The team just finished our second successful MySQL Con. Many thanks to Marten & Zack and all the folks at O’Reilly that put on such a great conference.

This year definitely had a different feel, and of course that had a lot to do with Sun’s influence. It felt like it was almost a new event, a chapter 2 for MySQL, and its ecosystem of vendors and customers. There were more people - I don’t know exact numbers, but it felt appeared to be twice as packed. The exhibit hall was the same, but we took up a bit more space than last year and certainly there were much fancier booths - ours included! We even gave away multiple prizes this year - our fun 8-ball tshirts, and a couple remote control helicopters. Scott Baird and Mike Hogan were the lucky winners this year.

The one thing that hasn’t changed is our fit with the MySQL customers. This year we met several of our own customers and users face-to-face - including an entire …

“Sun to Begin Close Sourcing MySQL” screamed the headline on Slashdot last night. The headline is not entirely accurate (although slightly more accurate than the bizarre statement that “Sun has had a very poor history of actually open sourcing anything”).

So what is going on at MySQL? To get to the bottom of that you have to weave together a number of posts and comments from a number of sources. First the article behind the Slashdot headline:

“Just announced: MySQL to launch new features only in MySQL Enterprise,” states Jeremy Cole, which is a much more accurate description of the state of affairs. “MySQL …

For the first time, MySQL includes Dtrace probes in the 6.0 release. On platforms that support Dtrace you can still find out a lot about what's happening, both in the Operating System kernel and in user processes, even without probes in the application. But carefully placed Dtrace probes inserted into the application code can give you a lot more information about what's going on, because they can be mapped to the application functionality. So far only a few probes have been included, but expect more to be added soon.

I decided to take the new probes for a spin. Oh, and rather than do it on a Solaris system, I figured I'd give it a shot on my Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, since MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) supports Dtrace.

To begin with I pulled down and built MySQL 6.0.5 from Bit Keeper, thanks to some help from Brian Aker. …

For the first time, MySQL includes Dtrace probes in the 6.0 release. On platforms that support Dtrace you can still find out a lot about what's happening, both in the Operating System kernel and in user processes, even without probes in the application. But carefully placed Dtrace probes inserted into the application code can give you a lot more information about what's going on, because they can be mapped to the application functionality. So far only a few probes have been included, but expect more to be added soon.

I decided to take the new probes for a spin. Oh, and rather than do it on a Solaris system, I figured I'd give it a shot on my Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, since MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) supports Dtrace.

To begin with I pulled down and built MySQL 6.0.5 from Bit Keeper, thanks to some help from Brian Aker. …

For the first time, MySQL includes Dtrace probes in the 6.0 release. On platforms that support Dtrace you can still find out a lot about what's happening, both in the Operating System kernel and in user processes, even without probes in the application. But carefully placed Dtrace probes inserted into the application code can give you a lot more information about what's going on, because they can be mapped to the application functionality. So far only a few probes have been included, but expect more to be added soon.

I decided to take the new probes for a spin. Oh, and rather than do it on a Solaris system, I figured I'd give it a shot on my Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, since MacOS X 10.5 (Leopard) supports Dtrace.

To begin with I pulled down and built MySQL 6.0.5 from Bit Keeper, thanks to some help from Brian Aker. …

Unfortunately I didn't find any available seats to take notes for this but this morning a very interesting keynote took place. Representatives from 7 large companies mentioned in the title gathered on stage and answered various questions by MySQL's Kaj Arno.

These questions included things like "how many MySQL servers do you have", "how many DBAs", etc. It was a lot of fun, hopefully someone (Sheeri) will edit and post the video soon.

Keith has a nice summary of everything that went on together with the numbers here.

Update: Venu has even better notes here.

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connector/odbc 3.51.25 and 5.1.4 were released today. the new 5.1 release has been deemed “generally available,” which is our really ridiculous term for a non-alpha/beta/rc release.

it was the day for the connectors team to do releases — previews of connector/openoffice.org and pdo_mysqlnd made it out before us, and i believe that a connector/net release is in the wings.

There’s quite a bit of buzz on the blogosphere from people I respect a great deal, like Jeremy Cole at Proven Scaling and Vadim at Percona, about MySQL’s new Enterprise backup plans.  

The big deal?  They’re releasing a Community version that doesn’t have all the same features as the Enterprise version of Online Backup, including compression and encryption.  The Community version is open-sourced under GPL, the Enterprise version is not.

Personally, I think this is awesome. Don’t get me wrong – I love open source.  We couldn’t have built our business without it, and we love it when we get a chance to contribute back to the community.

But …

I wish I had better notes, but I was enthralled by Jonathan Schwartz’s (CEO, President, Sun Microsystems) keynote. It was truly, very amazing an influential. He’s a great speaker, and very motivated (and I think he’s motivated a lot of the audience).

What is Sun’s Agenda?
Similar values, cultures, and similar dysfunction’s like any family.

The Texas Advanced Computing Center - 500 teraflop “open” super-comptuing facility.

“Computational science is the third mode of discovery, complementing physical experimentation and theory” — Daniel Atkins III, Director, Office of Cyberinfrastruture, National Science Foundation

The industry has valid, legitimate scientific purpose.

Improving society as a result of that understanding. What does it take to fuel developing economies? Or to make new scientific discoveries?

In Africa, a bank is giving mobile phones, to allow folk to …

In-between Marten’s keynote, Rich Green, EVP Software, Sun Microsystems, comes up on stage, and here’s my live-blog.

He talked about the famous dinner last year, for buying MySQL. Autonomy reigns supreme in MySQL. MySQL continue at their same course and speed. The plan is the plan, until there is a new plan - and there is no new plan.

Sun has a heterogeneous platform. Many partners, including Dell, IBM, Intel, and so on. Lots of open source in terms of software. The cultures, discourse, intellectual arguments, its an excellent mash up, this Sun and MySQL. Don’t Panic! There is no change for what has been an incredibly successful thing.

Sun’s Continued MySQL Commitment:

• profitable business on the principles of FOSS
• GPL - consider GPLv3 as it involves, and we understand the interest and evolution of the community. Its GPLv2 still, naturally
• Tuning for the most popular operating …