MySQL 5.1.47
In addition to the security update, MySQL 5.1.47 is also very important for an additional reason. The InnoDB plugin that ships with this version has been updated to 1.0.8, which is …
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May
21
2010
May
12
2010
A few years ago, during the MySQL Conference opening keynote, two
world maps of MySQL downloads were displayed. With the lights
down, they made an impression.
Oddly enough, to the best of my knowledge, the downloads map has
not been drawn again since then. I asked my friend and colleague
Markus Popp, and he provided the data from the downloads logs,
leaving the implementation to me.
A first attempt with Google Maps API produced a chart that is
nice to see for a single country or town, but hardly pleasant for
the entire world.
Then, I abandoned the easy path, and looked at CPAN for inspiration,
and immediately found something that could solve my problem.
Using …
May
11
2010
An unusual
href="http://www.meetup.com/Distributed-Work/calendar/13300733/">Distributed
Distributed Work Meetup was held last night in four
different
cities simultaneously, arranged through many hours of hard work
by
href="http://www.meetup.com/Distributed-Work/members/9584137/">Lukas
Biewald and his colleagues at distributed work provider
href="http://crowdflower.com/">CrowdFlower.
With all the sharing of experiences and the on-the-spot
analyses
taking place, I didn't find an occasion to ask my most
pressing
question, so I'll put it here and ask my readers for comments:
How can you set up crowdsourcing where most people work for free
but
some are paid, and present it to participants in a way that makes
it
seem fair?
This situation arises all the time, with paid participants such
as
application developers and community …
May
11
2010
The Oracle Development Tools Users Group (ODTUG) is holding its annual conference in Washington, DC, from June 27th to July 1st. The great news this year is that, at popular demand, there will be a MySQL track, organized and manned by the MySQL community.
The even greater news is that, in addition to the general schedule, there are SUNDOWN SESSIONS
Monday, June 28, 5:45 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. (reception immediately following)
Join us on Monday, June 28 for a lively open discussion with Oracle MySQL ACE Directors. In addition to a specific session on MySQL, other Sundown Sessions will address: Middle Tier and Client-Side Development, Database …
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May
07
2010
It’s Friday already, and we know what that means! Log Buffer, the industry’s weekly review of database blogs is here again for your reading pleasure in the 188th issue.
Starting off this week’s issue is a request from Mark Grennan a DBA who would like to let the community know about his blog MySQL Fan Boy, where he wrote an interesting post on including a script to replace MySQL table files on a live system, making it faster and limiting locking on large table loads. Also a post this week on whether MariaDB is a drop in …
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May
07
2010
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The Oracle Development Tools Users Group (ODTUG) is holding its annual conference in Washington, DC, from June 27th to July 1st. The great news this year is that, at popular demand, there will be a MySQL track, organized and manned by the MySQL community. |
The ODTUG is an independent group of very skilled Oracle users, fond of high level training, specifically in matters of development tools. This year, after the Sun acquisition was finalized, the ODTUG board of directors asked the MySQL community to provide some contents for their conference, …
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May
06
2010
At the recent O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2010, the nice
folk at O’Reilly Media got to speak
to Kurt von Finck, Chief Community and Communications Officer
for Monty Program Ab, about how we handle releases, why we are a
superset of MySQL and more. Watch the 7 minute video, and
do give us some feedback here in the comments.
May
06
2010
After Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle, there has been a large amount of discussions in the business and developer community on the future of MySQL community involved in its development.
A Community Fork?
Interestingly, MySQL community has been able to create a new Database by a fork from the public branch and has revived the project as MariaDB.
On it’s website, AskMonty.org [founded by Michael “Monty” Widenius, the founder and creator of MySQL] states that its aim is,
To provide a community developed, stable, and always Free branch of MySQL that is, on the user level, compatible with the main version. We strive for total interoperability with both our own, and our upstream, communities.
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May
04
2010
| After the MySQL Conference, while most of my European colleagues were busy with volcanic disruptions and seeking alternative routes to the Old Continent, I headed to Las Vegas, to attend Collaborate10 a conference different from the ones I have been used so far. |
Collaborate10 is the conference of the Oracle Users Groups. I had been asked to participate with a few talks on MySQL, and I was curious of meeting this for me new organization. I prepared three talks, one introduction to MySQL and two advanced ones, and thus equipped I ventured …
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May
03
2010
| After the MySQL Conference, while most of my European colleagues were busy with volcanic disruptions and seeking alternative routes to the Old Continent, I headed to Las Vegas, to attend Collaborate10 a conference different from the ones I have been used so far. |
Collaborate10 is the conference of the Oracle Users Groups. I had been asked to participate with a few talks on MySQL, and I was curious of meeting this for me new organization. I prepared three talks, one introduction to MySQL and two advanced ones, and thus equipped I ventured …
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