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From discussions both at and after the recent MySQL meeting, it seems the way forward for this group, and the UK MySQL community as a whole is to move away from Facebook, develop it's own presence and community, and to fall under the wing of the UK OUG to take advantage of the "official" status it gives us. This also gives us the opportunity for funding and organising events as well as providing venues.
As part of that I'm looking at setting up a dedicated web-presence for the UK MySQL community, as I believe many of the members we lost when we moved off Meetup was due to them not using, or generally not liking Facebook. If you have any suggestions for a platform to use for a community like this, I'm keen to hear it.
There's also likely to be a MySQL stream at the UK OUG conference in Birmingham in November. If anyone has any information, wants information, or would like to be involved, please drop me a line.
A while ago, I'd written a bash script to handle the automated control of a table using the MERGE engine.
Rather than relying on the expire_log_days feature to ensure your replicating master doesn't fill up with obsolete binary logfiles, you can deploy this little SQL script. It's a bit cheeky and dirty, but it works.
Today, Oracle and Sun have announced that they have entered into an agreement such that Oracle now owns Sun in a deal that's worth approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt. So what impact will this have on Sun's Java and MySQL products?