Thankfully my RSS reader has builtin-search capability, so I can quickly skim the full RSS feed from blogs.sun.com for keywords of interest. I found the following articles quite helpful:

• Setting up MySQL Cluster using Solaris Zones by Hashamkha Pathan walks through the steps involved of setting up a virtual MySQL Cluster setup on a single Solaris instance (for evaluation purposes only - this is probably not the best idea for a productive HA environment)
• Mixing SQL and shell commands in MySQL by Amit Saha explains how to write scripts that execute both SQL statements and unix shell commands using the MySQL command line client
• …

While we're on the topic of Bazaar - this week I got informed by the organizers of the FrOSCon 2008 conference that they accepted two of my talk proposals: one session will be an introduction to this source code management system (what a coincidence), the other one will be an introduction to OpenSolaris for Linux users, explaining some of the underlying technologies and how they differ from what a seasoned Linux user may be accustomed to.

And no, I have not given up on using Linux - quite the contrary! I have been very impressed by the latest OpenSUSE 11.0 release and already run it for since quite some time on several of my work systems. In fact, I already convinced several colleagues of mine to …

In this post I shall show you how you can set up a MySQL community server on your Solaris installation.

Some useful information:

• Solaris installation: Solaris 10 (32-bit SPARC)
• MySQL 5.1.24-rc is the MySQL community server I am using for the demonstration (You may also try this with MySQL 5.1.25-rc, since the older tarball is not available officially anymore)
  

You will need the following tools:

• GNU Make (gmake): I am using GNU Make 3.80
• GNU C/C++ compiler:
  
  • gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)
  • g++ (GCC) 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)
    

• Download the MySQL 5.1.24-rc source tarball from  …

In this post I shall show you how you can set up a MySQL community server on your Solaris installation.

Some useful information:

• Solaris installation: Solaris 10 (32-bit SPARC)
• MySQL 5.1.24-rc is the MySQL community server I am using for the demonstration (You may also try this with MySQL 5.1.25-rc, since the older tarball is not available officially anymore)
  

You will need the following tools:

• GNU Make (gmake): I am using GNU Make 3.80
• GNU C/C++ compiler:
  
  • gcc (GCC) 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)
  • g++ (GCC) 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)
    

• Download the MySQL 5.1.24-rc source tarball from  …

One year ago, we announced that we would open source the entire Solaris Cluster product suite. Today, we are delivering on that promise six months ahead of schedule by releasing over two million lines of source code for the Solaris Cluster framework!

Read the official press release and listen to a podcast with Meenakshi Kaul-Basu, Director of Availability Products at Sun.

This third, and final, source code release follows the initial open sourcing of the Solaris Cluster agents in June, 2007 and Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition in December, 2007. As with the previous releases, the …

From May 28th-31st, the annual LinuxTag will take place in Berlin, Germany. I followed the growth and evolution of LinuxTag from the very early days and I have fond memories of the event back when it still took place at the University of Kaiserslautern and our SuSE "booth" was just a regular table taken from the lecture rooms...

Things have evolved a lot since then. Today, LinuxTag is one of the largest Linux/Open Source Events in Europe and my new employer Sun is a major sponsor this year. In addition to several talks and keynotes, there will be a large Sun booth in the exhibition area (Booth #205) and we will have a dedicated MySQL demo pod! Some of the things we plan to demo there are the upcoming MySQL Server releases (5.1, …

It is that time of the year when many PostgreSQL fans gather in Ottawa, Canada for PGCon 2008 next week. This will be my first visit to PGCon in Ottawa. Earlier this year I had presented two sessions "PostgreSQL and Benchmarks" and "Best Practices of PostgreSQL on Solaris" at PostgreSQL Conference 2008 East in Maryland. Thanks to that visit, this time I might recognize many people by face this time around.

Sun is a Gold Sponsor at PGCon 2008. There will be quite a bit of presence from Sun in PGCon. Josh, Max, Robert, Magne, Zdenek, Jim, Mayuresh et all will be present out there.

Josh Berkus is doing a tutorial on  "GUCs: A Three Hour Tour" on …

I briefly mentioned in my earlier post that OpenSolaris binary is probably just a chapter of a book. To really understand how the benefits of OpenSolaris lets look at the needs of a typical Software Application

A Software Application at a very base level of being a usage product needs the following:

1. Operating System: First and foremost which generally nobody wants to rewrite unless there is something missing that you really need. Generally it is part of "Systems requirement" which defines the operating systems supported.
2. Method of distributing the software: Either via CD, DVD or via internet downloads
3. Installer: Installing the software on the target machine
4. Patching/Upgrading: Upgrading the software when new versions are released (specially with security updates)

So how does OpenSolaris solve this problems?

Lets start with (1). For the first time that I am aware, …