Category: mysql
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Oracle buying Sun
Stunning news today that Oracle has offered to buy Sun Microsystems. This is sending the MySQL community reeling, as they begin their MySQL Conference & Expo today. Everyone’s talking about whether this change is good for MySQL. My first thought is: it’s not over till it’s over. These deals have a way of falling through…
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I hate IBM System i
In his blog, Vadim reports that a new storage pluggable engine for MySQL has appeared in the source tree, to support IBM DB2 for i as a back-end. This reminds me that I hate the IBM System i platform (aka IBM Power Systems, aka iSeries, aka AS/400). Don’t get me wrong — I’m sure it’s…
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The Next-Gen Databases
A user recently asked: I’m learning traditional Relational Databases (with PostgreSQL) and doing some research I’ve come across some new types of databases. CouchDB, Drizzle, and Scalaris to name a few, what is going to be the next database technologies to deal with? SQL is a language for querying and manipulating relational databases. SQL is…
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SQL Antipatterns Tutorial at the MySQL Conf & Expo 2009
My tutorial proposal was accepted, so I’ll be speaking April 20 at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 in Santa Clara. My tutorial is “SQL Antipatterns Strike Back.” SQL Antipatterns are frequent blunders committed by software developers, both novice and expert. I gave a similar tutorial last year, and I think it was well-received. I’m…
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Enough is enough, PlanetMySQL
Lately planetmysql.com has shown an increasing amount of commercial promotion for Sun products. Many recent articles included in this supposedly MySQL-related feed aggregator have nothing to do with MySQL. Now I see an article included in the feed from ComputerWorld, about database researcher David Dewitt getting a job at Microsoft. Not only is this non-MySQL-related…
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Building MySQL from Bazaar
I wanted to try using MySQL source from its new VCS, Bazaar, and I saw Daniel Fischer’s extremely helpful post “Getting started with Bazaar for MySQL code“. Thanks Daniel! Downloading using Bazaar is indeed slow, as Daniel warns. I am constrained to 1MBps ADSL, and the intial download took quite a bit of time. I…
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ActiveRecord does not suck
I’ve been reading a few blog postings such as Kore Nordmann’s ActiveRecord sucks and Mike Seth’s ActiveRecord sucks, but Kore Nordmann is wrong. ActiveRecord is fine. It is a tool that does just what it’s designed to do. What sucks is when developers try to make it do other things than what it’s intended to do. I…
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SQL Antipatterns slides
Monday I gave a presentation at the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara. I uploaded my presentation materials as a PDF to my website. It’s available under the Creative Commons 2.0 license for non-commercial, no derivative use. Download the PDF at http://www.karwin.com/downloads/SQL_Antipatterns_MySQLUC2008.pdf
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Speaking at the MySQL Conference
It’s time for the 2008 MySQL Conference. This year should be especially interesting. Sun announced they would acquire MySQL on Jan. 16 – fewer than eight weeks ago (I bet it doesn’t seem that way to the folks involved). The deal was closed only Feb. 26, and I’m sure there are still months of work…
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“Pure” mysqlnd interface feedback
After I posted my idea about a pure PHP mysqlnd driver, I received an email from Ulf Wendel from the MySQL AB team who works on the mysqlnd driver. He told me I could post his comments since he doesn’t have a Blogger account. I’ll include his comments below in blockquotes and then I’ll comment…