license to the following code under the GNU GPL:

http://colliertech.org/svn/maildb/

I spoke with my manager about working on this code for MySQL during work hours. That means that any work I do on it belongs …

I've been very excited to test the new EVENT and table logging features, so I downloaded and installed MySQL 5.1 from the development source tree to get the very latest development version - 5.1.7-beta (no alpha anymore!).

The first thing you have to do to test the features is to enable event handling and logging (I also enabled the slow-query-log) in the my.cnf file - like this:

[mysqld]
log
log-slow-queries
event-scheduler=1

First I needed a table - I created quite a simple one:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `test`.`tt`;
CREATE TABLE  `test`.`tt` (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `d` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
  `ts` timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP 
    on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT …

So, my data on $1.3 billion raised in open source venture capital is already old....MySQL just announced that it has raised $18.5 in a Series C round of funding. Investors included Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), which led the round, and corporate investors Intel Capital, Red Hat, SAP, and and Presidio STX.

Keep on rockin' in the free world, Marten! (You and Neil Young.)

Previously:
MySQL 5.0 hits 1 million downloads-Interview with Zack Urlocker
A happy new year for MySQL
…

Last year saw a record number of acquisitions by Oracle Corporation. Of note was in October 2005 InnoBase (Read Press Release) which had a direct relationship with MySQL providing the InnoDB Storage Engine. It’s too early to tell what the impact to MySQL will be if any.

I’ve been in Singapore, and have not read any news in the past few days, but all information I’m receiving from those collegues in the know is that Sleepycat Software (the company behind Berkley DB, and the MySQL BDB Storage Engine) is now firmly in the sites of Oracle Acquisition. The rumors of JBoss is also definitely on the …

I've just downloaded and installed the new Sakila Sample Database.

Then I wanted to create a dump file to transfer it to my MySQL 5.1 installation on the same machine. Here's what I did:

E:\mysql_dump>mysqldump --triggers=false sakila > sakila.sql
Enter password: *******

E:\mysql_dump>mysql -P 3307 sakila < sakila.sql
Enter password: *******
ERROR 1005 (HY000) at line 392: Can't create table 
  'sakila.payment' (errno: 150)

E:\mysql_dump>perror 150
MySQL error code 150: Foreign key constraint is incorrectly formed

Here are my default settings for mysqldump:

all                               TRUE
all-databases                     FALSE
add-drop-database                 FALSE
add-drop-table                    TRUE
add-locks …

Yes, part 0 ;-)
Situation: this stuff appears to be a disaster zone, docs/config wise. Lots of HOWTOs online, but mostly for older versions with different config requirements. And to make things more interesting, most don't mention which versions they refer to! So much fun...

So the question is, who has got this working with say Postfix 2.1, cyrus-imapd 2.2 and cyrus-sasl 2.1 (which has an sasl-sql module which appears to support MySQL). These versions are part of RHEL4 so I presume they fly on the most recent Fedora Core as well.

Anyone? Please drop me a line. Much appreciated.

I've got no real benchmarks to prove this, but a compile on my Intel dual core 20in Mac of MySQL is easily three times faster then my single core 15in laptop. Its apples to oranges, but it certainly is nice to see things compile a bit faster :)

Front Row rocks as well!

It would be nice if I could write plugin to it to display my own stuff. That way I could use the remote to go to a page where it just showed current build status :)

By marc

Aside from everyone giving me hell for using "2.0" in the title, the most frequent response to my Web Development 2.0 post has been how reckless it is to ignore QA as a discipline. The most thoughtful of these responses came from Jonathan Alexander, in his post, Does QA Matter? My last job, like Jonathan's current job, was in a security software company, so I'm very sympathetic to his point of view. (In case it wasn't clear, my post was a catalog of observations, not necessarily recommendations, though I am, as I said, impressed with the results I've seen from these practices.)

Antonio Rodriguez has an interesting and, I think, compelling argument for another way of considering this question. He writes, in his post, …

i talked at scale 4x, and you can download the exciting slides. the picture is of future oracle employee and zend co-founder andi gutmans, and there are a few more pictures from the first day.

(neither andi nor dave from sleepycat admitted to the imminent acquisitions of their companies by oracle.)