As Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 is launched along with the Open Application Services solution which includes PostgreSQL, the talk I gave at PostgreSQL East 2008 on "Best Practices with PostgreSQL on Solaris" might be helpful for many new users.

If there are questions let me know.

I started working on my upcoming talk at PGCon 2008 and realized that I haven't put my talk from PostgreSQL Conference East 2008  - PostgreSQL and Benchmarks online yet.

 More on the upcoming presentation later.

We made a very significant announcement last week, of a collaboration with one of the most (if not the most) security sensitive institutions on earth, the United States government's National Security Agency. They've joined the burgeoning OpenSolaris community, to collaborate with Sun and other community members on the future of ultra-secure operating systems.

To put this in context, community engagement has always been one of the most important ways Sun innovates in the marketplace - we partner with those that have extreme demands (whether it's the world's largest supercomputing facility, or the world's most paranoid security professionals (no offense intended), or the world's largest archival storage facilities), and then we leverage that expertise to create products for the mass market. We let extreme customers teach …

No, its not alphabet soup. Just some notes from the session at the Sun Tech Days. I’ve not looked at DTrace much (my only look into instrumentation, has been from SystemTap, which doesn’t deal with applications), but plan on doing so soon… I’ve managed to get OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 installed in VirtualBox, so it can only start being more fun from here…

Want to learn more about DTrace and MySQL? Then come to the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008, in Santa Clara, California, because on Thursday, Ben Rockwood, from Joyent, will be presenting a session on DTrace and MySQL (read the abstract, its good). The talk covers the fact that you can get useful information …

In my previous post I briefly mentioned Database Appliance with Project Indiana. Now that Sun has acquired MySQL (or as some people say MySQL has acquired Sun) and with our existing work in progress with PostgreSQL, there are quite a bit of options available of using some combination  of Storage, System, Operating System, Database  along with some end user application and present it as either Database Appliance or use it as Embedded Database. 

I thought I will just discuss the audience, symptoms, merits, cons etc regarding the two approach and how they can be useful. 

 The first question is who likes database appliances and who wants embedded database? To answer that I would put the question back: What do you in hand? A hammer or a screw-driver? Because if you have a hammer, the whole world is a nail to you and …

Today, Sun announced we've closed the acquisition of MySQL - MySQL is now officially a part of Sun! From a dinner meeting back in late November, through some introspection from MySQL's CEO, to a closing today in late February - everyone involved showed a great sense of pace, urgency and excitement. And now, it's off to the races!

Since the announcement, I've seen and heard near universal support for the relationship - most everyone wants to know where we're headed, so here's a quick overview of our initial plans.

Starting today, we're rolling out global programs to raise awareness and adoption of MySQL among more established enterprises - you'll see ads like this (to the right) targeting institutions and independent software/service vendors (ISV's) looking to …

With the acquisition of MySQL I expect that many people might end up comparing MySQL and PostgreSQL using sysbench. It is like a micro-benchmark utility which includes an oltp mode which is used quite a bit to show MySQL performance. It can actually also be used with PostgreSQL. So this post is about how to configure sysbench to work with PostgreSQL. (Primarily a note for myself since I had to do hunt around to get it configured for PostgreSQL).

 
First download the latest version of sysbench. I had downloaded the version sysbench-0.4.8. After gunzip/untar I had to to figure out few steps to get the right configure script for it.

I am going to use the Sun Studio Compiler (since PostgreSQL in my case is also built with Sun Studio Compiler). So I will need the compiler cc in my …

The reaction to Sun's Intended Acquisition of MySQL ( Jonathan's blog, Video) is very positive at the end of this first day. Some of the references are:

I’m sure by now you would have read the great news that is Sun Microsystems acquisition of MySQL!

Sun have been forging ahead in the Open Source world with OpenSolaris, an Operating System that scales to Enterprise proportions and is an ideal host for the number one Open Source Database Server that is MySQL.

Whether this will have any impact on the MySQL Linux / FreeBSD / Windows offerings is something I am sure the community will be watching closely, but in my experience Java runs much faster on Solaris as it can take advantage of the …

While working on MySQLDump.java this weekend I decided to look into the new features that are heading our way in MySQL 5.1. It cannot be long before we see a general release and I needed to start thinking of ways to backup items like Events. This also made a good opportunity to start afresh with my dev server and try out the latest Solaris 10 8/07 release with GlassFish v2, the releases just keep coming! (SXDE 9/07 was just released).

The Solaris 10 install was as smooth as previous releases (Using Text Based) …