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I‘d like to keep the iBiblio repository up to date as we release new versions of MySQL Connector/J, but the documentation at http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-ibiblio-upload.html assumes that either (1) you use Maven to already build your project or (2) you grok Maven enough to create a Maven version of your project to create the .poms and upload the stuff to iBiblio.

Is anyone out there with Maven skills out there that wouldn‘t mind helping us create the skeleton Maven project to pull this off (someone‘s already done it, since there are older versions of Connector/J in the repository), or tell us a way to do the upload without Maven? (We like our Ant build script just fine, thanks!)

I'd like to keep the iBiblio repository up to date as we release new versions of MySQL Connector/J, but the documentation at http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-ibiblio-upload.html assumes that either (1) you use Maven to already build your project or (2) you grok Maven enough to create a Maven version of your project to create the .poms and upload the stuff to iBiblio.

Is anyone out there with Maven skills out there that wouldn't mind helping us create the skeleton Maven project to pull this off (someone's already done it, since there are older versions of Connector/J in the repository), or tell us a way to do the upload without Maven? (We like our Ant build script just fine, thanks!)

I‘d like to keep the iBiblio repository up to date as we release new versions of MySQL Connector/J, but the documentation at http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-ibiblio-upload.html assumes that either (1) you use Maven to already build your project or (2) you grok Maven enough to create a Maven version of your project to create the .poms and upload the stuff to iBiblio.

Is anyone out there with Maven skills out there that wouldn‘t mind helping us create the skeleton Maven project to pull this off (someone‘s already done it, since there are older versions of Connector/J in the repository), or tell us a way to do the upload without Maven? (We like our Ant build script just fine, thanks!)

Another excellent conference of note: the EclipseCon 2006, from March 20th through 23rd, will be held in Santa Clara. Those of you Java-ites out there using MySQL, be sure to check out the speakers and possibly submit a proposal for a presentation. Hopefully, at least one MySQL staff member will be in attendance; I'll let everyone know when I hear who that might be.

BTW, one keynote speaker you shouldn't miss is Joel Spolsky. He's been in the industry for many years (at Microsoft, Juno, and more) and now heads Fog Creek Software. He's also the author of quite a few books, some under Apress, which …

I am sitting here listening to BDale Garbee, CTO for Linux at HP, tell people to not use Debian for binary shipping products.

Its really nice to hear that someone is being honest about this.

Use source, don't expect stable binaries for this platform from anyone.

Hi All;

Another Sakila schema to review, this one hopefully addresses a lot of the feedback received regarding v0.1:

http://www.openwin.org/mike/download/sakila-schema-0.2.sql

Please note that the download link is plaintext, so right-click and Save As if you want a local copy.
Thanks again to all those providing feedback. Hopefully this is the last schema review so I can move on to generating new sample data and from there we can get on with an official release.

Remember there is now a Sample DB forum at http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?121

Changes:

• all tables have a last_update TIMESTAMP with …

This year I plan to create a new version of db4free.net, which should be bigger and better.

One of my ideas is to create a support system where users can (if they want) mark a database as "supportable" and ask for help on query writing. I often have found questions in newsgroup how a query writing problem can be solved, but it's always harder to give help if there is no data that the query is based on. So with db4free.net new, people should be able to upload their data into a supportable database and a group of MySQL experts could help them to solve the problem based on real data.

Another idea is to extend the possibility to specify IP addresses and hosts to allow access to the owner's database(s). At the moment, it's only possible to set one value for the host. In the future version I'd like to give the possibility to specify different hosts or IP addresses, each of …

It's quite a while (exactly, one week - or seven days) ago since I wrote my last article and I was wondering if that was the longest period that I didn't write anything here on my blog. And whooops - this gave me right the idea what I could write about.

I store all my blog articles together with the date in a local MySQL database. Even though the service at blogger.com works fine, it always feels safer if there is a local copy of everything that I write, for the case if ...

So I extracted the ID and the dates, on which I wrote articles into a separate table which looks like this:

mysql> SELECT id, dt
    -> FROM time_periods
    -> LIMIT 10;
+----+------------+
| id | dt         |
+----+------------+
|  1 | 2005-09-26 |
|  2 | 2005-09-27 |
|  3 | 2005-09-27 |
|  4 | 2005-09-27 |
|  5 | 2005-09-30 | …