Now is your chance to discover MySQL Enterprise, including the new MySQL Network Monitoring and Advisory services. You have probably never seen anything like this before! (R)

(Jeremy Cole) If you’re a frequent reader, you might have noticed that I’m on a roll contributing MySQL patches by now… there are many more to come. This is part of the reason that I founded Proven Scaling — to be able to spend my time solving interesting problems and making MySQL better. So what ab

(Baron Schwartz) MySQL provides some tools to monitor and troubleshoot a MySQL server, but they don’t always suit a MySQL developer or administrator’s common needs, or may not work in some scenarios, such as remote or over-the-web monitoring. Fortunately, the MySQL community has created a variety of

(Kris Hadlock) RSS has become the standard technology for syndicating information to large audiences. Many people have something to say, but its finding the right audience for your voice that matters. A great place to start is by creating your own RSS feed and adding to it as often as you can.

(Joe ‘Zonker’ Brockmeier) Yet another company is moving toward an enterprise/open source split. Last week MySQL AB announced that it would offer two distinct versions of MySQL: the MySQL Enterprise release for paying customers, and MySQL Community Server for open source users. What does that mean fo

(Barbara Darrow) Open-source database fave MySQL will soon offer a service to take some of the load off of weary database administrators or DBAs.

Testing, testing, testing. IT pros have been checking out the new MySQL 5.0 open source database since its recent release its commercial parent, MySQL AB. Some of those IT pros put our resident MySQL expert, Mike Hillyer, to the test, too. In this tip, he answers users’ questions about the ins and o

(Rikki Kirzner) Open source software is playing an increasingly significant role in the enterprise, however, the adoption of open source application servers has been slow.

(Ian Gilfillan) In spite of the dominance of English for business purposes, we still live in a multilingual world. At some point, most serious MySQL developers and DBA’s will come across the need to store data from other languages and these may require other character sets or collations.

(Jacques Noah) In this part of the series we will be writing the administration of the blog. The idea is to give the owner of the blog the ability to manage the blog by being able to remove users and articles as required, or to alter the status of users by upgrading them to admin status or banning t