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The admission I'm about to make will likely cause me to lose some friends/colleagues in the open source world, but I have to be honest: I like using Microsoft Windows. Except for Windows 3.0-3.1, I always have. Further, I personally much prefer managing databases on Windows than Unix and will also give Windows the nod over Linux in certain areas. See, I came from managing DB2 on the mainframe to running data warehouses with Teradata on their proprietary platform, and then did a long run with Oracle on UNIX (AIX and HPUX).
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Jan Kneschke works for the MySQL Development Team and is the author of the very popular lighttpd web server. I recently had the opportunity to ask him a few questions about himself and his work.
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There is a popular myth about the SQL GROUP BY clause. The myth holds that 'standard SQL' requires columns referenced in the SELECT list of a query to also appear in the GROUP BY clause, unless these columns appear exclusively in an aggregated expression. MySQL is often accused of violating this standard.
In this article I will attempt to debunk this myth, and to provide a more balanced view regarding MySQL's treatment of GROUP BY at the same time.
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The value of timely information regarding maintenance releases, including
specific information of what bugs have been fixed and when and where to get
the upgrade, proves very compelling for those DBAs and developers with
little to no bandwidth. The good news is MySQL Enterprise takes the
guesswork out of deciding which version of the MySQL server you should be
running by providing regularly scheduled Monthly Updates and quarterly
Service Packs for the Enterprise Server.
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Robin Schumacher recently gave us an excellent rundown on sessions at
the upcoming MySQL Conference and
Expo (April 23-26th in Santa Clara)
for DBAs. As a proud developer I wanted to make sure that our enormous
developer community had a similar guide. Now, developers will encounter
the same problem that Robin pointed out: with so many excellent
sessions, you'll be required to make some difficult choices sometimes in
what sessions you attend. This guide will hopefully allow you to
navigate the waters. I've broken the guide down into a general section
and also into programming language specific sections.
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