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Hopper for MySQL, beta 1 released
Hopper for MySQL, beta 1 released Upscene Productions is proud to announce the first public beta of our new product: "Hopper", a Stored Code Debugger for MySQL. "After consulting with MySQL users and explaining the idea for Hopper,", says Martijn Tonies, founder of Upscene Productions. "it was clear to us that people would like to have a debugging tool for stored routines. This wasn't long ago and after releasing a Firebird and InterBase version of Hopper, we're now here to release a MySQL Edition. Eventually, debugging stored routines will be part of Database Workbenchas well." The beta is available now for MySQL, first "final versions" for InterBase and Firebird have been released earlier this month. Do note this is a BETA version, please try as much code as you can and let us know the results! More information available at the Hopper page, download your copy today via our downloads page, pricing information is available.
Log Buffer #273, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Glamour from across the world is sparkling in the South of France, but even that has failed to eclipsed the vivid aura of the database blogs from the realms of Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server. This Log Buffer Edition in Log Buffer #273 covers this glamorous gala of innovation. Oracle: Jonathan Lewis blogs about subquery [...]
There is a story….
I have a friend who is fond of telling a story from way back in November 2008 at the OpenSQL camp in Charlottesville, Virgina. This was relatively shortly after we had announced to the public that we’d started something called Drizzle (we did that at OSCON) and was even closer to the date I started working on Drizzle full time (which was November 1st). Compared to what it is now, the Drizzle code base was in its infancy. One of the things we hadn’t yet sorted out was the rewrite of the replication code. So, I had my laptop plugged into a projector, and somebody suggested opening up some random source file… so I did. It was a bit of the replication code that we’d inherited from MySQL. Immediately we spotted a bug. In fact, between myself and Brian I think we worked out that none of the error handling in this code path ever even remotely worked. Fast forward a bunch of years, and recently I had open part of the replication code in MySQL 5.5 and (again) instantly spotted a bug. Well.. the code is correct in 2 out of 3 situations… It is rather impressive that the MySQL Replication team has managed to add the features they have in MySQL 5.6. I’m also really happy with what we managed to do inside Drizzle for replication. Ripping out all the MySQL legacy code was a big step to take, and for a while it seemed like possibly the wrong one - but ultimately, it was incredibly the right thing to do. I love going and looking at the Drizzle replication code. I simply love it.
MariaDB 5.5 has deprecated PBXT
One of the things we (Team MariaDB) talked quite a bit about since we released was PBXT. It was a feature differentiation to MySQL as we shipped another storage engine. It was included in MariaDB 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3; however with our release of MariaDB 5.5, PBXT (docs in the Knowledgebase) has been deprecated and not built by default any longer. The reason behind it is clear: PBXT is currently not under active development. We still include it in the source releases and if you would like to use it, you just have to build it. If and when development around it comes back to an active state with bugs being fixed and the engine being pushed forward, I’m sure we’ll start building it again. In the meantime, much thanks to Paul McCullagh for developing a great transactional engine. Related posts:VirtualBox images for MariaDB Recently in MariaDB #1 Plugins & Storage Engines Summit for MySQL/MariaDB
Announcing Percona Server 5.1.63-13.4
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.63-13.4 on May 24th, 2012 (Downloads are available from Percona Server 5.1.63-13.4 downloads and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.63, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.63-13.4 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the 5.1.63-13.4 milestone at Launchpad. Bugs fixed: Building Percona Server with the Clang compiler resulted in a compiler error. Bug fixed#997496 (Alexey Kopytov).