Archive for the 'MySQL' Category

Sessions I am Looking Forward to This Year

Tuesday, April 10th, 2007

This year I am looking forward to the MySQL Conference mostly because I get to hook up with old friends and co-workers, but of course I also plan to sit in on a few sessions:

MySQL Sandalcamp: A Relaxed Intro to MySQL - Because Zak is a great speaker.
MySQL at Digg.com - Because I like to […]

Leave it to the Webyogs…

Monday, February 19th, 2007

The guys at Webyog have been great for producing a solid alternative to the GUI tools developed in-house by MySQL and I like meeting up with them each year at the MySQL Conference to see what they have been working on. Last year it was the release of their product as Open Source, this year […]

Speaking at the 2007 MySQL Conference

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

I just got word today that I will be speaking at the 2007 MySQL Conference.
I’ll be doing a three hour tutorial version of my popular 2006 session on Managing Data Hierarchies (strangely they backdated my title in last year’s session listing; I was a Technical Writer for MySQL AB at the time).
This year session I […]

I’ve Loving It, and You Can Too!

Friday, December 8th, 2006

Ok, so the help wanted slogan on a McDonald’s seems ironically bogus, but here at my new job it really applies. I’m coming up on six months with OmniTI and really enjoy my job. Good pay working for good people, who happen to be looking for even more good people.
There are currently openings for the […]

The Most Evil Thing I Can Think Of

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Ok, here’s an evil idea for you. Say Oracle wanted to hurt MySQL financially but still look like a community player.
Simply take the Oracle Linux move and extend it to an Oracle Managed fork of the MySQL GPL code. Keep the APIs for storage engines and development and throw developers at improving the internals […]

Halfway Back

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

I’m halfway to restoring all the articles at VBMySQL.com. I’ve been able to clear up some typos and errors along the way while using the experience to come up with ideas for sessions at the next MySQL UC.
I’m thinking of a session to follow up my well-attended session on Managing Hierarchies in MySQL from last […]

MySQL and Crystal Reports

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

A common problem MySQL users have with Crystal Reports 9 is the inability to browse tables and fields. While you can define a MySQL DSN, when you open it in Crystal Reports 9 you have no tables or fields in the field browser. This of course makes it very difficult to create a report.
Up until […]

The Fun Never Ends

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

So what happened? Well, two days ago I noticed connection issues while trying to create a blog post on MySQL’s new enterprise offering (more on that later). I sent in a support request to Tera-Byte, my colocation provider. After a while I checked and noticed that I could connect via SSH, but that the server […]