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About Oracle MySQL and CVE-2016-6662
The issue On 12 September 2016 (three days ago) a MySQL security vulnerability was announced. The CVE id is CVE-2016-6662. There are 3 claims: By setting malloc-lib in the configuration…
Visualizing the MySQL Bug Tide
On the MySQL Bugs website there are some tide stats available. These show rate of bug creation. I’ve put them in a graph: I made these with this IPython Notebook.…
Visualizing the MySQL Bug Tide
On the MySQL Bugs website there are some tide stats available. These show rate of bug creation. I’ve put them in a graph: I made these with this IPython Notebook.…
Applying the Business Source Licensing (BSL)
I believe that Open Source is one of the best ways to develop software. However, as I have written in blogs before, the Open Source model presents challenges to creating…
Applying the Business Source Licensing (BSL)
I believe that Open Source is one of the best ways to develop software. However, as I have written in blogs before, the Open Source model presents challenges to creating…
All Packt MariaDB ebooks on sale
All MariaDB ebooks from Packt (including mine) are only $10 each for a limited time. If you’ve been on the fence about picking up one or two, now is a…
Vaadin video tutorials
Announcing the release of the first 6 videos in the Vaadin Tutorial series.
Math with MySQL
I thought I posted this long ago… oh well…. We all know that math is the fundamental aspect of all life and the common language used around the world if…
Copy & paste based development
A story about the pitfalls of copy and paste development practices.
Re: JSON document fast lookup with MySQL 5.7
This is a response to the JSON document fast lookup with MySQL 5.7 article by Frederic Descamp. It is very easy to also use MySQL Workbench and the new GeoJSON…
Re: JSON document fast lookup with MySQL 5.7
This is a response to the JSON document fast lookup with MySQL 5.7 article by Frederic Descamp. It is very easy to also use MySQL Workbench and the new GeoJSON…
Foundation report for 2015
This is a repost of Otto Kekäläinen’s blog of the MariaDB foundations work in 2015. The mariadb.org website had over one million page views in 2015, a growth of about…
Foundation report for 2015
This is a repost of Otto Kekäläinen’s blog of the MariaDB foundations work in 2015. The mariadb.org website had over one million page views in 2015, a growth of about…
I’ve been copied!
I’m not sure whether to be upset or happy about this. I guess I’m mostly upset. Just last month, an enterprising person in India decided to put up a blog…
Speaking at Percona University, 12 Feb 2015
I’ll be speaking about MariaDB 10.0 and MariaDB 10.1 at Percona University on 12 Feb 2015. The overall theme of the event is “smart data”. Should be a lot of…