RE: Help saving MySQL

2009-12-17 Thread Daisley, John (Burton)
I think that letter actually does MySQL a favour as it points out 'MySQL has been used as a pricing lever by Oracle customers' That single factor says Oracle should not be allowed to control MySQL as it would enable Oracle to more easily raise or maintain high prices! For something to be an

Help Save MySQL

2009-12-17 Thread Daisley, John (Burton)
Just wanted to see what people thought about the offer from Nexedi for MySQL http://www.nexedi.com/NXD-MySQL.Takeover/view They obviously have more reason to protect and develop MySQL but are they serious? 1€ for a profitable business unit with a turnover of around $100m. If that’s what the

RE: Help saving MySQL

2009-12-17 Thread Daisley, John (Burton)
I see some of your point Martin but I think the eu would look at that letter and see the author is stating 'MySQL has been used as a pricing lever'. That single factor should be enough for them to be very concerned by an acquisition as removing an effective pricing lever from the market by

RE: mysql server optimization

2009-12-15 Thread Daisley, John (Burton)
I'm fairly sure that the longblob column will prevent MySQL from being able to use 'in memory temp tables' regardless of whether it is included in the SELECT. In an ideal world I would move that longblob to a separate table. How big are the tables fdata,ftype,fgroup? Can you post the results of

RE: mysql server optimization

2009-12-15 Thread Daisley, John (Burton)
Of TianJing Sent: 15 December 2009 12:43 To: Daisley, John (Burton) Cc: mysql@lists.mysql.com Subject: Re: mysql server optimization yes,you are right,the longblob is already move to a separate table fdna,it is about 10Gb/database the fdata is about 30Gb/database ,the fgroup is about 10Gb