This blog is about OurDelta, my visit to PGDay (and resulting quest to search for a good nntp reader for OSX) and my long term search for a good set of bluetooth stereo headsets. So lets start with OurDelta. The other day Arjen pokes me about OurDelta. The idea is to offer a place for distribution of all those tasty MySQL patches that float around the web (like from Mark, the Google guys etc.), that simply do not fit in MySQL's research schedule. Obviously this is awesome. There are packages for all sorts of distros (I am sure Windows will come one of these days too), which takes away some of the scaryness for people not comfortable with building things themselves. Moreover you know that there are other people that are using the same binaries and I guess one of the key things that OurDelta could build is a better way to communicate about success and failure when using some of these patches.

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I’m speaking at the MySQL European Customer Conference this week (Thursday, 23rd), on the topic of the best deployment practices for using MySQL on Solaris.

I’ll be covering a number of topics, including:

• Overview of MySQL availability on Solaris
• General tips for MySQL on Solaris
• MySQL on ZFS
• DTrace and the new DTrace Probes
• Using MySQL with containers and zones
• Using Sun Cluster and MySQL Cluster for HA

Some of the material I’ve already covered before (see my presentation at the London Solaris User’s Group, but most of the content will be new and more focused than the top level …

This poll was posted last week on Arjen’s blog and is still open for a few more days to receive your vote. The comments on the original post contain some interesting considerations either way, and many in fact non-technical. Anyway, please add your vote, and optionally your thoughts to the comment thread!

I'm just done listening to a presentation on MySQL from my esteemed MySQL colleague Robin Schumacher. Robin is director of product management at Sun/MySQL. Not being a database expert, I thoroughly enjoyed Robin's whirlwind tour of MySQL. I want to note of a couple of highlights that caught my attention :

• MySQL Community Edition and MySQL Enterprise Edition are feature identical. Wow, that was a suprise to me. I hate it when the Community Edition is distributed as "crippleware".
• Kickfire offers a SQL chip. If I understood correctly, this is a piece of silicon that speeds up your SQL statements. Wow again. I thought the time for custom built silicon for a specific purpose came and went, and the market has long ago decided to pack the intelligence into software, and to use commodity processor units as base. I guess I was wrong here.
• Lastly, …

Brian Aker delivers the keynote speech at OpenSQL Camp: State of the Open Source Databases.

The presentation begins with:
"There is no way I'm going to tell you exactly where the future of databases go. We have way too many egos in the room to ever even begin a discussion..."

and ends with Aker saying,
"What the hell does that mean?"

My summary: open source databases are already ubiquitous, we need to make them better/faster/consume fewer resources.

Brian's summary: What part of my keynote surprised people? How ubiquitous bot nets are, and how they act as a big decentralized data store.

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I'm just done listening to a presentation on MySQL from my esteemed MySQL colleague Robin Schumacher. Robin is director of product management at Sun/MySQL. Not being a database expert, I thoroughly enjoyed Robin's whirlwind tour of MySQL. I want to note of a couple of highlights that caught my attention :

• MySQL Community Edition and MySQL Enterprise Edition are feature identical. Wow, that was a suprise to me. I hate it when the Community Edition is distributed as "crippleware".
• Kickfire offers a SQL chip. If I understood correctly, this is a piece of silicon that speeds up your SQL statements. Wow again. I thought the time for custom built silicon for a specific purpose came and went, and the market has long ago decided to pack the intelligence into software, and to use commodity processor units as base. I guess I was wrong here.
• Lastly, …

I'm just done listening to a presentation on MySQL from my esteemed MySQL colleague Robin Schumacher. Robin is director of product management at Sun/MySQL. Not being a database expert, I thoroughly enjoyed Robin's whirlwind tour of MySQL. I want to note of a couple of highlights that caught my attention :

• MySQL Community Edition and MySQL Enterprise Edition are feature identical. Wow, that was a suprise to me. I hate it when the Community Edition is distributed as "crippleware".
• Kickfire offers a SQL chip. If I understood correctly, this is a piece of silicon that speeds up your SQL statements. Wow again. I thought the time for custom built silicon for a specific purpose came and went, and the market has long ago decided to pack the intelligence into software, and to use commodity processor units as base. I guess I was wrong here.
• Lastly, …

The setup on Launchpad is better organised (Launchpad rocks!), and we already have the first feedback in the form of bugreports - mainly on the packaging and repo information. That’s excellent! Thanks Vladimir Cherednichenko, Steve Walsh, and Peter Lieverdink! Peter actually deserves a special mention as he has put in a lot of work on the debian packaging.

Also, because sometimes instant banter is useful, there’s now a #ourdelta channel on Freenode. Naturally, real discussion should just happen on the ourdelta-developers team and list. It’s really easy to join.

Antony Curtis did just that (join) and already put one of his many patches in: this one fixes issues which occur while a thread …

Can you hear me back there? Anyone have a problem hearing me?

Let's have a look here then... Blog is active, name chosen, sidebar seems to work. Hmmm this Sun blogging system isn't too bad. Looks like I can configure this pretty much how I want it as I get some time.

Well, this is Dups on the Sun/MySQL Web Team and this will be my technical blog of things done, of things to come, of things to do and of things a-happening for anything that isn't well, personal and about photography. If you're interested in that kind of stuff, you might want to mosey on over to http://www.dups.ca/blog and my photo blog at http://www.dups.ca

So what's my expertise?

I always joke that I am the dumbest person in the room. My "expertise" often involves me …

This Thursday, Stewart Smith will give a MySQL University session:

Checking Threading and Locking With Helgrind

Note that this particular session starts 9:00 BST / 10:00 CET /
18:00 Brisbane/Melbourne

Stewart is always enjoyable to listen to, both because he knows his stuff and because he is a really fun guy (heads up for the MySQL Conference 09, the Monty Taylor/Stewart Smith double act at this years conference was one of the most interesting and information sessions I went to).

Please register for this session by filling in your name on the session
Wiki page. Registering is not required but appreciated. That Wiki page
also contains a section to post questions. Please use it!

MySQL University sessions normally start at 13:00 UTC (summer) or 14:00
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