Anders Hejlsberg, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, is interviewed in the Microsoft Channel 9 "Behind the Code" series.  Anders is one of the greatest minds in the programming field and has had a huge influence on programmers for more than 20 years.  Anders developed the first Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Turbo Pascal at Borland, and later developed Delphi, Visual Java, the Windows Foundation Classes, C# and the .Net framework. 

I had the pleasure of working with Anders on various versions of Turbo Pascal and Delphi back at Borland some years back.  One of the best things about Anders was he understood how to meet the needs of a very large audience of customers by applying principals of simplicity and elegance.  He was careful not to add features …

Nokia, the world leader in mobile communications, and MySQL AB today announced an agreement under which Nokia plans to use MySQL Cluster database technology in its next generation telecommunication subscriber register solution. Subscriber registers are essential to maintain real-time information about mobile and converged network users. Nokia is today one of the leading suppliers of Home Location Register (HLRs), providing extremely reliable systems and the highest transaction capacities for the subscriber database needs of telecom networks.

The common mistake people make when selecting ERP/CRM software, and how to avoid it.

Buying a Refrigerator

How do people buy refrigerators?

Chances are, a family sits around the kitchen table and decides what features they'd like. One wants stainless steel exterior, 30.0 cubic feet of capacity, and separate drawers for fruits and vegetables. Another wants a wine rack. Someone else wants an ice maker. An ice cream tray. A water purifier. Thus a requirements list is born.

Then you go shopping. This one has all the features but costs $1,200. That one doesn't have the water purifier or wine rack but is $300 less. Which is better? You think about it.

Is it a popular brand? What do the analysts at Consumer Reports say? How is the warranty? Do my friends use it? Do they like it?

You make a decision.

Enterprise Software is Not a Refrigerator
…

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
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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.