This is the 137th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Dave Edwards is enjoying a week off, and so as part of my plot to take over the world, I am writing this week’s Log Buffer. First, the fun stuff: Josh Berkus tells us that the American English Translation of the Mang...

Brian Aker delivers the keynote speech at OpenSQL Camp: State of the Open Source Databases. The presentation begins with a disclaimer: “There is no way I’m going to tell you exactly where the future of databases go. We have way too many egos in the room to ever even begin a discussion...

So, Paul’s blog post pointing to Todd’s blog post got me thinking. The main point Paul summarized was that duplicating data was a great way to scale, and used Todd’s reference to Flickr and how in their partition-by-user scheme, they put a comment in the commenter’s shard as ...

Twitter has had many outages recently. On May 17th, 2008 http://blog.twitter.com/2007/05/devils-in-details.html was posted and says: What went wrong? We checked in code to provide more accurate pagination, to better distribute and optimize our messaging system—basically we just kept tweaking when ...

I understand that MySQL as a company wants to recruit paying customers. However, as a community user I have a hard time finding what I want on the MySQL website. Today’s frustration is brought to you by trying to find the documentation. Go ahead, hit http://www.mysql.com. From there, where do ...

I have already blogged about this keynote at http://www.pythian.com/blogs/948/liveblogging-who-is-the-dick-on-my-site. If you are interested in actually seeing the video, the 286 Mb .wmv file can be downloaded at http://technocation.org/videos/original/mysqlconf2008/2008_04_17_panelDick.wmv and play...

Keith Murphy wrote about the open/closed source debacle and the first comment on that post was: Monty makes all this money from the Sun acquisition, and pretends to be a free software advocate. How much did he make? How much is he giving back to the MySQL community? Now, Keith rightfully met this wi...

Identity 2.0: A world that’s simple, safe and secure. Who is the Dick on My Site? by Dick Hardt (Sxip Identity Corporation) Quotes: “Really, data is about people. It’s really identity data.” “Identity helps you predict behavior.” “Identity is who you are....

Liveblogging: Extending MySQL by Brian “Krow” Aker Brian wins the award for “most frequent great quotes during a talk”. Before MySQL 5.1 a UDF was the only way to extend MySQL. All you need in a UDF is: init() execute() deinit() my_bool id3_parse_init(UDF_INIT *initid UDF_ARG...

Here are my liveblogging notes from MySQL Sandbox: Easily Using Multiple Database Servers in Isolation by Giuseppe Maxia Giuseppe has been a community member since 2001, and in the past year or so, a MySQL Employee. He likes to give things away for free — he gave away T-shirts to the early arr...