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BIT and CPU squeezing with Facebook, Tuenti and Andrey – for the die hard experts… The MySQL Client Server Protocol supports two flavours of sending database results to the client send as text and as binary. Unlike the text protocol, … Continue reading →

On monday I gave a presentation at MySQL user group meeting in Hamburg on the team I’m working for: the MySQL Connectors team. The presentation was given in german. Unfortunately about 99.99999% of all PlanetMySQL had no chance to join … Continue reading →

Unsere Duo war im früheren Leben eine Schrotflinte. Der Zylinderkopf zeigt deutliche Spuren von Geschossen. Wahrscheinlich gab es Tage an denen sich Kugellager aus dem Inneren des Motors sich ihren Weg nach draußen gebahnt haben. Die vermeintlichen Fluchthelfer sind der … Continue reading →

While Andrey made good progress with the Connector/OpenOffice.org I wasted my time trying to use OpenSolaris 2008.05 as an OpenOffice.org development platform. OpenSolaris is not on the list of platforms used my the maintainers and developers of OpenOffice.org. Another open … Continue reading →

The german print magazine Technical Review features two MySQL articles in his latest issue 09/2008. Kaj gets interviewed on the question what the future plans of Sun are with regards to MySQL. And I give answers to five technical questions … Continue reading →

A new MySQL product is born. The preview release of MySQL Connector/C++ is available for download at http://downloads.mysql.com/forge/connector_cpp_preview . Connector/C++ is a new database driver to connect C++ applications to the MySQL Server. The preview mimics parts of the JDBC … Continue reading →

PDO_MYSQLND is in the PHP CVS repository at php.net: PDO_MYSQL has been patched (PHP 5.3, PHP 6.0). Try out PDO_MYSQL with the MySQL native driver for PHP (mysqlnd). Its has new features. Since Kaj’s announcement of the MySQL native driver … Continue reading →

I am a member of the monday morning murder association. I murdered bugs. As said earlier, the modification of PDO_MYSQL to support both the MySQL native driver for PHP (mysqlnd) and the MySQL Client Library (AKA libmysql) is progressing. A … Continue reading →

MySQLs multiple-queries feature makes it possible to run two or more SQL commands with one function call: SQL injections made easy. The PDO design is said to be optimized for security. For security reasons PDO has gone the stony road … Continue reading →