MySQL Leaders Bail Out of Sun Microsystems: Apparently the mySQL acquisition hasn’t gone well for Sun. Most of the executive team from MySQL has bailed. […] the loss of the core MySQL team bodes ill for Sun, which pushes the open source database as an alternative to similar…
MySQL reserves features for paying customers; open-source community up in arms: This is interesting, and perhaps not surprising given the acquisition. Open-source darling MySQL is facing a new uprising within its customer base over plans disclosed this week to reserve some key upcoming features, and their source code,…
Here’s a command line switch for MySQL that’s both funny and pretty handy: --i-am-a-dummy Synonym for option --safe-updates, -U. Yes, there is a MySQL switch called “i-am-a-dummy”. It’s an alias of another switch, which provides more information: --safe-updates Only allow UPDATE and DELETE that uses keys. Now, that’s handy. This…