I am happy to announce that there now is a MySQL User Group in Los Angeles, California! Their first meetup will take place on Nov. 19th at 7:30pm, Carl Gelbart will give a presentation about "Infobright, an Open Source Data Warehouse". The location has not been finalized yet, it seems: Sun offered them to choose between one of their locations in Universal City, El Segundo or Irvine. Thanks a lot to Joe Devon for stepping up and volunteering to organize this group, it's appreciated!

And if you are not able to join the LA MySQL User Group because you live somewhere else - take a look at http://mysql.meetup.com/ for a local MySQL User Group in your area! If there isn't one yet, have you …

I am happy to announce that there now is a MySQL User Group in Los Angeles, California! Their first meetup will take place on Nov. 19th at 7:30pm, Carl Gelbart will give a presentation about "Infobright, an Open Source Data Warehouse". The location has not been finalized yet, it seems: Sun offered them to choose between one of their locations in Universal City, El Segundo or Irvine. Thanks a lot to Joe Devon for stepping up and volunteering to organize this group, it's appreciated!

And if you are not able to join the LA MySQL User Group because you live somewhere else - take a look at http://mysql.meetup.com/ for a local MySQL User Group in your area! If there isn't one yet, have you …

I know that this is well documented in many places on the web, but one of the comments that I saw to an earlier blog post was around installing MySQL via OpenSolaris.  David Comay provided some answers in the comments, which I thought that I would reiterate here.  This works for OpenSolaris 2008.05.

With a one line command, you can install MySQL:

pfexec pkg install SUNWmysql5

If you are looking for the entire AMP stack, you can install Apache, MySQL, and PHP using the command:

pfexec pkg install amp

And, if you are looking for the entire AMP stack with developer tools, use the following command:

pfexec pkg install amp-dev

Note that pfexec will allows you to run a privileged command as a non-root user provided that you have the authorization to do so.


The software that is installed with the commands above is placed in …

My colleague, Tom Daly, just submitted results for SPECj that showcases a compelling price / performance story with Glassfish, MySQL 5.0, and OpenSolaris on commodity Sun Intel hardware.  See the full details here.

As part of the MySQL on Sun hardware launch, Allan Packer put together 3 short technical videos on MySQL. 

• Introduction to MySQL Architecture and Typical Deployments (approximately 8 minutes)
  

This video give an introduction to MySQL architecture including storage engines, a release status update, and typical deployment scenarios, which includes horizontal scaling via replication and shards.  It also gives some advice on how to deploy MySQL on Sun systems today.

• Tuning and Monitoring MySQL (approximately 10 minutes)

This video highlights how to tune MySQL for optimal performance and includes details on which binaries are the right …

You might be wondering what's been happening with MySQL performance since Sun arrived on the scene. The good news is that we haven't been idle. There's been general recognition that MySQL could benefit from some performance and scalability enhancements, and Sun assembled a cross-organizational team immediately after the acquisition to get started on it. We've enjoyed excellent cooperation between the engineers from both organizations.

This kind of effort is not new for Sun - we've been working with proprietary database companies on performance for years, with source code for each of the major databases on site to help the process. In this case, the fact that the MySQL engineers are working for the same company certainly simplifies a lot of things.

If you'd like to get some insight into what's been happening, a video has just …

You might be wondering what's been happening with MySQL performance since Sun arrived on the scene. The good news is that we haven't been idle. There's been general recognition that MySQL could benefit from some performance and scalability enhancements, and Sun assembled a cross-organizational team immediately after the acquisition to get started on it. We've enjoyed excellent cooperation between the engineers from both organizations.

This kind of effort is not new for Sun - we've been working with proprietary database companies on performance for years, with source code for each of the major databases on site to help the process. In this case, the fact that the MySQL engineers are working for the same company certainly simplifies a lot of things.

If you'd like to get some insight into what's been happening, a video has just …

You might be wondering what's been happening with MySQL performance since Sun arrived on the scene. The good news is that we haven't been idle. There's been general recognition that MySQL could benefit from some performance and scalability enhancements, and Sun assembled a cross-organizational team immediately after the acquisition to get started on it. We've enjoyed excellent cooperation between the engineers from both organizations.

This kind of effort is not new for Sun - we've been working with proprietary database companies on performance for years, with source code for each of the major databases on site to help the process. In this case, the fact that the MySQL engineers are working for the same company certainly simplifies a lot of things.

If you'd like to get some insight into what's been happening, a video has just …

Did you see the press release today, called “Sun MySQL Server Solution“?

What it means is that we start seeing the fruits of what we’ve been talking about all along since the acquisition, such as when launching MySQL this week in Argentina and in Uruguay:

• That Sun remains committed to MySQL’s cross-platform presence, doing at least as much as before the acquisition on any individual platform or for any individual stack.

• That the acquisition of MySQL through …

Uruguay is the Switzerland of South America, in many ways: when it comes to bank secrets, to the size of the country, and to the relative cleanliness compared to neighbouring countries. Uruguay has a similar accent to that of Buenos Aires, and a highly developed economy with demanding database users.

Like yesterday in Argentina, I could today be part of the MySQL launch in Uruguay. Following our script from Argentina (meet press, present to customers, meet individual customers), the difference in Uruguay is that we mostly work through partners.

The most prominent Sun partner in Uruguay is Arnaldo C. Castro S.A. They hosted our customer event in hotel Cala di Volpe (Giuseppe told me this Italian name means “Bay of Foxes”, and quite like Argentina, Uruguay has plenty of Italian immigrants). I met with plenty of representatives for …