These materials have been created in April 2009 and are outdated. No promises this still works.

Little idiots (culture clash - “Dear, Dummies”), please find a tutorial on how to compile a command line client using the MySQL Driver for C++ with Visual Studio."Little idiot" may sound offending to native speakers. But it is spot on to describe my skills about compiling a Connector/C++ client on Windows. I need step-by-step instructions including screen shots. You will find them below.

The Internet Super Hero has started as a Little Idiot. Back in 1999 and ealier little idiots speaking german and trying to learn how to use MySQL loved Guido Stepkens MySQL introduction at http://www.little-idiot.de/mysql/mysql.html. Thank you for this early contribution to MySQL 3.23 and PHP 3, Guido! I still love the URL - …

The first beta version of MySQL Connector/C++ is available for download. The MySQL Driver for C++ offers a convenient API derived from the industrial standard JDBC 4.0. You can use the driver to connect to the MySQL Server 5.1 or newer. Please find more details in the official announcement mail.

GA will be almost identical to Beta

The 1.0.4 beta release is the first combined source and binary release. You can either build the MySQL Driver for C++ from source yourself or use the convenience of a prebuild binary distribution. For the Windows platform we are offering the binaries as a MSI Installer or, like on all other platforms, compressed GNU tar …

The first beta version of MySQL Connector/C++ is available for download. The MySQL Driver for C++ offers a convenient API derived from the industrial standard JDBC 4.0. You can use the driver to connect to the MySQL Server 5.1 or newer. Please find more details in the official announcement mail.

GA will be almost identical to Beta

The 1.0.4 beta release is the first combined source and binary release. You can either build the MySQL Driver for C++ from source yourself or use the convenience of a prebuild binary distribution. For the Windows platform we are offering the binaries as a MSI Installer or, like on all other platforms, compressed GNU tar …

… is waiting for you at http://de.amiando.com/phpunconference. Hurry up to get a ticket for the PHP Unconference 2009 in Hamburg/Germany (12.-13.09.2009): 26% of the tickets sold during the first 6 hours.

I have received the invitation letter via email at 11:51 am my time. It is now 6:05 pm. There are 180 tickets available. The participant list shows 47 participants. Do the math: 26% of the tickets have been sold during the last six hours. At this speed the event will be sold out within a day: Register now!

My personal take on the PHP Unconference is that it is in no way less interesting than any other PHP conference I have been to since the year 2000. If you have something …

… is waiting for you at http://de.amiando.com/phpunconference. Hurry up to get a ticket for the PHP Unconference 2009 in Hamburg/Germany (12.-13.09.2009): 26% of the tickets sold during the first 6 hours.

I have received the invitation letter via email at 11:51 am my time. It is now 6:05 pm. There are 180 tickets available. The participant list shows 47 participants. Do the math: 26% of the tickets have been sold during the last six hours. At this speed the event will be sold out within a day: Register now!

My personal take on the PHP Unconference is that it is in no way less interesting than any other PHP conference I have been to since the year 2000. If you have …

As of PHP 5.3 the PHP MySQL extension mysqli (ext/mysqli) supports Persistent Database Connections. Persistent Connections are new to ext/mysqli but not new to ext/mysql or PDO. The news behind the news is the usage of COM_CHANGE_USER (C-API: mysql_change_user()) by ext/mysqli - no side effects any more. The "flagship" has idiot-proof Persistent Connections.

If you do not know what Persistent Database Connections are and you speak german I would like to point you to my guest …

As of PHP 5.3 the PHP MySQL extension mysqli (ext/mysqli) supports Persistent Database Connections. Persistent Connections are new to ext/mysqli but not new to ext/mysql or PDO. The news behind the news is the usage of COM_CHANGE_USER (C-API: mysql_change_user()) by ext/mysqli - no side effects any more. The "flagship" has idiot-proof Persistent Connections.

If you do not know what Persistent Database Connections are and you speak german I would like to point you to my guest …

MySQL Connector/C++ 1.0.2 alpha is available for download at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/cpp/1.0.html, please see also the official announcement. Only three weeks after the first alpha, we decided to release a X-Mas edition. Not only the winter evenings in the northern hemisphere have become quite long also the Change History got quite long. Long enough for a bug fix release which brings some minor feature additions and includes our JDBC compliance test suite for the first time. MySQL Connector/C++ 1.0.2 alpha is a source code only release, meaning that you will have to compile it yourself. …

MySQL Connector/C++ 1.0.2 alpha is available for download at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/cpp/1.0.html, please see also the official announcement. Only three weeks after the first alpha, we decided to release a X-Mas edition. Not only the winter evenings in the northern hemisphere have become quite long also the Change History got quite long. Long enough for a bug fix release which brings some minor feature additions and includes our JDBC compliance test suite for the first time. MySQL Connector/C++ 1.0.2 alpha is a source code only release, meaning that you will have to compile it yourself. Please …

You know how to build MySQL Connector/C++ and write applications, because you have read my previous post MySQL Connector/C++: compiling, using and debugging. And, of course, its not working. therefore you try the debug trace. Are you capable of handling all the information in it? I am a lamer. The only Vi command I know is ":q".And I know nothing about sed and grep, therefore none of these can help me filtering the debug log. But I know a bit of PHP. I wrote myself a PHP script for filtering MySQL Connector/C++ debug traces when we started working on MySQL …