http://jcole.us/blog Jeremy Cole's take on life. Sun, 31 May 2009 22:44:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you participate at all in the MySQL Meetup circuit, by now it's likely you've heard that the agreement currently in place between Meetup.com and MySQL/Sun is expiring quite soon. Because of that, MySQL Meetups which used to be free for organizers are reverting to paid status very soon ... http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2009/05/13/an-offer-to-sponsor-your-mysql-meetup/ I have been silent on the topic of this year's MySQL conference, and really, silent in nearly all ways anyway. Today, as the MySQL Users Conference Conference and Expo 2009 starts up, some people will be wondering where I am, so I ought to at least answer that: I ... http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2009/04/20/skipping-the-mysql-conference-and-expo-2009/ This morning, Barack Obama was in Reno, at UNR for one of his Rally for Change events. Since I haven't seen him in person before, I figured I would go up there and see him speak, take some pictures, etc. It was pretty awesome, and he gave a ... http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2008/10/25/obama-rally-for-change-in-reno/ As of today, Proven Scaling has launched an official blog, which we'll all be writing entries on. Check it out and subscribe! http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2008/07/28/proven-scaling-launches-official-blog/ All of this talk of Drizzle (a fork of the MySQL server by Brian and Monty) has reminded me of a topic I have wanted to discuss for quite some time... One of the things that sets MySQL apart (in, IMHO, a very bad way) from other Open Source database projects/products ... http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2008/07/23/on-mysql-forks-and-mysqls-non-open-source-documentation/ Kaj just announced that as of 5.1.25, MySQL Cluster will no longer be included in the normal MySQL packages. Instead, a new branch is being created for MySQL Cluster releases, where the first release is informally called "6.2.15" but the releases are really named "mysql-5.1.23-ndb-6.2.15". This new branch ... http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2008/05/23/mysql-cluster-splits-from-mysql-not-pluggable/ Yum is an extremely popular system to download, install, and update RPM-based packages from multiple repositories. Proven Scaling has launched a set of repositories to augment the existing central distributions' repositories with packages our customers need for deploying MySQL-based systems. We've been working on it for a while, ... http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2008/04/17/now-available-proven-scaling-mysql-yum-repository/ My slides have just been uploaded for the talk I just gave at the MySQL Conference and Expo 2008 titled "Scaling out MySQL: Hardware today and tomorrow". You can download them now as PPT and PDF. Thanks for coming to my talk! http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2008/04/17/scaling-out-mysql-hardware-today-and-tomorrow/ Yesterday, Oracle's Ken Jacobs and Heikki Tuuri, creator of InnoDB, have announced the immediate release of InnoDB Plugin 1.0 for MySQL 5.1. I've already downloaded it and played around with it a bit. I haven't had time to do any performance benchmarks or similar just yet. Those ... http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2008/04/16/bravo-oracle-innodb-plugin-10-released/ Just announced at the MySQL Partner meeting as part of the MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, CA: MySQL will start offering some features (specifically ones related to online backups) only in MySQL Enterprise. This represents a substantive change to their development model — previously they have been developing ... http://jcole.us/blog/archives/2008/04/14/just-announced-mysql-to-launch-new-features-only-in-mysql-enterprise/