After seeing quite some SQL statements over the years, something is bugging me: there is no consistent convention as for how to write an SQL query.
I’m going to leave formatting, upper/lower-case issues aside, and discuss a small part of the SQL syntax: table aliases. Looking at three different queries, I will describe what I find [...]
Though most probably I won’t be there in person, here’s what I expect to hear from Edward Screven, Oracle, on the State of the Dolphin keynote, coming MySQL Conference & Expo.
I’m under the assumption that no shocking news are delivered. That is, that for the near future, it’s business as usual for MySQL.
Last year’s great [...]
I like milestone based release models.
The advantages I find in this model are in particular beneficial for MySQL. What I find good about this model are:
Things are unstable for shorter periods. Even if some feature is not full stable in some milestone, the model encourages that such a feature is fixed on higher priority.
It is [...]
This is just something that I realized this morning. There were some talks about how the “MySQL Users Conference & Expo” was renamed to “MySQL Conference & Expo” – thereby omitting the “Users” part. The talk was something like “So where are we, the users, in this story?”
But what I’ve just recalled was a discussion [...]