http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/gpl-licensing-in-decline-191816 As Apache licenses proliferate, two warring camps have formed over whether the GPL is or isn’t falling out of favor
MariaDB includes a User Feedback plugin. When enabled, the plugin submits basic, completely anonymous MariaDB usage information. This information is used by the developers to track trends in MariaDB usage to better guide development efforts. To help make MariaDB better, simply add “plugin-load=feedback.so” to your my.cnf file! On Windows, add ”feedback=ON” to your my.ini file, or [...]
http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-AntiSQL-Coalition-.aspx “There is a small coalition of developers at the office who are vehemently anti-database,” writes Bob, “naturally, this faction also doesn’t value ‘experience’ — mostly, because they have none. At least, not outside their university studies. They’ll often liken a database server to a file system, and suggest that it’s just a convenient way [...]
My colleagues and I are looking for extra talent – is that you? What we do:help clients prevent problems (rather than being the fire department), we work on a subscription basis although we also do some ad-hoc consulting, and training. Apart from MySQL/MariaDB query and DBA work, we do quite a bit of system administration. [...]
This week, ten years ago, I was in London for MySQL AB‘s first “train the trainer” course, also meeting (for the first time) my first boss at MySQL Kaj. I’d been hired mid August as employee#25, also doing training but actually primarily as tech-writer for the MySQL documentation (taking over from Jeremy Cole, and essentially [...]
WikiLeaks Cable Offers New Insights into Oracle-Sun Deal (PC World) Nothing too new or shocking in there, but the cable does offer some interesting insights.
http://www.moserware.com/2009/09/stick-figure-guide-to-advanced.html Jeff Moser on software development
Some of you already know since you helped us move, we recently shifted Open Query’s main office to Fifth Avenue, next door to Elizabeth’s. The new place is comfortable, I really like it so far. Anna is also happy with her new admin space and cat Figaro has found an empty spot on a bookshelf [...]
As you may know Open Query uses PayPal for some of its financial transactions. I filed the following question with PayPal support. Note that with this question I regard it as completely immaterial whether one supports of Julien Assange or WikiLeaks actions or not. Naturally companies have the right to choose which clients to serve, [...]
The following quirky dynamic SQL will scan each index of each table so that they’re loaded into the key_buffer (MyISAM) or innodb_buffer_pool (InnoDB). If you also use the PBXT engine which does have a row cache but no clustered primary key, you could also incorporate some full table scans. To make mysqld execute this on [...]