Updated On good advice from Sheeri I made a few comments clearer.

We have proposed that the integral “MySQL Community Photo Day” be on Thursday April 17 2008, the final day of the MySQL Users Conference.

Wear a t-shirt from an open source community project on Thursday, whether a PrimeBase PBXT one or your favorite open source project (of course I prefer the first option). Get your photo taken with the masses of community supporters. If your not attending this year, this doesn’t mean you can’t also contribute a photo yourself from what location you are from. Save a saving fund for next year but get us a photo.

It doesn’t have to just be Thursday, we will accept photos at any time before then. Upload a photo and win a prize. (Baron you definitely get chocolate)
We have created a Flickr group called “MySQL Community Photo Day” at …

There has been some discussion recently regarding the death of MySQL Read Replication starting with Brian Aker and then Farhan, Arjen and Paul have all chimed in. Whatever you want to call it, the next generation of replication approach is clearly on the agenda of the industry leaders and pack followers. We should take a programmatic look however and ask ourselves a few questions. Such as:

1. The Use — What is/was MySQL Replication used for?
2. The Reasons — Why was it used?
3. The Problems — Why is there a need for something better, different or …

This week I’d expected to hear good friend Giuseppe (CCO) Maxia speak about MySQL SandBox at the Hamburg MySQL April Meetup.

This is product I’ve thought about using, wanted to use, but just never got to the point to using. I download the current version 1.18, I had MySQL tar’s already of 5.0, 5.1 and 6.0 and was all ready until the late topic change.

However due to the language barrier in the second talk, I got a one-on-one lesson. Now I know how it works, and understands the strengths I can use it as part of my standard vanilla testing. There are some improvements I could see, something perhaps I can contribute if they allow a Perl part-timer too. The joy of open source is I can add, modify, change and submit my work, if …

There is a Linked In group I created some time ago but forgot to advertise that is for MySQL Speakers and Presenters.

If you a speaker or presenter of MySQL content, confirm your registration here.
You will need to have a reference to a website confirming you have been a speaker at a MySQL Event such as a User Conference, MySQL Camp or Local MySQL Users Group.

Hopefully overtime we can build a consolidated index at MySQL Forge Presently some pages exist including MySQL Conference & Expo and User Group Presentations but I’m accepting input for a model to have a central page, and link to or …

I’ll be following closely the progression of Storage Engines available in the MySQL Database server, well soon to be available when 5.1 gets to GA (hopefully by end of Q2 which is what we have been told). Tick, Tick, time is running out.

PrimeBase XT (PBXT) and Blob Streaming is obviously my clear focus, actually now working for PrimeBase Technologies, the company which I want to note for people is an Open Source company, committed at providing an open source alternative to the other commercial players. You also have at the MySQL Conference talks on the the existing InnoDB from Innobase (a subsidiary of market RDBMS leader Oracle). There is a …

Tonight’s Hamburg MySQL Meetup was a packed room of 60-70 people at Sun in Hamburg. The most I’ve seen @ a MySQL Meetup across three cities, countries, continents and years (my first Oct 5, 2004).

As expected most was in German. Pity, I would have liked to hear about Open Office and MySQL. Giuseppe, CCO (That’s Chief Cartoon Officer - I liked that one) gave in English a general review of MySQL. He highlighted the reasons “Why did Sun by MySQL?” including most popular, most dynamic and people with the Freedom to work anywhere.

Three points I would like to re-iterate for the community.

• The

MySQL Forge contains the Worklogs, i.e. what is going to be developed in current & future …

While I mentioned in Not Stuck, “thanks to those concerned”, perhaps I did not illustrate clearly that I was suitability moved by the genuine concern of close friends regarding my plight, and I did really appreciate the comments and initial feedback.

I’ve talked with close friends such as Jay, Frank, Marc and tonight both Giuseppe and Sheeri and while I’ve been told it’s a good one, and we laughed and smiled I do value the genuine friends I have in the MySQL Community.

My apologies for any personal pain cause during April 1st. I hoped that I’d replied via email to each commenter promptly …

I’ve managed my first week (well 4 days) at my new employer PrimeBase Technologies. Another open source company, a different open source company, my second in succession . A company that actually has it’s parent roots in the commercial sector and this is now branching into Open Source and supporting the community.

While my departure from MySQL was really no surprise to friends within the MySQL community, just some shock of the accelerated timing. Actually it should not have been a shock to my employer either as I’d expressed clearly these intentions in two reviews in the past twelve months. My April Fool’s managed to shock and catch out many to continue this saga.

Our focus has been the …

I had need to show my new employer the official MySQL business shirt, so I did a Google Search on “mysql conference photos” (without the quotes) as I know I’ve seen photos of staff at the conference online before. Google Search Link

To my utter surprise, Google provided 3 image search results. Two of them were of Paul McCUllagh, colleague of my new company PrimeBase Technologies. Not only was this unexpected, the first image of Paul was actually from my own Blog. Go figure how we managed that Search Engine Optimization.

Here I am at my desk sporting the PrimeBase supporters t-shirt that will be available at the exhibitors booth at the 2008 MySQL Conference. The front is rather uneventful with the official logo, but the back will be worth the experience. So everybody interested in supporting PBXT as the transactional storage engine for MySQL developed by the community and for the community, please come and see us and mention the secret password.

We have been placed way back in the right hand side of the exhibitors hall at booth 518, in front of the Open Source and OEM providers.