mysqlprofile is a Perl script to quickly profile and analyze large sets of queries. Also released with documentation and a guided example of how to use mysqlprofile.

MySQL AB today announced the appointment of industry-veteran Dennis P. Wolf as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Based in the company's Silicon Valley headquarters and reporting to CEO Marten Mickos, Wolf is responsible for MySQL's worldwide finance, internal IT, accounting, HR, legal, and administrative operations.

Scibit today announce the release of our first official tutorial for MyCon published at http://campus.scibit.com

This tutorial is for newbies, and consists of a single flash movie showing how to setup a new connection in MyCon.

For more details, please click here: MyCon101

Being a software developer, I'm naturally bound to start delivering 64 bit binaries of the products I work on.  So, like any good geek, I partition off and install an x64 flavor of Windows and install my preferred set of tools.  I've been very impressed with the Windows Server 2003 SP1 x64 edition but I just can't seem to use it for my day to day work.  Why?  There are just too many tools, add-ins, plug-ins, and other type of -ins that I use on a day to day basis that do not yet work on x64.  TortoiseSVN is one.  MSN Search toolbar is another.  *None* of my printers work.  Bah!

So, I've been hoping that either VMWare or Virtual PC would support 64 bit guest operating systems while running on a 32 bit host OS.  This would allow me to stay in Windows 2003 x32 and still build/test software using x64.  No luck, until yesterday.  Santa stopped by and dropped me an email that VMWare had …

After a long wait by the users of DBDesigner4, the MySQL GUI team has released MySQL Workbench in Alpha form.

MySQL Workbench is a database design tool that lets you drop tables, link them together, then export your design into MySQL. Conversely, you can take an existing schema and have MySQL Workbench reverse-engineer it:

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As an Alpha, there are some features missing (several buttons are disabled), but this is already looking great!

There are no docs yet but the tool should be pretty self-explanatory. There is a discussion forum for MySQL Workbench at http://forums.mysql.com/list.php?113.

Finally, the MySQL Workbench can be downloaded for Windows at …

Bernard Golden, CEO of the open source consultancy firm Navica (not sure what that word means!), writes a regular newsletter on open source as well as a bi-monthly column in CIO magazine.  I don't always agree with everything Bernard writes, but he's got a good perspective.  He's been around the software industry long enough to understand the difference between a trend and a fad and knows how to help companies navigate the waters (could that be it?) of open source.  Definitely worth subscribing to. 

Bernard's also written an excellent book "Succeeding with Open Source" and has made Chapter 1 available …

Mark Leith just noted to me that the Yahoo! Buzz Game is now out of beta and in operation... it's a kind of virtual stockmarket, but based on buzz and virtual credits - you can participate! Their own description: "The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends".

Here's the page for open source databases. I spotted one curious thing there... in the beta, open and closed source databases were in the same graph, and MySQL was quite a bit up compared to Oracle while now the Buzz Game has them on separate graphs. (ohwell - still ahead though if you look at both pages ;-)

Sounds like good fun, anyway. I signed up.

For our Francophonic friends we have set up French language forums at http://mysql.ifrance.com/
(You can also click there from the navigation bar at http://forums.mysql.com/)

Ye that's from a song. Since this morning I am also an Aussie - Australian, that is.
Hooray & G'day!

It mostly means being able to use a different queue when coming back into the country after MySQL travels. Australian customs are fine anyway, always friendly. It just saves the hassle of having to explain that I live here, showing the permanent residency visa, etc.
It also means I can be called up for jury duty (oh glory) and that next time Mr Howard comes up for election, I will have the opportunity (and duty, Aussies have to vote) to help vote him out. Ha!

I am also retaining my Dutch citizenship. Using a Dutch passport is still one of the safest ways to travel the planet. It's quite amazing actually, since the Dutch have this long and mostly nasty colonial + slave-trading history, and up to the present day they stick their nose in everybody's affairs - but somehow, they're still liked.
Perhaps …

Embarcadero's latest version of DBArtisan, 8.1, has native support for MySQL, and is even Certified for MySQL Network.

I reckon this is cool news for the many existing users of DBArtisan, they can now use their familiar tool to also manage their MySQL servers.