http://openquery.com/blog About MySQL, Drizzle, MariaDB and more! Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:39:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a note that my personal blog resides on lentz.com.au/blog/ The story is this... I first started my blog when at MySQL AB, the Community Relations gig. It was a mix of personal and MySQL-related stuff, and hosted at LiveJournal. Last year we managed to migrate all the LiveJournal data to ... http://openquery.com/blog/arjens-personal-blog-lentzcomau Matt Asay writes today in Oracle loses some MySQL mojo about Ken Jacobs leaving Oracle. For me, that's a major bummer. Ken has been a long-time visitor of the MySQL Conference and that's where I first met him: a friendly and knowledgeable person, on database technology in general but also ... http://openquery.com/blog/ken-jacobs-leaves-oracle At DrupalSouth 2010 (Wellington) after LCA2010, Peter and I implemented a Drupal module as a practical example of how the OQGRAPH engine can be used to enable social networking trickery in any website. The friendlist_graph module (available from GitHub) extends friendlist, which implements basic functionality of friends (2-way) and fans ... http://openquery.com/blog/friendlist-graph-modul-for-drupal MySQL requires special consideration in the Oracle+Sun merger, otherwise both Oracle and MySQL users and vendors will literally pay the price. If you agree, please sign this petition now. To be very clear, Open Query is in favour of the merger, we feel that overall it's a good fit. We would also ... http://openquery.com/blog/sunmysqlpetition Numeric types in MySQL have two varieties: - "precise" types such as INTEGER and DECIMAL; - the IEEE-standard floating point types FLOAT and DOUBLE. As a rule of thumb, the first group are for exact, "counted" quantities. The INTEGER types represent whole numbers, and DECIMAL represents "fixed point" decimal, with a preset number ... http://openquery.com/blog/data-numeric-types You've probably seen Monty's post Help Saving MySQL. This is about Development (will Oracle put significant effort into MySQL, actually innovating) Brand ("MySQL" has a huge footprint), the trademark owner can enforce this - there have already been issues with companies offering MySQL related services via Google AdWords not being able to ... http://openquery.com/blog/future-mysql-eu-crunch-time From NY Post: Oracle Leader Blinks - Larry's Olive Branch (to the EU), the NYpost sources apparently say that "what [...] Ellison is proposing is the creation of a firewall between MySQL and the rest of the combined company, and possibly setting up an entirely separate board for the MySQL ... http://openquery.com/blog/movement-oraclesunmysqleu-case The No-SQL tag really lumps together a lot of concepts that are in fact as distinct from eachother as they are from SQL/RDBMS. An object store is not at all similar to Cassandra and Hypertable, which is not at all like an column store. And when looking at BigTable derivatives, it's ... http://openquery.com/blog/sql-nosql Antony is travelling up to Portland for this great event that's about to start Fri evening and going over the weekend. He'll be showing other devs and people more about the OQGRAPH engine, and gathering useful feedback. Open Query is, together with many others (I see Giuseppe, Facebook, Gear6, Google, Infobright, ... http://openquery.com/blog/oqgraph-opensql-camp-2009-portland Antony has done a bit of magic, considerably speeding up inserts. Since the base implementation does not have persistence, insert speed is particularly important. Copying the 2x89,051 edges for the Tree-of-Life example is now near-instant. The delete bug has been fixed. There's a new Maze example in the OQGRAPH trunk on Launchpad, ... http://openquery.com/blog/oqgraph-update-speed-maze-50-packages