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Changing MySQL’s Community Contribution Agreement

A while ago, MySQL developed a Community Contribution Agreement for community contributions to the MySQL source code. While browsing the MySQL Forge Wiki I cam across:

http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Community_Contributions

This page shows that the Community Contribution Agreement has changed -- it is no longer the document MySQL AB created. It is now ...

OOW Video: Gavin Newsome and Ed Begley, Jr. Talk About Being Green

Gavin Newsome, mayor of San Francisco, and Ed Begley, Jr. talk about being green, and commend Oracle and Oracle OpenWorld for being green.

Watch the video online or download the 19 Mb flash video file

Watch the video online or download the 18 Mb flash video file

So, You Want to be an Oracle ACE? Oracle OpenWorld 2008 Presentation

Next week, Dan Norris and I will collaborate on a presentation at Oracle Openworld 2008. Our presentation, entitled So, You Want to be an Oracle ACE?, will be on Monday, 9/22, from 11:30 am - 12:30 pm in Moscone South, room 310 -- that's the very first conference slot.

We've ...

OOW Video: Mary Matalin and James Carville Keynote

To start off the conference, the first keynote at Oracle OpenWorld took a break from technology and veered into the world of politics. The official conference description says:

Washington's best-loved political couple Mary Matalin and James Carville entertain the crowd with a bitingly humorous look at the world of politics.

Indeed, ...

No Official Word Yet on Monty and Sun….

Smithy commented on my blog post about the rumor of Monty leaving Sun with a pointer to an article on ComputerWorld Finland that mentions:

Widenius told to Computerworld Finland on Friday that negotiations are still on.

Meanwhile, Matt Asay, who seems to think Monty actually has left Sun (even though all other ...

Creative SQL: How to Easily SHOW GRANTS for Many Users

Scenario: Someone wants to know which of the over 50 MySQL users have certain privileges.

There are many ways to solve this problem. Some of these scenarios are tedious and repetitious, others take no time at all.

The issue, of course, lies in what the "certain" privileges are. If ...

MySQL Camp, April 2009

Last week Giuseppe Maxia announced the Call for Papers for the 2009 MySQL Users Conference and Expo, and also announced that there would be an unconference, MySQL Camp, organized by me.

It's true! Currently MySQL Camp is set to happen, though I am still working out details with Colin Charles ...

SHOW STATUS WHERE….

Note: This article is about the WHERE extension to SHOW. I specifically use SHOW STATUS as an example, but WHERE is an extension to many SHOW statements.

Often DBAs will assess the health of a system by looking at some of the status variables returned by SHOW GLOBAL STATUS ...

Sheeri’s Sordid Past

I confess -- I have not always been an exclusive MySQL user. I have fooled around with other DBMSs. I was young, inexperienced, and I needed the money, I swear!

This comes about because I was doing some electronic de-crufting....From a file last modified on 10:50 am on 2005-06-30:

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Monty Widenius, One of MySQL’s Founding Fathers, Leaves Sun/MySQL

ValleyWag reports that MySQL's Monty Widenius is no longer "MySQL's". Some folks have known that Monty has not been happy in his current position; this leads me to believe the rumor is true (though of course an official announcement is the only confirmation).

So what does this mean for MySQL? ...