Since DTrace was released for Solaris I am missing it on Linux systems… It can’t be included in Linux by the same reason why ZFS can’t be – it’s licensing issue. Both ZFS and DTrace are under CDDL, which is incompatible with GPL. So you can see DTrace and ZFS on Solaris, FreeBSD, MacOS, but [...]
xtrabackup-0.3, binaries and stream backup
March 13, 2009 By 11 Comments
We are coming with next version of xtrabackup – online backup solution for MySQL 5.0 / 5.1 and InnoDB standard version, plugin modification and XtraDB. We still consider it as alpha version, though it shows perfect stable results in our tests. Let me address two often asked question about xtrabackup: 1) Does it work only [...]
10 things you need to know about backup solutions for MySQL
March 3, 2009 By 23 Comments
Are you using someone else’s backup solution for your MySQL data? Do you care a lot about your data? Are you sure you’re getting a reliable, recoverable backup that’ll work for your business and your application, and won’t impact your critical processes while it runs? Here are ten questions you need to be able to [...]
7 Reasons why MySQL Quality will never be the same
December 10, 2008 By 15 Comments
I had a call with Monty the other day and I told him why I think MySQL Server Quality will never be the same again. I’ve been thinking a bit more about it and here is the extended list. In particular I think MySQL Server will never be able to reach its original quality guidelines [...]
Should we proclaim MySQL Community Edition Dead ?
July 1, 2008 By 34 Comments
We were chatting with Jeremy Cole today and he brought to my attention last version of MySQL Community Eddition (5.0.51) was released in November 2007 – over 7 months ago. MySQL 5.0.51a and MySQL 5.0.51b security fixes were released but these can’t be considered proper releases. If we look at the old Kaj’s Announcement we [...]
CentOS Comes with free build of MySQL Enterprise ?
January 4, 2008 By 10 Comments
As I already wrote you can well go to Linux distribution vendors if you’re looking for recent MySQL version in a hassle free binary form. (On the time of this writing you could only get binaries for MySQL Community 5.0.45 from MySQL Download Pages which was released in July and so about half a year [...]
MySQL Binaries availability
January 19, 2007 By 9 Comments
It looks like it looks like there are going a lot of discussions about future of MySQL Community Binaries, see for example this post and Kaj’s clarifications. Obviously now it grew to a lot of speculations and many comments are far from real story. It is also really interesting to watch MySQL try to balance [...]
Where to get recent MySQL version ?
December 29, 2006 By 86 Comments
As you might noticed there are no recent MySQL Community versions available for download from MySQL Download Area This applies both to binaries (which is expected with new polices) but also to the source files which were promised to be available. So what is if you would like to use recent MySQL code while staying [...]
