I was just taking a quick glance at AMIS technology blog. This blog aggregate contains quite a few high quality Oracle related entries, as well as some entries relating to eclipse and some other open source developments.

There's an entry by Aino Andriessen referring to a an entry to Eddie Awad's blog. Eddie's been searching the web for SQL pretty printers/formatters, and he has come up with a few interesting ones.

Now, I've been needing such a utility ever since I'm using MySQL 5.0 views. Suppose you've made a complex view using a CREATE VIEW statement, and you …

Sometimes I don't know whether to consider Laura Merling, Executive Director of SDForum, a friend or a foe. She and the SDForum team (in alliance with Andrew Aitken and the Olliance team) are putting on what looks to be an excellent open source event in January. Confound her for staging a quality event right before OSBC! :-)

SDForum's Open Source Think Tank

Seriously, I like the idea, and it's something to which my recent blog entry speaks: we need more intelligent discourse between members of the open source business community. SDForum's event is designed to be just that: a think tank for leading open source executives.

I've been fortunate to be friends with the executive teams at MySQL, SugarCRM, JasperSoft, and others. Talking …

Sometimes I don't know whether to consider Laura Merling, Executive Director of SDForum, a friend or a foe. She and the SDForum team (in alliance with Andrew Aitken and the Olliance team) are putting on what looks to be an excellent open source event in January. Confound her for staging a quality event right before OSBC! :-)

SDForum's Open Source Think Tank
Seriously, I like the idea, and it's something to which my recent blog entry speaks: we need more intelligent discourse between members of the open source business community. SDForum's event is designed to be just that: a think tank for leading open source executives.

I've been fortunate to be friends with the executive teams at MySQL, SugarCRM, JasperSoft, and others. …

As I read from Brian Aker, the beta freeze for MySQL 5.1 is right ahead. Time to reflect on the features that I know they will be in 5.1, features that I don't know if they're in 5.1, features that I wished they were in 5.1 and features that will very likely not be in MySQL 5.1. There are still some questions open for me - maybe somebody who knows more can answer some of them ;-).

New features that I know for sure are Partitioning, which allows to spread the logical representation of a table on multiple physical storage locations, based on conditions. Row based Replication means that data can be transfered from the master to the slaves row by row rather than by SQL statements (it will be adjustable, which method to choose). The Task Scheduler will allow (as the name says) to schedule tasks (one-time or recurring) to execute Stored …

My friend Ron from the Brisbane MySQL Meetup is cooking up a new project that uses MySQL's new Sakila sample database. It's a tag-based Java/JSP framework called HTMLtags. If you're into Java, you might want to check this out. If you like it - and especially if you'd like to lend a hand with development - drop Ron a line. I'm sure he'd appreciate it! (I'd volunteer, but what I don't know about Java would fill a library.) BTW, Ron and I, along with Australia's newest MySQL AB employee, are also starting to cook up a new Open-Source-y Something, but it's still a secret for now.

As a service to the busy, here are SuSE 10.0 RPMs of 5.0.19 a/o 2005-12-27 — use the spec-file to roll your own from the sources. This is a QND build, no warranty given, no responsibility taken.

Reading Miguel's latest post reminds me that if we get the chance we really should try to embed Mono in MySQL at the very least as a UDF language, if not as an SP language, this year if we get the chance.

So many things to do...