Category: MySQL

MySQL | 2010-05-13

MySQL Stored Procedures Ain’t All That

I give quite a lot of presentations. A whole lot less than I used to, but still quite a few per year. Most of the time, the presentations are on […]

Drizzle | 2010-05-13

Now Recording Drizzle Contributor Tutorial

Hi all! I was swamped with registrations for the online contributor tutorial for Drizzle, and so I’ve bumped up my account to a DimDim Pro account. This means two things: […]

C/C++ | 2010-03-26

Holy Google Summer of Code, Batman

So, last year, Drizzle participated in the Google Summer of Code under the MySQL project organization. We had four excellent student submissions and myself, Monty Taylor, Eric Day and Stewart […]

C/C++ | 2010-03-17

Understanding Drizzle’s Transaction Log

Today I pushed up the initial patch which adds XA support to Drizzle’s transaction log. So, to give myself a bit of a rest from coding, I’m going to blog […]

All | 2010-03-14

O’Gara Cloud Computing Article Off Base

Maureen O’Gara, self-described as “the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years”, has written an article about Drizzle at Rackspace for one of Sys-con’s online zines called Cloud […]

Drizzle | 2010-03-11

A Follow Up on the SQL Puzzle

Or…What the Heck is Wrong with CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS … SELECT? So, earlier this week, I blogged about an SQL puzzle that had come up in my current […]

All | 2010-03-08

An SQL Puzzle?

Dear Lazy Web, What should the result of the SELECT be below? Assume InnoDB for all storage engines. CREATE TABLE t1 (a INT, b INT); INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (1,1),(1,2); […]