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On January 15th I will be in Sydney, Au, on my way to Wellington, New Zealand. I will be at the MySQL User Group, hosted at the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts at 5.30pm. I will talk about testing complex database systems with MySQL Sandbox. The meeting is open to all. If you want to attend, please register at the Sydney MySQL User Group meetup page. |
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13
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11
2010
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On January 13th I will be in Dubai, UAE, on my way to Wellington, New Zealand. I will be at the MySQL User Group, hosted at Sun Microsystems offices at 6pm. I will talk about boosting performance with MySQL 5.1 partitions, covering the recent 5.5. additions. The meeting is open to all. If you want to attend, please register at the meetup page. |
Jan
09
2010
FOSDEM 2010, Sunday 7 February, the MySQL Developer Room packed with 12 talks! And this year we serve Python just before the lunch break.
In 20 minutes I'll try to give an overview of the drivers currently available for connecting your Python applications with MySQL. Incase you wonder, this will not evolve around MySQL Connector/Python alone!
We'll also go over some frameworks and tools like SQLAlchemy.
20 minutes, it's not much, but should be enough. I hope to get a similar talk accepted for the MySQL Conference&Expo 2010.
Jan
08
2010
We are happy to announce the selected sessions for our "MySQL and Friends" developer room at FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, Belgium. It will take place on Sunday, 7th of February from 9:00-17:00 in Room AW1.121.
In total, we received 20 submissions from 15 speakers. We'd like to thank them very much for their great proposals!
As we only have 12 speaking slots (20 mins each) available that day, we first needed to perform a selection process. Unfortunately there wasn't enough time to perform a full-blown voting process that involved the community at large. Since we didn't want to do this in a completely closed committee, we decided to involve all speakers that submitted a talk in this.
After this voting process, the final candidates are (ordered by last name).
Update: Mikael …
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Jan
05
2010
A Happy New Year to all of you! About a month ago we posted our initial Call for Papers for the MySQL Developer Room at FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels, Belgium. We already received several great submissions and we'd like to thank the speakers who contributed their suggestions so far. But we would like to get some more!
Therefore we decided to extend the deadline for a few more days: you can still submit your talk proposals until tomorrow (Wednesday, 6th)!
So if you think you have an interesting MySQL-related topic to
talk about, we'd like to hear about it! Thanks.
Jan
04
2010
It's been interesting watching the MySQL drama unfold, but I have to take issue when people start trying to drag Postgres into it again by spreading FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt). Rather than simply rebut the FUD, I thought this was a good opportunity to examine the strength of the Postgres project.
Monty recently espoused the following in a blog comment:
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Dec
21
2009
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The MySQL Conference 2010, with Sun Microsystems as a founding sponsor, has been announced and the call for participation is open. It's coming later than usual, but it's an opportunity for would be speakers. They will be able to propose talks based on the latest technology, making it even more interesting for attendees. Some of the program is already online. The tutorial page has a great lineup of speakers and advanced topics. More will … |
Dec
15
2009
Following our new Milestone-based release model, we've now published MySQL 5.5.0-M2. Please see the
"What's New in MySQL 5.5" section of the reference
manual for a summary of the most notable changes. The MySQL 5.5.0 Changelog provides a much more
detailed list of changes, bug fixes and improvements.
Highlights in this release include:
The InnoDB plugin (currently at version 1.0.5) replaces the built-in InnoDB storage engine. This version includes a number of important performance …
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Dec
13
2009
In an amazing display of chutzpah, Monty Widenius recently asked on his blog for people to write to the EC about the takeover of Sun by Oracle and its effect on MySQL, saying:
I, Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL, is asking you urgently to help save MySQL from Oracle's clutches. Without your immediate help Oracle might get to own MySQL any day now. By writing to the European Commission (EC) you can support this cause and help secure the future development of the product MySQL as an Open Source project.
"Help secure the future development"? Sorry, but that ship has sailed. Specifically, when MySQL was sold to Sun. There were many other missed opportunities over the years to keep MySQL as a good open source project. Some of the missteps:
- Bringing in venture capitalists
- Selling to Sun instead of making …
Dec
13
2009
It has been a tough Autumn for all of us so it is a pleasure to finally blog on some good news! O'Reilly has finally announced the next MySQL User Conference.