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Understanding the various MySQL Products & Variants
The MySQL marketplace today is far more complex then simply choosing between a particular version of MySQL that Sun/MySQL produces. The MySQL server product in general is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 , however you should carefully review the MySQL Legal Policies {#s0rl} as a number of exceptions and different license agreements operate for companion tools such as MySQL Cluster, MySQL client libraries and documentation for example.
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 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 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 moreCome and get a t-shirt at UC2008
Here I am at my desk sporting the PrimeBase supporters t-shirt that will be available at the exhibitors booth at the 2008 MySQL Conference . The front is rather uneventful with the official logo, but the back will be worth the experience.
Read moreA day with Paul McCullagh – Architect of PBXT and BlobStreaming
Continuing on from my lightning visits with Jan Kneschke and Michael Zinner , today I got to spend a day with Paul McCullagh at his home in Hamburg Germany .
Read moreJust what are MySQL 9.x features?
Top marks to Jay Pipes for getting the Forge 2.0 finally out after quite some time, as well as in the midst of the MySQL Conference he is organizing. I am worried however about some of the content, as shown in the screenshot below, the opening page lists Worklog tasks/features for versions 6.
Read moreMy passion for Open Source
I am a very strong proponent of Open Source (excluding my Macbook). Joining MySQL Inc was a wonderful achievement, being part of the team behind the most popular open source database.
Read moreMySQL Conference – PBXT Recognized
As I mentioned in MySQL Conference – Rewarding the Community , Paul McCullagh, the creator of the Community Transactional Storage Engine PBXT won the Community Code Contributor of the Year award.
Read moreUsing PBXT 0.9.5
Paul has released Version 0.95 of his PBXT MySQL Transactional Storage Engine. Here is what I did to get it operational under CentOS 4.3. su - useradd pbxt su - pbxt wget http://www.
Read moreMigrating an MyISAM schema to use Referential Integrity
Here are some steps involved. Using the current MySQL defacto engine InnoDB. Of course, Falcon, PBXT and others will enable alternative engines to be used. Convert Table Storage Engine Types
Read morePBXT – The MySQL Community Transactional Storage Engine
In having a discussion with Paul McCullagh (the creator of PBXT transactional storage engine) and Taneli Otala MySQL AB CTO after the keynote presentation at the MySQL User Conference, Taneli made the following comment (paraphrased and reproduced with permission).
Read moreOpening Conference Keynote
Mike writes a good summary of the MySQL Conference opening keynote State of the Dolphin: Interview with Kaj, Monty and David of MySQL. I’d like to add just two comments.
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