Databases
A few words from Jonathan Schwartz
Following Marten Mickos , the second opening keynote at the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo was by Jonathan Schwartz CEO and President of Sun Microsystems. Blog His opening joke was about dinner with Marten, to which Marten said “You not going to get a keynote, unless you buy the company.
Read moreMySQL Awards at the MySQL Conference & Expo
Announced this morning is this year’s MySQL award winners. 2008 MySQL Application of the Year FaceBook – Social Network Virgin Mobile France – Mobile Operator eBay – ECommerce Site 2008 MySQL Partner of the Year
Read morePrimeBase Technologies a MySQL Platinum Level Partner
As per the Platinum Partners List PrimeBase Technologies has made a key achievement. I think this is a great list to make for the company. There are only 18 Platinum partners, and PrimeBase Technologies are the third Storage Engine provider and the second first open source storage engine company.
Read moreWhat is your max_connections?
Kevin Murphy just posted Tip of the Day — max_connections and I thought it might be nice to know what people actually set this to so I’ve created a Survey “What’s your max_connections ” (totally anonymous).
Read moreMySQL Community Photo Day Prizes
I forgot to mention in Support the MySQL Community Photo Day that PrimeBase Technologies is providing 3 prizes for the best photos uploaded. First Prize <td> $150 Amazon Gift Voucher </td> Second Prize <td> $100 Amazon Gift Voucher </td> Third Prize <td> $50 Amazon Gift Voucher </td> So, take your photo with other community supporters — they’ll also be wearing their open source t-shirts.
Read moreWhere’s the News?
It’s been six weeks since the completion of the acquisition of MySQL by Sun Microsystems . In this time, on the MySQL News and Press Releases there has only been one (1) Press Release here .
Read moreThe pursuit of a synchronous world
Well at least your MySQL database world. As Paul eluded to , PrimeBase Technologies has a project to provide synchronous replication for MySQL in a High Availability environment. It is more then an idea, there is a plan.
Read moreSupport the MySQL Community Photo Day
Updated On good advice from Sheeri I made a few comments clearer. It has been proposed that the integral “MySQL Community Photo Day” be on Thursday April 17 2008, the final day of the MySQL Users Conference.
Read moreReplication++, Replication 2.0, Replication.Next
There has been some discussion recently regarding the death of MySQL Read Replication starting with Brian Aker and then Farhan , Arjen and Paul have all chimed in. Whatever you want to call it, the next generation of replication approach is clearly on the agenda of the industry leaders and pack followers.
Read moreThe MySQL SandBox
This week I’d expected to hear good friend Giuseppe (CCO) Maxia speak about MySQL SandBox at the Hamburg MySQL April Meetup . This is product I’ve thought about using, wanted to use, but just never got to the point to using.
Read moreStorage Engines at the MySQL Conference
I’ll be following closely the progression of Storage Engines available in the MySQL Database server, well soon to be available when 5.1 gets to GA (hopefully by end of Q2 which is what we have been told).
Read moreHamburg MySQL Meetup – Apr 2008
Tonight’s Hamburg MySQL Meetup was a packed room of 60-70 people at Sun in Hamburg. The most I’ve seen @ a MySQL Meetup across three cities, countries, continents and years (my first Oct 5, 2004).
Read moreUnexpected SEO results
I had need to show the official MySQL business shirt to somebody, so I did a Google Search on “mysql conference photos” (without the quotes) as I know I’ve seen photos of staff at the conference online before.
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