So far the benchmarking script supports Linux, FreeBSD, and OSX. I’m installing virtual machines today to get ready for development on the next OS that the community wants to have supported. Vote today for your choice. Development will begin Friday 2010-09-03.
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We’re proud to announce the next release of MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.27. This is the second maintenance release for 5.2 GA (Generally Available). This maintenance release does not introduce any new features, but focuses on general product improvement and usability. We hope you will make MySQL Workbench your preferred tool for Design, Development, and Administration of your MySQL database applications.
As always, we want to thank everyone for the great feedback we have received. This helps us to continuously improve and extend the functionality and stability of MySQL Workbench – please keep up on approaching us with any ideas to develop our product even further.
MySQL Workbench 5.2 GA
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[Read more]The development cycle is moving right along for the community’s newest MySQL benchmarking script. I’m pleased to announce that we now officially support FreeBSD (version 8.1 tested) so go ahead and download now and test your FreeBSD, Linux, or OSX MySQL server! Click here for the download.
Courtesy of Darren Cassar and some generous coding this weekend, we’re going to be releasing a auto-installer / updater for the application which you can use to automate that part of the process. Stay tuned for information on that release.
Last week I followed an very interesting ORACLE webinar delivered
by Chris Mason : The State of Btrfs File System for Linux
BTRFS was initiated by Chris Mason who used to be responsible for
Reiserfs at Suse and now works for Oracle. The first release
started in 2007. BTRFS has been merged into Linux kernel in 2009.
Now there are developers from REDHAT, INTEL SUSE, IBM, HP ...
storage vendors. The project is very active. Ubuntu is
considering to use it soon as its default filesystem. BTRFS is
licensed under the GPL license. An interesting to read short
summary of the life of BTRFS : A short history
of BTRFS
...
[...]
Quick solution to an issue that the affected Debian Lenny release: the process used to collect the MEMORY_ACTIVE_BYTES variable has been modified to correct a situation where some systems report an array of memory information instead of the expected single integer value. The bug has been fixed in revision 21 and the current download (revision 22) is available for download or svn update. As usual, you can download the MySQL dbbenchmark script here: [downloads].
Thanks goes to Brian Vowell at Evernote.com for bringing this bug to my attention. The original bug report can be found here: [link]
We had a very successful weekend of Planet.mysql users submitting their database statistics so I’ve pushed some code into a new release today so that everyone can benefit from some new features. The biggest change is to the threading logic. Previously the benchmarking script was serializing MySQL operations and only making use of a secondary thread (not the invoking thread) to query the database. Now you have the option of running with “–threads=x” to make use of your multi-core server. A good example of this improvement was on my Macbook Pro; before the threading change it was inserting ~700/sec, after the code change I tried –threads=4 and saw an improvement to ~900/sec. Rather significant.
Download the new script now and see how your server compares to the ones in the …
[Read more]Just a quick note to let everyone know that our new benchmarking script now supports OSX 10.6 on Intel hardware. That means you can run one simple command and get all of the sequential and random INSERT and SELECT performance statistics about your database performance. As usual the script is open source and released under the new BSD license. Give is a try by downloading now! See the download page for more details.
You can download the first release of the benchmarking script here: http://code.google.com/p/dbbenchmark/
Please read the README file or consult the Support page before running the benchmarks.
With OpenSQL Camp and FrOSCon being over for almost a week now, it's time to come up with a short summary. I traveled home on Monday morning and then took Tuesday off, so I had some catching up to do...
As for the past years, FrOSCon rocked again! According to the closing keynote, they had around 1.500 (unique) visitors and I had a great time there. I really enjoyed meeting all the old and new faces of the various Open Source communities. The lineup of speakers was excellent, Jon "maddog" Hall's keynote about "Free and Open Source Software in the Developing World" was quite insightful and inspiring.
Most of the time I was busy with speaking at and …
[Read more]The future of open source licensing. OpenSolaris governing board quits. And more.
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to.”
# Glyn Moody asked which open source software licensing is best for the future?
# The OpenSolaris Governing Board has collectively and expectedly resigned.
# OpenBravo has updated its rapid implementation ERP offering for small and mid-sized businesses, Openbravo QuickStart. …
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