I was very pleased to see that the SSL-related MySQL Bug #62743 was just fixed.

Here is the bug for reference:

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=62743

In essence, the –ssl-key value was not validated, thus anything could have been specified there.

Your connection would have still been SSL encrypted, which was good at least, but your SSL Key would not have made any difference.

This fix will be included in versions 5.1.66, 5.5.28, 5.6.7, 5.7.0.

For reference, here is the entry that will go into the changelogs:

“The argument to the –ssl-key option was not verified to exist and be
a valid key. The resulting connection used SSL, but the key was not
used.”

Over the past few weeks since joining SkySQL as CEO, I have been meeting with team members to learn more about each person's views on the company, our customers and the industry. The team has done an amazing job since this company of original MySQLers re-emerged onto the scene more than a year and a half ago. We now have over 300 customers globally with very high satisfaction on the quality of services provided. July has for me been all about understanding the unique company culture and heritage from MySQL, and how we as a team can capitalize on our strengths to solve the challenges that our customers face while increasing the attractiveness of the MySQL ecosystem and community.

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Meet The SkySQL Team At OSCON 2012!

“I remember my first OSCON in 2001 and the passionate debates we had on the impact the open source movement was going to make …”

This is a quote from a conversation that some SkySQLers were having this week in Paris, where we met to discuss the future - ours and that of the MariaDB & MySQL databases as well as open source technologies in general!

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At a time when most companies are doing all they can to maintain the status quo, SkySQL is daring to imagine a new “normal”. We’re on a mission to change the way companies interact with and manage their data, both in the enterprise and in the cloud. Along with our strategic partners, in particular MariaDB, we’re working to develop new open source database solutions that challenge proprietary enterprise solutions and business models.

To help us achieve our goal, we’re looking for a few daring open source engineers to join our team and take on the status quo:

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SkySQL is hiring! Would you like to join a fast-paced, high-growth company where you’re able to make a difference? Please email us your CV, today, at careers@skysql.com. We look forward to hearing from you!

Here are our current open positions:

QA Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

SkySQL Support Engineer – EMEA

Senior Sales Engineers – EMEA & North America

Senior Consultants – EMEA & North America

For those interested, …

New quick-start guide for MySQL DBAs: SkySQL™ Enterprise Monitor makes managing your MySQL & MariaDB databases that much easier

We’ve just published a new Quick Start Guide to SkySQL™ Enterprise Monitor for all MySQL & MariaDB DBAs out there, who are looking for ways to manage their databases more easily.

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Hosted by Binlogic, the MySQL/NoSQL/Cloud Latin American Conference at the Hilton Buenos Aires in Argentina, June 26-28th, will bring together key members of the of open source database community for two intense days of technical talks and tutorials on popular open source databases like MySQL, MariaDB, and Drizzle; NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and CouchDB; and related technologies such as the Soir and Sphinx search engines.

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Dan Berry and Heather Sullivan discuss how Constant Contact architected their replication strategy. Recorded at  SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL® Database.

Robert Hodges & Giuseppe Maxia of Continuent present this talk on Tungsten. Continuent Tungsten's architecture makes creating complex topologies, such as multi-master, really easy and allows for outstanding performance using parallel replication and pre-fetching. Users of this technology can deal with their clusters as if they were a single server, thanks to the transparent connectivity that

Over the past few days extensive conversations around a new security vulnerability in MariaDB and MySQL have taken place.

It all started as a chain reaction when Monty Program publicly disclosed information about the flaw they had found and about how to make sure your MariaDB and MySQL installations can be fixed. The initial information got assigned the security vulnerabitlity identifier CVE-2012-2122 and the contents can be seen e.g. here http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q2/493 .

The bug was found two months ago on April 4th.

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