MySQL
Standing room only
At Day 1 of the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo today, our high numbers of attendees (reported at 2,000) have resulted in Standing Room only in a lot of talks. This has got to be excellent PR.
Read morePrimeBase XT (PBXT) in the news
In today’s Official MySQL Press Release , PrimeBase XT (PBXT) has been named along with three other storage engine partners in “Sun Celebrates Third-Party MySQL Storage Engines“. This a great achievement for a small company to be recognized in the certified storage engine partner program, in comparison to the other companies that are much larger on the balance sheet.
Read moreOff to a flying start
Marten has opened the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo. This time he started in his opening comments “I have more to say to more people, and given less time to say it”.
Read moreA 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 moreWatching what you say?
Marten has opened the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo this morning in Santa Clara. What was funny in the early slides was the photo showing the burning of the IPO Prospectus.
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 moreTrying out Google App Engine
I got my registration for Google App Engine this morning after being Waitlisted previously . Between flying for about 15 hrs tomorrow and then the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo where I’m presenting and running an Exhibitors booth, fat chance I’ll get to look into this much over the next week.
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.
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