Oracle Writes a $1 Billion Check for MySQL
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Despite having revenues of around $70 million to $85 million, MySQL commanded an impressive $1 billion price tag in today's acquisition by database giant Oracle.
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This toolkit contains essential command-line utilities for MySQL, such as a table checksum tool and query profiler. It provides missing features such as checking slaves for data consistency, with emphasis on quality and scriptability.   This release of MySQL Toolkit adds a new tool, fixes some minor bugs and adds new functionality (especially the ability to run as a daemon) to several of the tools.  Download:  http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=189154  Changelog for mysql-deadlock-logger:  2007-09-20: version 1.0.4     * Added --interval, --time, and --daemonize options, and signal handling.    * --askpass did not allow different passwords on --source and --dest.  Changelog for mysql-duplicate-key-checker:  2007-09-20: version 1.1.1     * Exit code wasn't always defined.  Changelog for mysql-query-profiler:  2007-09-20: version 1.1.5     * Documentation didn't specify how queries in FILE are separated.  Changelog for mysql-slave-delay:  2007-09-20: version 1.0.1     * Added a --daemonize option to detach from the shell and run in the background.  Changelog for mysql-slave-restart:  2007-09-20: version 1.0.1     * Added a --daemonize option to detach from the shell and run in the background.  Changelog for mysql-table-checksum:  2007-09-20: version 1.1.15     * The CHECKSUM strategy was always disabled.  Changelog for mysql-visual-explain:  2007-09-20: version 1.0.3     * filesort wasn't applied to the first non-constant table.
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Over on PHPMac.com there's a new article seeking to help you install PHPMyAdmin for MySQL multiuser environments.
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In the first major release of its flagship product in several years, Oracle unveiled 11g on Wednesday. The Redwood Shores, California-based company said that the new database software contains more than 400 features for improving database clustering, data center automation, and workload management.
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Pays $1bn for Web's favourite free database Sun Microsystems is to pay $1bn for open source database developer MySQL.â¦
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InfoWorld - With Sun Microsystems' $1 billion acquisition of open source database vendor MySQL announced Wednesday, Sun gets ownership of a major player in the open source software industry while MySQL gets the backing of a multibillion-dollar, established systems company.
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The auditor was the vice president of a company that received more than $1.2 million in payments.
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Sun Microsystems to plunk down about $1 billion for one of the most successful open-source software companies.
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(InfoWorld) - Developers at open-source player MySQL are hard at work on a project code-named "Merlin", which isÂ designed to make it easier for customers to manage and maintain the company's database software, a source close to MySQL says. Merlin is a server-based database monitoring and advisory service which continually scans a user's database network for any likely system crashes, bottlenecks or security vulnerabilities, the source said. Under development at MySQL for 22 months, Merlin is due to debut late in the fourth quarter of this calendar year or early in the first quarter of 2007. It's unclear whether Merlin contains any third-party software or if MySQL developers have modeled the offering on any existing database monitoring and advisory service. The aim of Merlin is to simplify MySQL database administration for both small to midsize businesses (SMBs) and enterprises. While SMBs often can't afford to employ database administrators (DBAs) to look after their MySQL implementations, larger firms are running into difficulties trying to find sufficient DBAs with specific MySQL skills. Customer demand was a strong factor in the vendor deciding to create Merlin, the source added. In an interview Friday, Marten Mickos, chief executive officer at MySQL, declined to comment on the project. However, he said that one of his company's main focuses in the coming year will be to provide tools and other offerings to make life easier for MySQL DBAs. "Our first wave of users in the '90s were not database developers," Mickos said. "In the twenty-first century, we've been enabling database developers. Now, we're thinking of ways to help DBAs and take care of them." Merlin acts as a "virtual DBA" or "a constant MySQL consultant," the source said, alerting users to potential system issues before they become critical and offering fixes, tips and tuning options to improve the performance of the MySQL database. So far, Merlin has 50-plus database rules that it can check and provide advice on, with the expectation that both MySQL and its customers will build more customized rules in future. Merlin, now being beta-tested at 24 customer sites, will be rolled into the MySQL Network subscription service, the source said.
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An investment approach straight from the Oracle's mouth.
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Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:PHPBuilder.com: Using Ajax with PHP to Create an Interactive Web PageJSLabs Blog:  Top 5 PHP ToolsLorenzo Alberton's Blog: Navigation Through Paragraphs in an ArticleChristopher Jones' Blog: Review: Easy Oracle PHPStoyan Stefanov's Blog: The PEAR bookScott Mattocks' Blog: Crisscott OnForce Client DesktopDevShed: Developing a Form Director ClassDevShed: Creating a Simple Threaded Discussion ForumLeendert Brouwer's Blog: Writing Secure Web Applications with PHPPower Creative Seeks Interactive Developer/Analyst (Louisville, KY)PHP Security Consortium: New Product Launch - PHPSecInfoMarket Day: At A Glance: ASP.net vs. PHPJob Posting: LAMP Developer (PHP/MySQL) (Nashville, TN)Community News: Symfony Turns OneBard Farstad's Blog: Optimizing PHP for Intel based Mac
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Company will report preliminary count of its $8.8B hostile bid for PeopleSoft after 1 am ET. NEW YORK  - Oracle Corp. said it would report preliminary results of its $8.8 billion hostile tender offer
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Gets your retaliation in first In a pre-emptive strike against Oracle, database vendor MySQL has launched its first site-wide license and support package, pricing it the same as a single Oracle CPU database license.â¦
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It turns out that MySQL  has a terrible upper limit on the max MyISAM table size.  It appears that innodb doesn't have this problem.  Jeremy talks about it over on his blog   "When this happens, the first reaction I hear is "You never told me that MySQL has a 4GB limit! What am I going to do?" Amusingly, I usually do describe the limit when I discuss the possibility of using MySQL with various groups--they often forget or underestimate the impact it will have. Putting that aside, the problem is easily fixed, as that page explains. You simply need to run an ALTER TABLE command."  "And you'll need to wait. That ALTER TABLE is going to take some time. Really."  Of course Jeremey warns us that ...
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Christopher Jones talks today on his blog about a bug he's just corrected and integrated into the release of the Oracle Instant Client that lets PHP correctly take advantage of the temporary LOBS functionality.   When PHP is done with the temporary LOB, it needs to tell Oracle to destroy it. If this isn't done, then the temporary LOB will hang around using DB space until the connection is closed. I just merged a fix worked on by Krishna Mohan and myself for bug 43497.   Example code is included showing two instances of its use - a normal use that frees the memory correctly and the other showing how to create the temporary lob to hold the data as needed.
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By Ryan Blitstein, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 19--Oracle reported record first quarter revenues and earnings  Tuesday, with its net income rising 29 percent to $670 million during the  fiscal first quarter of 2007.
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The business software maker hopes to prod rival Oracle into raising its current bid by $1.5 billion.