Why one may wonder, it’s just Swedish beer (State of Doplhin, MySQL UC 2006). One week ago Jim Starkey sent message http://www.firebirdnews.org/?p=1742 so he will not work for MySQL anymore and starting new project. While that’s fully Jim Starkey’s personal decision, I expected some comments about Falcon future development from MySQL / Sun side. Jim [...]
Conference for MySQL Users
April 23, 2008 By 3 Comments
If you’re following PlanetMySQL you’ve already seen Baron’s post about MySQL Conference which many of us just have returned from. It was great event as well as 5 conferences I’ve been before that, though however it more and more becomes MySQL marketing channel and business event rather than Users Conference as it originated. This Year [...]
MySQL and Sun – Oportunity for smaller companies ?
March 26, 2008 By 10 Comments
Reading Martens interview we see the quite: “As soon as the deal closed we immediately secured a big deal with a major European national police agency,” said Mickos, now SVP database products at Sun. “Key to them choosing MySQL was that we are now part of a much larger public corporation. The deal wouldn’t have [...]
MySQL Public Worklog and Community Focus
March 25, 2008 By 6 Comments
MySQL made some tasks from their internal task tracking tool – Worklog a while back. I just have not look at it besides checking Maria related tasks until couple of days ago as Jay announced new Forge going live. Check it out – there are a lot of nice ideas out where. I can find [...]
What should we say about Sun buying MySQL ?
January 21, 2008 By 2 Comments
Kaj wrote me email yesterday asking if I was sleeping for a whole week or may be dead because I’m probably the only one of people blogging about MySQL who has not commented about announced Sun – MySQL Deal. In fact I was just on extremely busy travel schedule last week, so I’m just finding [...]
MySQL Query Cache
July 27, 2006 By 70 Comments
MySQL has a great feature called “Query Cache” which is quite helpful for MySQL Performance optimization tasks but there are number of things you need to know. First let me clarify what MySQL Query Cache is – I’ve seen number of people being confused, thinking MySQL Query Cache is the same as Oracle Query Cache [...]
