Lenz Grimmer's blog

While being subscribed to the full blogs.sun.com feed certainly feels like drinking water from a firehose, every once in a while I stumble over very well-written and useful articles about MySQL. Below is a collection of helpful posts, especially if you run MySQL on Solaris (surprise!). And while I still am an avid Linux user, I must admit that Solaris has a few neat features - particularly DTrace and ZFS are quite intriguing. If only userland would not feel so weird for someone coming from a GNU/Linux background!

From Jenny Chen's blog:

• DTrace Integration with MySQL 5.0 - Chime demo
• MySQL Innodb Performance Tuning For Disk-Bound Workloads On CMT Servers
• Installation and Configuration Sun Cluster Data Service For MySQL
• DTrace Probes In MySQL
• Connect/J and MySQL's Tuning Tips in SpecjAppserver2004

 From Ritu Kamboj's blog:

• MySQL Benchmark UltraSPARC T2 beats Xeon on Consolidation of OLTP & Web
• Optimal Sun Studio compiler options for MySQL
• How to configure MySQL to run with Solaris Management Facility (SMF)
• MySQL Cluster installation
• Generating trace files for MySQL

 From Krish Shankar's Blog:

• Deployment and Failover Study of HA MySQL on a Solaris Cluster
• Sun Studio Compiler Options for MySQL on Solaris 10 x64 OS : Performance Study
• Sun Studio Compiler Options for MySQL on Solaris 10 SPARC OS : Performance Study

 More to come in the near future!

KAs during last year's MySQL Conference, we invited Julian Cash to take pictures of some attendees. I managed to get my picture taken in last second - the hotel staff was already complaining that they need to redecorate the room for the next event...

The results of this foto session are now on Julian's photo stream on Flickr - I am really impressed by the results! This puts a whole new meaning to the term "MySQL Luminaries"

Kaj's pictures are pretty funny, too - is this an interpretation of "MySQL Community" vs. "MySQL Enterprise"?