Markus Popp writes some very nice things (http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?95,31287) about MySQL Network (thanks Markus, we try our best), but perhaps even more importantly, he is responsible for an initiative at http://www.db4free.net offering database access for free to other web developers. That’s nice, because he’s offering MySQL 5.0, and many hosting providers will some time to get [...]
Lots of people responded to our little quiz on slashdot: MySQL Mug and Ten Years of MySQL and PHP According to Monty, the correct answer for MySQL Version 1.0 is 23rd May 1995. So now you know! Two people got really close, 20th and 26th May, so they will each get an anniversary mug and [...]
http://www.mysql-hispano.org/ It’s great to have an active user community.
The MySQL “Internals” document is finally online: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/ Contains lots of neat info about internal MySQL server stuff, explaining how many things work, how things are stored, etc.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/28/0738234&tid=221&tid=218 Jamesday writes “Monty Widenius accepted a plaque celebrating ten years of MySQL and PHP at LinuxTag. Until the end of June MySQL also has some 10th anniversary MySQL mugs on sale which feature the names of all MySQL employees in April 2005, about 200 people who can personally testify that you can make a [...]
Everybody, this is really important – particularly if you’re in Europe (ok, so I live in Australia – but I’m Dutch and I still have a vote there). If you are also a voting European and can -in any way- make a noise about this, now is the time to do so! Software patents are [...]
Roland Bouman has created a conceptual model of the MySQL 5.0 Data Dictionary database. Here it is: http://www.xcdsql.org/Misc/MySQL5.0.7_INFORMATION_SCHEMA.html A very nice contribution to the MySQL Beta Challenge! Thanks Roland.
Well, as you know both MySQL and PHP are celebrating their 10th birthday this year. Monty and Rasmus were both at LinuxTag (Stuttgart, Germany) recently, where they received a rather nicely rendered image created by Mike Zinner and his brother. Picture here: http://gallery.24days.de/lt_lamp/imgp0766 Neat.
Do you know the MySQL Instance Manager? The Instance Manager? Yes, the Instance Manager. Do you know the MySQL Instance Manager? Which lives in MySQL 5.0 ? (free adaptation of that horrid “Do you know the Muffin Man?” story) MySQL Instance Manager (IM) is a daemon running on a TCP/IP port, which serves for monitoring [...]
A friend of mine received this – it may be an old joke, but this is the first time MySQL was seen mentioned in it. I think that’s kind of an honour A cowboy was holding his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. [...]