By nat
At OSCON in August, I interviewed Jonathan Schwartz. Here's a transcription of that interview, the audio of which is available on IT Conversations. Jonathan commented on it in his blog. Don't forget that OSCON 2006 will be July 24-28 2006.
Some highlights from the interview:
The first meeting of the Boston MySQL meetup group is scheduled for November 14th. The MySQL folks have put us in touch with the folks at Optaros who are willing to let the group meet in their office. Looking forward to meeting some other MySQL users in the area. Directions are on the Optaros site. Meetup starts at 7pm.
Thanks to Sheeri for stepping up as the meetup coordinator and getting this going.
Dimitri has an interesting post entitled "And Free Oracle for All" over on his blog about Oracle 10g XE:
At quick glance all features of 10g release 2 supported in XE,
including Oracle Text for full text indexing. Maximum DB size is
limited by 4Gb and XE will use only one CPU. I guess it‘s fair
limitations for entry level, pilot and even for many medium-sized
applications.
Nice move, Oracle. Why would I want to use MySql now? ;-)
My easiest response is that it‘s only free to a point, and then guess what:
Dimitri has an interesting post entitled "And Free Oracle for All" over on his blog about Oracle 10g XE:
At quick glance all features of 10g release 2 supported in XE, including Oracle Text for full text indexing. Maximum DB size is limited by 4Gb and XE will use only one CPU. I guess it's fair limitations for entry level, pilot and even for many medium-sized applications.
Nice move, Oracle. Why would I want to use MySql now? ;-)
My easiest response is that it's only free to a point, and then guess what:
* Need support beyond what you can get in an online forum? Not so free anymore. You either need to already have an Oracle support contract to lookup items in Metalink (but can't file TARs on the XE install), _or_ move to something much more expensive in Oracle's product lineup to get full support. ( …
[Read more]Dimitri has an interesting post entitled "And Free Oracle for All" over on his blog about Oracle 10g XE:
At quick glance all features of 10g release 2 supported in XE,
including Oracle Text for full text indexing. Maximum DB size is
limited by 4Gb and XE will use only one CPU. I guess it‘s fair
limitations for entry level, pilot and even for many medium-sized
applications.
Nice move, Oracle. Why would I want to use MySql now? ;-)
My easiest response is that it‘s only free to a point, and then guess what:
One of the great things about MySQL is its support from web
hosting companies, many people use MySQL as a backend database
for their websites, there are literally hundreds of web hosting
companies offering MySQL and PHP and there are dozens of
PHP/MySQL books on the market.
I've written a fair amount about the new features of MySQL 5.0
and in particular Stored Procedures and Views. But there's
nothing worse than people telling you to do one thing and doing
another themselves. My site www.mysqldevelopment.com runs on PHP
4 and MySQL 4.0, simply because that's what my hosting company
offers, they are cheap and offer a great service. I recently
asked them what their plans were for upgrading accounts to MySQL
5.0, given that they are still on 4.0 I didn't hold out much
hope. I was right they don't have any plans to upgrade in the
short or medium term and given they didn't even know MySQL 5.0
was about to be released I wouldn't expect much …
Hi all,
The first Meetup of the Boston MySQL group will be Monday, November 14th, at 7 pm, near North Station. For more details, see http://mysql.meetup.com/137/events/. Please sign up for the Meetup group, so you can be informed of future events.
The last week big news hung in air: the long awaited MySQL 5 came
as a GA (Generally Available) version out. After a week beta
phase (thanks to all testers) we now can announce the first
"final" version of XAMPP containing the new MySQL to the public:
XAMPP for Linux 1.5!
Also new in this version of XAMPP: upgraded version of Apache
(2.0.55), PHP (4.4.1), phpMyAdmin (2.6.4-pl3) and OpenSSL
(0.9.8a).
Appropriate versions for Windows and Mac OS X follow in the next
days.
Goto download!
The last week big news hung in air: the long awaited MySQL 5 came
as a GA (Generally Available) version out. After a week beta
phase (thanks to all testers) we now can announce the first
"final" version of XAMPP containing the new MySQL to the public:
XAMPP for Linux 1.5!
Also new in this version of XAMPP: upgraded version of Apache
(2.0.55), PHP (4.4.1), phpMyAdmin (2.6.4-pl3) and OpenSSL
(0.9.8a).
Appropriate versions for Windows and Mac OS X follow in the next
days.
Goto download!
Yesterday evening was the monthly meeting of our local MySQL Users
Group in Brisbane. What do we get up to at these
meetings?