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Put Me To Work For You

(The Executive Summary: I left my job last week, and I start working at The Pythian Group on Monday. Go to their website if you’d like to work with me, or with people just as knowledgeable as me.)

I get inquiries all the time about consulting. Folks are madly searching for experienced MySQL DBAs. The lure of a new environment is always tempting, however, working for any one environment has its quirks. In October I realized I was coming up on having worked 2 years at my job. That’s not a very long period of time, but it certainly was long enough for me to learn the environment and get stuck in a rut — mostly my rut was doing more systems work than database work.

I looked around for other places of work, and had a wonderful interview at an awesome company to boot. However, they were also a product company, and I’d decided that I wanted to move to a service company. That is, a …

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What?s in a Name? Everything!

Peter makes an interesting post about the MySQL company’s trademarks at http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2007/10/26/mysql-support-or-support-for-mysql-mysql-trademark-policies/

The point is that Peter is not selling “MySQL Support” — he is selling “Support *for* MySQL”. “MySQL Support” is the name of a product that MySQL offers. Even if some other consulting company used the name before the MySQL company ever did, MySQL still has the rights to the name.

I chose to name my podcast “OurSQL: The MySQL Database Podcast for the Community, By the Community.” I chose every word carefully. For instance, I call it “the MySQL Database Podcast” so that anyone looking for a podcast about “database” will find it.

I could have just called it “MySQL Podcast”. But if …

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Vote For Something That Matters To You

Vote for your favorite MySQL Community(TM) logo! Add comments on existing logos! Even mock up

http://mysqlcamp.pbwiki.com/LogoVoting

Seriously, though — think of how a new logo will reflect the Community, and how we all want to be perceived. Also consider what makes a nice favicon.ico …..

So vote on something that really matters to you, and make your voice heard. It does not cost anything and takes just a few seconds.

MySQL Community Edition and Website Changes

I posted earlier about the MySQL announcement (see http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/news/article_1171.html )and how I see it affecting Enterprise level users.

However, as someone who uses it for work other than my day job, some at the hobby level and some above that level, the Community edition is also important to me.

The way I see it, the changes are great for people who use the Community edition.

Wait, there will be 2 codebases, and they have not doubled their staff, so won’t there actually be less development? Are they expecting the community to write all the code for the Community edition?

Kind of. I do know that MySQL has been hiring lots of people, but I’m not an employee, so I have no idea of their growth. There will be 2 codebases, but that works out for the best for everyone. Now, there will be 2 …

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MySQL Enterprise & Website Changes

OK, so I am excited. Yesterday MySQL announced MySQL Enterprise (http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/news/article_1171.html). Now, I had not been so keen on MySQL Network — I had not realized the level of service MySQL will go to. Does Oracle or Microsoft offer schema review as part of a service package? I do not think so.

Basically, MySQL Enterprise is really a full suite of enterprise solutions for companies that need them. Many folks know how hard it can be to convince their boss that a DBA (or team of DBA’s) is needed. Many folks know how hard it is to be a DBA, and many folks know how hard it is to be a developer or sysadmin with DBA duties.

It’s easier to convince a company to spend money on a support contract than it is to spend money on headcount. And with MySQL, companies get so much for their money.

Oh, sure, there …

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