May 25, 2012

Post: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!

Congratulations to Monty Program and the many community contributors for releasing the GA version of MariaDB 5.3. … these features are also available either in Percona Server or in the upcoming MySQL 5.6 in the same or slightly different… to this list. For example, Percona Server has the same group commit fix, and MySQL 5.6 offers microsecond timestamp support, as…

Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!

… what the core MySQL community focuses on – in fact I would say MariaDB is seriously underrepresented on places like planet mysql. (Ie possibly… only want to patch security issues whereas MySQL also fixes non-security bugs like server crash, wrong result or just performance regressions…

Comment: Percona XtraDB Cluster Events

I tried to install XtraDB-Cluster-server, it depended on xtrabackup and xtrabackup depended on mysql. So I installed MySQL-server-community rpm and xtrabackup, but when I installed XtraDB-Cluster-server, I said it’s conflict with MySQL-server-community. What should I do? Thanks

Comment: Percona Toolkit 2.1 with New Online Schema Change Tool

… for regular community MySQL 5.5.23 or does it only work (or work better) with a Percona type version of MySQL – ie one of Percona’s “improved” versions of MySQL (that is what Percona does, isn… what is happening on the server. Any ideas on what is happening here? It seems as if MySQL 5.5 has been…

Post: MySQL Community Needs

… putting a different view on recent MySQL Community Announcements. This however raises very interesting point what MySQL Community really needs ? I think the problem…to see certain community contributions in server but not at the expense of stability. For this group actually Old Time MySQL would work…

Post: MySQL Community Dinner

MySQL and MySQL Community guys, in particular with Mark Callaghan from Google about his experiences of using MySQL and work he does to scale MySQL… not really remember if this applies to “cheap” hardware or “server grade” hardware class. Sun Executives also of course got fair… is – Sun wants MySQL Community to be happy and if we see something what is done which hurts MySQL community Rich would like to…

Post: Two Types of MySQL Users

… and write them, they may even hack on MySQL. So this fraction of MySQL Community looks a lot larger than it is. Think about this – you might think most relevant players in MySQL community participated in MySQL… Drizzle, MariaDB or Percona Server, they often do not attend MySQL Conference and may not even know Oracle owns MySQL these days. This…

Post: Schedule for MySQL Conference 2012 is Published

… working on MySQL Code. We have many talks which are covering Oracle MySQL, and forks such as MariaDB, Drizzle and Percona Server are… commercial MySQL alternatives such as Clustrix and SchoonerSQL from our sponsors. At the same time this is the conference for MySQL Community. We’re talking about other database systems only as it comes to migration to MySQL and about NoSQL…

Comment: Where to get recent MySQL version ?

…. MySQL 5.0 Community Server sources and binaries are available from our download pages. 2. MySQL Enterprise Server is released more frequently than MySQL Community Server. 3. MySQL Community Server gets all bug fixes from MySQL Enterprise Server. 4. The higher release frequency of MySQL Enterprise Server

Comment: Where to get recent MySQL version ?

….org/kaj/?p=84 “MySQL continues providing Windows binaries for free Contrary to some reports in the community, MySQL will continue providing binaries… current latest binary-and-source MySQL Community Server release is 5.0.27, and I expect MySQL 5.0.35 Community Server to be released as…