Conference time! While I understand Frank’s feelings, there’s always hope that there will be some great “blog reports”, amazing IRC, and if at all, some form of podcasts.

However, if I was going to the MySQL Users Conference 2006, I’d probably attend things in this order:

• Monday - Arjen’s Optimizing MySQL Applications Using the Pluggable Storage Engine Architecture because this is important stuff all folk should learn about. Performance being the name of the game these days, it’d be silly to miss MySQL Performance Optimization that our very own performance guru, Peter …

Hey, look! LinuxQuestions.org did a poll and it turns out that lots of GNU/Linux users like MySQL :)

http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=30709&src=site-marq

14:34 < MThomas> Time to install and configure Sync Manager in development
                 environment: 4 days, one of which was 15 hours long.  Time to
                 install and configure in production: 30 minutes.

I’ve written a bit of documentation that might help you get things running in the same way:

• http://wiki.colliertech.org/index.php/MaxDB:Installation
• http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/syncman/part1.html
• Create a Synchronization Scenario

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As I distribute my card, the most common question I run into is "what does MySQL AB do?"

My answer is usually something like "we allow you to store a lot of information and process it efficiently."

But I've been thinking a bit, and perhaps a better quip might be "you know what the Central Intelligence Agency is, right? Well, we are the most popular database system used by the Decentralized Intelligence Agency, as it were."

:)

Hello MaxDB users, administrators, hobbyists and community!

This, the third of our weekly articles on MaxDB, will cover the installation of the MaxDB server and associated tools. One of the features the team is most proud of is MaxDB's ease of installation and the speed with which it occurs. It's been estimated that a DBA with no prior knowledge of the system can complete a basic installation in less than 15 minutes. Please note that this does not include download time.

More here:
http://wiki.colliertech.org/index.php/MaxDB:Installation

I got a phone call the other day from someone asking about MaxDB MailDB. He said that he got my phone number from something he read online. I publish my phone number with a lot of my writings, as well as the url to *this page you're reading now*

So some people call me on it sometimes. I might have to put up an asterisk filter some time if I get too many calls.

He called me to tell me that MailDB is the new Jesus Christ and that I should *sell sell sell*!!!! (!!!)

He didn't put it quite that way, but that's the gist of the conversation.

Those of you who are interested in buying, please accept a license to the following code under the GNU GPL:

http://colliertech.org/svn/maildb/

I spoke with my manager about working on this code for MySQL during work hours. That means that any work I do on it belongs …

I pushed live the new Wikipedia article on MaxDB.

The majority of the credit for this article goes to ulfw_rss, from the MaxDB group at MySQL

Listen to Digitally imported to get the url

Hey look! CIA uses MySQL:

http://cia.navi.cx/info

I sent mail to RMS the other day asking what he thought of MySQL's licensing scheme:

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