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Yet again I have been on the MySQL forums and yet again it's given me something to write about. The question was pretty standard simply asking how you comment out code or add comments to MySQL stored routines. However the wording of the question got me thinking. In the past when I have been writing complex stored procedures in Oracle it can be difficult to see where an error is coming from, not necessarily which line is raising the error but which section of code cause the problem. One of the methods I have used in the past is to use the /* */ multi line comment syntax to exclude blocks of code on mass to rule them out quickly, this has proved a good way to narrow down where the root of an error comes from.

But as you may know MySQL simply removes any comments from the code if it's entered via the command line, it makes no distinction between comments you are adding and code which has been commented out. This isn't a problem when you …

In my long-running obsessive quest for the ultimate pocket PC, I was able to check out the OQO.  Peter Harvey, hot shot MySQL developer focused on ODBC, has one of these and he was gracious enough to give me some time on this thing.  (Frankly, he could have charged me $10 an hour.)  The OQO (pronounced just how it looks "oh-quo") was designed by some gurus out of Apple who developed the PowerBook laptops and have now focused their efforts on a super-portable Windows device that weighs less than a pound and fits in an inside jacket pocket. 

The latest version is the OQO+, which you can think of as OQO 1.1.  It's a minor update to the hardware with more memory …

The MySQL developers are meeting in Sorrento Italy this week to hammer out the final designs of what all will end up in MySQL-5.2 and beyond and trade best practices, and best of all take care of all that discussion and arguing that the high-bandwidth of being in close physical proximity gives you.

The weather‘s cool, but luckily the rain has held off. The scenery around here is just amazing, and getting in short walks each day into town (our hotel is up in foothills) has been pleasant exercise.

You can check out some of the photos of what‘s going on at Flickr (tagged "MySQL" and "Sorrento"), including my photo set.

The MySQL developers are meeting in Sorrento Italy this week to hammer out the final designs of what all will end up in MySQL-5.2 and beyond and trade best practices, and best of all take care of all that discussion and arguing that the high-bandwidth of being in close physical proximity gives you.

The weather's cool, but luckily the rain has held off. The scenery around here is just amazing, and getting in short walks each day into town (our hotel is up in foothills) has been pleasant exercise.

You can check out some of the photos of what's going on at Flickr (tagged "MySQL" and "Sorrento"), including my photo set.

The MySQL developers are meeting in Sorrento Italy this week to hammer out the final designs of what all will end up in MySQL-5.2 and beyond and trade best practices, and best of all take care of all that discussion and arguing that the high-bandwidth of being in close physical proximity gives you.

The weather‘s cool, but luckily the rain has held off. The scenery around here is just amazing, and getting in short walks each day into town (our hotel is up in foothills) has been pleasant exercise.

You can check out some of the photos of what‘s going on at Flickr (tagged "MySQL" and "Sorrento"), including my photo set.

Today, there seemed to be several interesting news items, so let me elaborate on a couple of them.

Besides the fact that the Mandrake founder Gael Duval isn’t part of Mandriva anymore, the part that interested me was the fact that he was running Mandriva’s Community Department. Their goal was “to improve Mandriva’s image in the open source arena.” Swap Mandriva, with MySQL, and thats me. From engineering grit right up to attending conferences, thats what Community does. Its funny thats what Mandriva chose to close first, seeing their dismal quarter results - basically without an OSS community, you’re nowhere in the OSS world.

I’m a regular lurker on #conary, and reading rPath Creates Malleable, Serviceable Linux Distribution made me …

I'm in a little debate with our sales people. We have one of the new MySQL 5.0 for Developers courses scheduled for June in Melbourne. Yes, the course is available in Europe and the US also!

It appears that in some areas there's more interest in DBA courses than in Developer courses. That's not new, as we used to have a week long Using (Dev) & Managing (DBA) course and people were allowed to sign up for just the DBA part.
Quite a few did, and interestingly enough most of those were completely out of their depth before coffee time on their first day. Of course, there's some stuff that are only relevant for either Developers or DBAs, but many things are important to both - and that's what I'm talking about.

So, based on this and similar experiences, I conclude that there's something wrong with the self-assessment. People reckon …

enough said.

Our community relations manager for the US region, Jay Pipes will be at EclipseCon 2006. See his blog for more information.

The java developers here at MySQL all use Eclipse on a daily basis (including myself), so I‘m excited to see us becoming more involved with the Eclipse community. (hint, watch for some news about MySQL and the Eclipse Foundation to be announced later this week at MySQL's Website.)