Catching up with Mark Atwood on memcached

I had an opportunity to catch up with Mark Atwood last week to discuss his new role at Gear6 and some of the interesting developments currently going on around memcached, including Gearman integration and its suitability for cloud computing environments.

Free Webinar: Migrating from Microsoft Access to MySQL

Join us for a free webinar tomorrow where we will present the fundamentals of migrating a sample application from Microsoft Access to a MySQL back end. We will be giving the presentation twice, at 14:00 Central for EMEA and 10:00 Pacific for North America. To register, visit here.

Free Webinar: Read/Write Load Balancing w/ Zeus in the Cloud

Raja Srinivasan from Zeus will presenting how to load balance MySQL reads and writes on the Joyent Public Cloud tomorrow in a free webinar taking place at 10 AM Pacific (America). Register here.

Free Webinar: Memcached and MySQL for Rapidly Scaling High Traffic Websites

For those interested in learning "how it gets done", Raj Narayan - Director of Operations at Glam Media will be talking about how they evolved their infrastructure in route to becoming the 2nd fastest growing US-based web property in 2008. MySQL and Memcached proved to be critical pieces of infrastructure and continue to serve nearly half a billion hits per day. This is a free webinar taking place Thursday, November 12, 2009: 10:00 Pacific time (America) hosted by MySQL and Gear6, register here.

Interview with Robin Schumacher Discussing Calpont's InfiniDB

I got a chance to sit down with Calpont's new VP of Products, Robin Schumacher last week to discuss the announcement of their new open source column-oriented database, InfiniDB. To listen to the interview, click on the embedded link below.



Robin has also posted part one of a two part technical article on InfiniDB in the DevZone. You can check out the article here.

You can also get "up close and personal" with InfiniDB when Robin delivers a free webinar on the advantages of column oriented databases for analytics, high performance query systems and data warehousing next month. Register here.

For more info on what Calpont is up to with InfiniDB, check out their community .org site here.

Free Building MySQL on Windows Webinar

MySQL Engineer Iggy Galarza will be presenting how to build MySQL on Windows today in a free webinar at 10 AM Pacific. To register, sign up here.

He'll be covering environment set up, including required software, like Visual Studio, Bison, CMake, Cywgin, Baazar, etc. and take you from source download to finished product.

If you deploy MySQL on Windows and want to get a jump start on building from source to take advantage of the latest patches or to do your own hacking, this webinar is for you.

SSH Tunneling in Workbench 5.2.6 Alpha

Given the announcement earlier this week of an updated release of the actively developed MySQL Workbench 5.2, I thought I'd give it a quick look...

Install on Windows went without a hitch.

One thing I noticed, which I don't remember being previously available in MySQL GUI tools, is the ability to connect to a remote MySQL server via SSH tunneling.

Below is a screen shot:



Well done! A small, but significant addition for folks that require SSH to connect to their systems.

I did notice that the design in Workbench involves selecting "Standard TCP/IP over SSH" from the drop down and then providing credentials in a more "form" oriented layout. An "SSH" tab like we see in Navicat or SQLyog might be more familiar for some folks. (Also, a minor note, no "browse" button next to the "Path to SSH key file" option.)

I know that 5.2 is still in active development, but the functionality in regards to SSH looks good to go...with maybe just a few tweaks to the connections dialog :)