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How Do Developers Feel About Java and MySQL 6 Months After the Sun Acquisition?

Overall, there seems to be only a slight amount of confidence in Oracle's stewardship of its recently inherited open source technologies like Java and MySQL. ...

2 replies - 7542 views - 07/13/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Video: Building an Ad Network on Mono, MySQL, MongoDB, and RabbitMQ

Originally, James Avery's .NET ad network was written in C# and ASP.NET MVC, but now he looking at moving it to Mono and MySQL.  The main reason was to run...

0 replies - 5880 views - 06/25/10 by Eric Hagan in Videos

Two Types of MySQL Users

In comments to my previous post I got number number of comments saying if MySQL would not have multiple storage engine interface it would not allow people...

2 replies - 6108 views - 06/25/10 by Peter Zaitsev in News

O/R Broker: A JDBC Framework for Scala (and Java)

With a minimalist API built for common everyday use cases, O/R Broker provides the functionality of a JDBC framework for Scala developers.  Java developers...

0 replies - 9879 views - 06/14/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

HyperSQL - The Sequel

The BSD licensed HyperSQL database (HSQLDB) reached version 2.0 this week.  The "100% Java Database" now supports a wider array of SQL standard...

9 replies - 11219 views - 06/10/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

On Good Instrumentation

In so many cases troubleshooting applications I keep thinking how much more efficient things could be going if only there would be a good instrumentation...

0 replies - 2789 views - 06/04/10 by Peter Zaitsev in News

Can VoltDB (an RDBMS) Outperform a NoSQL?

The NoSQL movement did not come about primarily because people specifically hated SQL, it was born out of a need for better scalability and simplicity in data...

2 replies - 12436 views - 06/02/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

SQLike: SQL-like Querying Engine for JavaScript and ActionScript

A lightweight query engine that can filter arrays in JavaScript using a 'SQL-like' syntax was revealed today by creator Thomas Frank.  Named...

0 replies - 7466 views - 06/01/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Daily Dose - Clang++ Gets a "Boost"

This week, Clang++, the C++ front-end compiler for the LLVM, had its first successful Boost regression test run.  Boost is a collection of open source,...

1 replies - 13458 views - 05/21/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Daily Dose

The Doom of Multiple Storage Engines

One of the big “Selling Points” of MySQL is support for Multiple Storage engines, and from the glance view it is indeed great to provide users with...

2 replies - 4164 views - 05/10/10 by Peter Zaitsev in News

A Few Reasons to Switch to PostgreSQL 9.0

PostgreSQL is widely considered to be the main open source competitor to MySQL.  It's been five years since the release of PostgreSQL 8.0, but this week,...

0 replies - 15902 views - 05/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

NULL Confusion

The SQL database offers a domain-independent NULL value. This is a terrible thing, and should be treated with a depth of respect and fear.Before using...

0 replies - 2683 views - 04/30/10 by Steven Lott in News

MySQL 5.5.4 Breaks Concurrency Barriers

Although some developers are worried about the long term future of MySQL under Oracle, some bloggers are voicing their excitement about the next release -...

0 replies - 6935 views - 04/16/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

How to know if you’re updating Slave you should not ?

When replication runs out of sync first question you often ask is if someone could be writing to the slave. Of course there is read_only setting which is...

0 replies - 1139 views - 04/12/10 by Peter Zaitsev in News

Comparing Red Gate SQL Prompt to SQL Server IntelliSense

Third parties like Red Gate have sold tools that provide IntelliSense functionality for several years now.  Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 now threatens these...

4 replies - 6229 views - 04/05/10 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles