… conference has always been vital not only to MySQL and those who care about MySQL, but also to the many companies that use and enhance MySQL, and that contribute far more to MySQL than might be apparent. But after the acquisitions by Sun and Oracle…
Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
March 6, 2012 By 17 Comments
… decided to just keep rolling out the latest version of MySQL for the moment and look to the possibility of switching…. Upgrading to the latest version of MySQL is fine from a general perspective, but Oracle (and Sun before them) don’t just… why distributions like to pin release versions.) Given MariaDB is MySQL with patches, I’m not sure quite how much that…
Post: A piece of Sun/MySQL Marketing
February 27, 2008 By 7 Comments
… Sun/MySQL Newsletter Today which among other things lead to the site publishing among other things links to various stuff related to Sun and MySQL and among other things – These Benchmarks This may be… Virtualization Software” used with Windows is a crap ? Remembering horrible MySQL performance loss from Xen and VMWARE It is quite possible…
Post: What should we say about Sun buying MySQL ?
January 21, 2008 By 2 Comments
… the only one of people blogging about MySQL who has not commented about announced Sun – MySQL Deal. In fact I was just on… good as they can with Linux ? Will Sun follow Open Source spirit of MySQL Founders (and I mean Founders because spirit is…, our consulting company this is mostly positive development. Sun will work on expanding MySQL market further which will mean more consulting work…
Post: Another ingenious piece of Sun Marketing
March 20, 2009 By 20 Comments
… mail from Sun/MySQL employees which tended to agree with me on this being the a large stretch. I would hope Sun/MySQL would tone it down and actually spend time on making things to scale inside MySQL rather than asking… my old post about T2000 performance with Sun comments about Sun not pushing this as scalable MySQL platform. Well this is T5440 now…
Post: How many people will leave MySQL now ?
March 21, 2008 By 7 Comments
… the recent days we had few announcements of people leaving Sun/MySQL – few days ago I’ve seen announcement by Ronald Bradford… the size what matters – MySQL may be able to stay relatively independent branch, though large companies like Sun will still enforce complicated… it is different enough not to be as comfortable as MySQL for many people. I do not advocate either way. Everyone…
Post: Finding your MySQL High-Availability solution - The definitions
October 9, 2009 By 10 Comments
… (HA) options available for MySQL. I have done dozen of MySQL HA related engagements while working for Sun/MySQL over the last couple… to improve the availability of a computer service, like a MySQL database. High-availability, HA for short, introduces a wealth…. In our case, dedicated to high availability of the MySQL database service. With theses common definitions, we will then be…
Post: Looking for MySQL 4.0 Support post EOL ?
December 14, 2008 By 9 Comments
… to MySQL 3.23 and 4.0 Supporting MySQL 3.23 and MySQL 4.0 environment is indeed more expensive than current MySQL versions because we can’t relay on Sun/MySQL… versions correctly. For example remember to use set-variable in MySQL 3.23 or remembering all optimizer issues which were fixed…
Post: Tom Basil (formerly MySQL's Director of Support) Joins Percona
December 4, 2008 By 13 Comments
… Officer! It is Tom Basil, who was Employee #11 at MySQL and led the Support organization there for almost eight years… them! And Tom actively recruited me for a position at MySQL Support almost exactly a year ago, but I joined Percona… Sun/MySQL and come join us? In his own words, slightly paraphrased, Vision. Tom knows that we have replicated the vision of MySQL…
Post: MySQL Error Message Nonsenses
March 16, 2008 By 7 Comments
… absolutely misleading error messages produced when this limit is reached: mysql> insert into yt values (66666); ERROR 1114 (HY000): The table… transactions running concurrently? I hope with pluggable storage engine interface Sun/MySQL spends some time to make things consistent. There should be…
