I’m evidencing an increase in the planning, confidence & execution for MyISAM to InnoDB migration. How much can a single consultant observe? I agree Oracle should not go to PR based on my experience. But I find that: More companies are now familiar with InnoDB than there used to. More companies are interested in migration [...]
I would like to get the community’s opinion about supporting older (minor) versions of MySQL in open source projects. If I were to develop some open source project, and a bug report came which only applied to MySQL 5.0.51 (but more recent versions worked fine), would I need to fix the code so as to [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]