Mosso the Rackspace Cloud now has a Drizzle developer image much like the first Drizzle AMI on EC2.

The Mosso interface is definitely different, it’s a GUI, and I definitely prefer CLI, but it’s a simpler navigation for a new user. I suspect an API may be available.

I had an issue with the backup process, more the lack of feedback. The Knowledge Base didn’t help, so both calling and Live Chat directed me ultimately to the same person. I also found a bug in the backup process, that is being able to select an incomplete backup to try and launch a new server. I talked to Support about and apparently already known.

And in true open source form, the Drizzle version is actually one point higher then yesterday’s AWS image.

Simple and short: Please do not screw things up. We like MySQL, millions of people like MySQL. Keep it alive and healthy and we’ll love you for it. That is all.

To me this is quite boring news. I already felt more distant to MySQL when it got scooped up by Sun and this sense of distance is the same now. Note this distance is still quite "travel-able" .. it just feels a bit like flying to another continent. Also I have essentially zero worries that Oracle will (try) to kill off MySQL or cripple it. MySQL is complementary to their current offerings. One thing I could see however is Oracle pushing for killing off some of the past cruft (and in the process beefing up Oracle compatibility). This last aspect brings me to something I consider much more interesting news.

EnterpriseDB (one of the companies that are active in the PostgreSQL eco-system) have teamed up with IBM to make DB2 more Oracle compatible. Given that IBM is an R&D heavy weight with plenty of developers on hand its quite impressive …

This weeks’ announcement Oracle to by Sun was a major talking point at the 2009 MySQL Conference & Expo. While it is too early to even speculate what the future holds with the official MySQL product, for myself a speaker on MySQL topics, Oracle Open World is now a target market.

In addition to many years of providing MySQL for the Oracle DBA Resources I have with the recent closure of call for papers submitted two sessions for consideration.

Integrating MySQL into your Oracle DBA management processes

Most large enterprise organizations use more then one RDBMS product to service business requirements. With the increase in MySQL usage for web …

“If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always gotten.”

Jim Rohn
Motivational speaker and author

I have published the very first sharable Drizzle Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for AWS EC2, based on the good feedback from my discussion at the Drizzle Developer Day on what options we should try.

This first version is a 32bit Developer instance, showcasing Drizzle and all necessary developer tools to build Drizzle from source.

What you will find on drizzle-ami/intrepid-dev32 - ami-b858bfd1

Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid 32 bit base server installation:

• build tools
• drizzle dependencies
• bzr 1.31.1

From the respective source trees the following software is available:

• drizzle 2009.04.997
• libdrizzle 0.0.2
• gearman 0.0.4
• memcached 1.2.8
• libmemcached 0.28

Drizzle has been configured with …

I joined about 50 others including a number of core MySQL developers and MySQL community members today for the 2009 Drizzle developers day at Sun Microsystems Santa Clara campus.

In addition to a number of presentations and various group discussions most of my individual hacking time was under the guidance of Drizzle team developer Stewart Smith were Patrick Galbraith and myself started the porting of Patrick’s memcached UDF functions for MySQL.

Leveraging some existing Drizzle plugin’s such as CRC32() and UNCOMPRESS() we were easily able to navigate the src/plugin/memcached directory plug.in, Makefile.am and drizzle_declare_plugin definition in the …

My final presentation during the 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo week was with the Percona Performance Conference on the topic of The Ideal Performance Architecture. My talk included discussions on Technology, Disk, Memory, Indexes, SQL and Data.

The Ideal Performance Architecture View more presentations from Ronald Bradford.

John Powell from eMapSite stopped by at the Whisper Suite in MySQL Users Conference earlier today to talk about his GlassFish issue. The possible workaround was suggested and then the discussion became interesting on how GlassFish is used for offshore monitoring of windfarms and process weather forecasting data. Hear all about it and watch a flashy demo of their product in this video:

NetBeans, GlassFish, and MySQL is their development stack with a "very positive experience"!

Stay tuned for the stories entry.

And the complete picture album is available at:
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The presentation file for the Dojo toolkit presentation at the Users Conference is now available.

You can find it on the conference session page.

I’ll be uploading the example scripts that work to produce the examples I gave once I’m back in the office after the conference.