MySQL is officially part of Sun

On 16 January 2008, less than six weeks ago, Sun announced their definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB. That "definite agreement" was still subject to government approval in the US, Germany and Austria, and to the signing of the legal transfer documents by MySQL AB's current owners. Those hurdles have now been passed, and the acquisition is thus official. MySQL is part of Sun!
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By Robin Schumacher | April 4, 2008

Performance tuning is one of the top disciplines (if not THE top discipline) that database professionals want to excel at. Being able to take a system that's running sluggish and turn it into one that's running as fast as a scalded dog is a talent that's part art and part science, but whatever the combination necessary to make it happen, there will always be strong demand for folks who are good at it.

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How the MySQL Enterprise Upgrade Advisor Helps DBAs Avoid Being Bitten by Known Bugs

By Rob Young | April 1, 2008

In an earlier article I described how MySQL Enterprise takes the guesswork out of deciding which version of the MySQL server customers should be running by providing alerts around regularly scheduled Monthly Rapid Update and Quarterly Service Pack releases of the Enterprise Server. Being of an old school "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mindset, I understand the conservative approach most DBAs take when deciding if a new release of any software is relevant to their environment. In fact, given the monthly frequency of Enterprise maintenance releases and the work involved with upgrading, I completely understand how recipients can begin to ignore Update Alerts (unless of course a known fix is on the way). Based on feedback from customers, MySQL colleagues, and my own field experience, I recognize that while notifications around the regular Enterprise Server drops is a good thing, upgrading an existing MySQL implementation is no small task and that a major part of removing guesswork around new releases involves helping those receiving notifications better understand how they are affected.

Why you want to be good at data modeling

By Robin Schumacher | March 27, 2008

To be really successful at working with databases, there are many different disciplines to become proficient in - things like disaster recovery, security management, data integration, and more. But there are less than a handful of things you want to be really good at; becoming super-skilled in them will help you enormously in your database career. And believe it or not, one of these key areas is data modeling and its kissing cousin, physical database design.

Reporting MySQL Internals with Information Schema plug-ins

By Roland Bouman | May 1, 2000

Last week, I described how to use the MySQL plug-in API to write a minimal 'Hello world!' information schema plug-in. The main purpose of that plug-in is to illustrate the bare essentials of the MySQL information schema plug-in interface.

MySQL Information Schema Plugins: the best kept secret of MySQL 5.1

By Roland Bouman | February 12, 2008

MySQL 5.1 offers an extremely useful feature called information_schema plugins. This feature allows dynamic runtime loading of a shared library into the MySQL server to implement a table in the information_schema database. The SQL standard (ISO/IEC 9075-11:2003) allows database implementations to extend the information_schema. MySQL 5.1 transfers the possibility to do this directly to privileged database users so they can extend the information_schema themselves, in any way they see fit.

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