This Monday, I started my new job at a web & software developing
company.
Most of the time, the first week on a new job is very tough -
everything is unfamilar, you don't know everybody and everything
seems strange. I know that from the time when I started another
job in 1996 in a Controlling departement (something very
different, business stuff). There was a lot of frustration in
those days, but not this time. I could describe my feelings best
to simply call it "excited".
However, it's still tough, but not because of the job itself, but
for the fact that the company resides about 60 kilometers from my
hometown (that are 120 km/day, 600 km/week). Where I live,
weather is often very bad in winter, roads are slippery, much
wind, much snow and most of the time I have to drive in the dark
(just the last few minutes before I arrive in the morning it's
lightening up). It's sometimes quite dangerous and requires
careful …
I've just got an email that I was accepted as a presenter for the MySQL Users Conference
2006. My 45 minute session is devoted to "Dynamic SQL in
Stored Procedures", which I honestly know little about, except
that I implemented the feature.
I'm glad I'm coming again this year, although I'm a bit nervous
as the talk is dedicated to DBAs, and my DBA experience is quite
modest. The idea of the session is to show how to move DBA's
existing scripts into a database and use DSQL for some routine
administration tasks, such as optimizing tables, truncating logs,
etc. Dynamic SQL is the key component here because it allows DBAs
to first query their database metadata, and then construct
administrative commands in accordance with it. That can't be done
with basic stored procedures functionality.
5.1 …
Builder.au has selected MySQL 5.0 as the editor's choice in their recent road test of databases comparing MySQL, SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle. Hat's off to the MySQL development team for making this happen. We're very proud of all of the new capabilities in MySQL 5.0 and it's nice to see the hard work recognized, especially when compared to some pretty stiff competition. Here are a few select quotes:
- "Release 5.0 of MySQL is really taking it to the Oracle and DB2 with advanced features such as cluster support and fault tolerance and in most other departments the features run head to head with the competition. Non-SQL junkies can take heart with the GUIs dramatically reducing the reliance on the CLI, bringing administration and configuration within the realms of the novice. MySQL V5.0 is a compelling product and it is hard to argue against its nomination for the …
Yay! Can't wait for March 2006 to come :). There is a little problem though, the evergrowing list of bugs :( We made the numbers for our team go under 100 last month only to see it grow back to 120 while me and Dmitri were on vacation :(
Yes we're still swimming in the nearly 250 submissions for the
MySQL Users Conference.
You will have seen some people scribble about already being
accepted, and of course the conference site is now live for registration
with all 10 tutorials listed and a number of speakers.
If you made a submission, and haven't heard anything yet, please
don't dispair. No news is... no news!
We will get back to you! And many of you will find an "accepted"
note in your mailbox. But even if you get a "declined", know that
your submission was probably still really good...
In such cases, it could become an article for the MySQL Developer Zone
or another online or paper magazine, a whitepaper or case study,
or perhaps be used at another conference in the coming
year.
Really, we don't want all those excellent proposals go to …
Yes we're still swimming in the nearly 250 submissions for the
MySQL Users Conference.
You will have seen some people scribble about already being
accepted, and of course the conference site is now live for registration
with all 10 tutorials listed and a number of speakers.
If you made a submission, and haven't heard anything yet, please
don't dispair. No news is... no news!
We will get back to you! And many of you will find an "accepted"
note in your mailbox. But even if you get a "declined", know that
your submission was probably still really good...
In such cases, it could become an article for the MySQL Developer Zone
or another online or paper magazine, a whitepaper or case study,
or perhaps be used at another conference in the coming
year.
Really, we don't want all those excellent proposals go to …
A deep dive into the MySQL select and sort status variables
A deep dive into the MySQL select and sort status variables
It's me -- I start working for the APAC support team in a couple of weeks! I'll have to get that employee badge added on Planet MySQL.
I got it working...
Eclipse
About two monts or so ago, my attention was caught by that
remarkable open source product, Eclipse. (Maybe a lot of people are saying
"..duh!.." out loud right now, but hey, I can't hear you)
I wrote the MySQL connector/J example accompanying the
article in the Call Level Interface section of Andrew
Gilfrin's site www.mysqldevelopment.com, using eclipse, very much
to my …