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One thing I haven't seen anybody commenting on is the fact that with SAP acquiring Sybase, it will be the last major independent database company to be merged into a larger SW company. (To say this, you can qualify MySQL AB as a major database company, but disqualify, say, EnterpriseDB or InterBase, which imho is entirely reasonable.)
Microsoft makes a patent promise. JBoss is certifiable. And more.
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# Microsoft announced that it will be applying its Community Promise to the ECMA 334 (C#) and ECMA 335 (CLI) specifications, reducing patent concerns related to Mono.
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[Read more]A year ago, the outline was being written. A lot of work was crammed into the intervening months, and I am happy and proud to announce that the MySQL Administrator’s Bible has been published, and is sitting on the shelf at many major booksellers already. The official publication date is today — Monday, May 11th, 2009 — although some stores have had copies for a week, including Amazon.com.
The MySQL Administrator’s Bible, published by Wiley Press (available on Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/MySQL-Administrators-Bible-Sheeri-Cabral/dp/0470416912/, fully covers how to administer MySQL 5.1. It is suitable for people new to MySQL, although as an experienced MySQL DBA I can say that I learned a lot while researching and writing this book, and I believe that even veteran DBAs can learn from this book.
This book for …
[Read more]I confess — I have not always been an exclusive MySQL user. I have fooled around with other DBMSs. I was young, inexperienced, and I needed the money, I swear!
This comes about because I was doing some electronic de-crufting….From a file last modified on 10:50 am on 2005-06-30:
> more addcatalog.sh #!/bin/sh db2 catalog tcpip node $1 remote $2 server 50000 db2 terminate db2 catalog database sample as $2 at node $1 db2 terminate # [db2inst1@midgard db2inst1]$ db2sql92 -a db2inst3/password -d coworkername
And from the same time-frame there’s also:
Went to the dentist today. No cavities which has been the case
for
two decades. I do need to have one part of my gums repaired.
The
dentist was trying to take a picture of the gum so that I can see
the
required work.
And what appears on the screen?
A windows warning complaining about Sybase crashing via the ODBC
driver.
The dentist laughed when he saw my face and asked me if I
knew
anything about computers :)