Oracle og MySQL igjen

2010/02/16

Ken Jacobs har i alle år vært kjent som Dr DBA i Oracle miljøet. I forbindelse med kjøpet av Sun hadde han ansvaret for forholdet til MySQL i overgangsfasen, men skal tydligvis ikke være med videre. Les Matt Asay sin kommentar om Ken Jacobs’ avgang her.

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EU tar seg god tid: Oracles kjøp av SUN

2009/09/08

Matt Assay har et par meget bra analyser av EU sitt forsøk på å gå Oracles kjøp av SUN etter sømmene i hhv EU fiddles with MySQL while Sun burns og The EU’s Christmas gift to Oracle. Essensen er at EU ødelegger for SUN til fordel for HP og IBM. Samtidig spekulerer han om Oracle kan prøve å forhandle ny pris siden SUN gjør det så dårlig mens situasjonen er på vent. Verd å lese.

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ruby and mysql C libraries on the Mac

2008/11/26

Configure ruby for mysql on the Mac

I struggled with this one. First I though the problems were rooted in the MySQL version I was running (5.1.X). I realized finally that I had not provided all the configuration parameters.

My original attempt:

sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql

The output from this command includes:

Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing mysql:
    ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lm... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lz... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lsocket... no
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lnsl... no
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
...

I managed to make it work by changing the command line to:

$ sudo gem install mysql -- \
--with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed mysql-2.7
1 gem installed

PS: The “\” is just a line continuation marker, to make things fit in this post.

PS: This was after downgrading mysql to 5.0.X.

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go Marek!

2008/11/06

It was great to see the latest edtion of SQL Server magazine. dbWatch 8.1 gets a decent review: 4 out of 5 stars. I admit that I am not a neutral observer. As a former employee and (current) shareholder I like to keep tabs on what’s going on with the company.

I strongly recommend checking out dbWatch for database monitoring. If you are too busy to watch fancy reporting screens and would rather get a text message or an email if something needs your attention, this might very well be the tool for you. Contact Marek at dbWatch Software, tell him that Espen sent you.

dbWatch supports Oracle, SQL Server and MySql; all in the same user interface. Sometimes I guess, Java is a good thing . . .

You can check out the review here.

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