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 [...]
MySQL Is back to Open Source Camp ?
May 13, 2008 By 2 Comments
Looking at Kaj’s Blog Annoucement MySQL has pulled back on the plans to release portions of the servers as close Source only. I am extremely happy to hear these news ! This is good for MySQL as a company, MySQL customers and MySQL users. I’m hoping Community feedback was serious contributer to this decision, though [...]
MySQL Architecture meeting at Google
April 24, 2008 By 2 Comments
Friday after MySQL Users Conference we had a smaller meeting at Google campus to talk about MySQL architecture mainly focusing on storage engine vendors and other extension areas. It was very interesting to see all these storage engine interface extensions which are planned for MySQL 6.0 and beyond – abilities to intercept query execution or [...]
MySQL extensions for hosting
April 24, 2008 By 11 Comments
A few weeks ago I was asked to isolate some functionalities from Mark Callaghan’s MySQL patch bundle. They were extensions adding per-user and per-table accounting to the database, accessible with a new set of commands such as SHOW TABLE_STATISTICS, SHOW INDEX_STATISTICS and SHOW USER_STATISTICS. The first two can interest anyone to periodically check what data [...]
Updated msl (microslow) patch, installation walk-through!
April 20, 2008 By 17 Comments
For a couple of months there have been no updates to our msl patch, however recently I managed some time to change this. The functionality was extended a little bit and what’s even more important the patch is available for all the recent MySQL releases. To remind anyone who has not yet come across this [...]
A note about Pythian
April 17, 2008 By 4 Comments
On Monday I had a chance to have a chat with Paul Vallee from Pythian. This was quite an enlightening talk, and I was very impressed by Paul openness and willing to share with me a lot of internal operations details. I wish there would be more people out where as open and helpful even [...]
VOIP Advice requested
September 10, 2007 By 10 Comments
As one of my last posts about issues with hosting provider got great response and We got a lot of good advice and offers I decided to ask for advice another problem we have as we’re growing our company – organizing good phone communications. Our goals are rather simple though the fact we’re globally distributed [...]
Should MySQL Extend GROUP BY Syntax ?
August 17, 2007 By 11 Comments
Jan has a good article about finding the row matching some value in the group: This is one illustration of group by limitations in SQL language which is not offset by any MySQL specific extensions,yet As you can see if you want to get one row from the group which is sorted some way you [...]
MySQL Community Needs
August 15, 2007 By 3 Comments
Sheeri just posted a great post putting a different view on recent MySQL Community Announcements. This however raises very interesting point what MySQL Community really needs ? I think the problem is there are no single set of needs for Community which can be maintained within single version. I see at least two set of [...]
SpyLOG Was sold the other day, time to look back
August 11, 2007 By 2 Comments
Friends are pointing me to the article saying SpyLOG, the startup which I co-founded back in 1999 was sold the other day to the MasterHost. The amount is not disclosed but it is estimated to be $3M – amount not worth mentioning for USA market but quite decent one for Russian Internet Market. So I [...]
