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Oracle is improving MySQL

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I’ve noticed that a steady and perhaps even growing number of bug reports and feature requests are getting resolved for the next milestone release. I continue to see signs that Oracle’s next release of MySQL will not only include much of the unreleased good work that’s been done over the last few years, but will add a lot of new features and fixes as well.

Written by Xaprb

August 18th, 2010 at 8:50 am

Posted in SQL

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  1. that is good news. I hope they will make it more mature in terms of managebility/profiling/backuping and such.

    Mike

    18 Aug 10 at 11:17 am

  2. Are there any specific changes that you’re pleased with?

    Konstantin

    18 Aug 10 at 11:27 am

  3. In the past couple of days, I have seen a few of my small feature requests closed. As they say, it’s the little things that count. A hundred little improvements make a wonderful difference. I look forward to these being released.

    Xaprb

    18 Aug 10 at 12:45 pm

  4. What are your thoughts on Oracles lawsuit over Google? Even if directly unrelated, I would think that might set a concerning precedent for their open source stance. I have been reserving my judgment there but these actuals shake even my otherwise “meh” opinion on the Oracle acquisition of Sun.

    Unlike Java, MySQL is GPL so I would imagine there is less Oracle can do that a fork won’t fix but I still find their stance on that quite concerning. Their move to nuke Open Solaris, also, concerning.

    Tim Soderstrom

    18 Aug 10 at 4:10 pm

  5. My inbox is full of too many messages from bug and feature request updates. They are getting a lot of things done this year. I look forward to the (hopefully) reduced mutex contention for the table cache courtesy of the MDL changes. I really look forward to fewer compiler warnings.

    Mark Callaghan

    18 Aug 10 at 4:26 pm

  6. I don’t really have an opinion on Oracle’s business decisions. I agree with Mark — we have come a long way to make MySQL work better on large hardware, but there’s still a long way to go, and reducing code debt could help it happen faster.

    Xaprb

    18 Aug 10 at 4:54 pm

  7. An example of the type of change that is getting done now and makes my job easier — http://bugs.mysql.com/53336

    Mark Callaghan

    18 Aug 10 at 6:27 pm

  8. fwiw, java is also gpl.

    henrik

    19 Aug 10 at 7:21 am

  9. Here is another example of a small improvement that I requested which has gotten a commit:
    http://bugs.mysql.com/?id=34750

    There are many like this.

    Xaprb

    26 Aug 10 at 9:03 pm

  10. Just faced problem which I reported 5 ago
    http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=14347

    I still can’t drop Foreign Key :)

    VadimTk

    2 Sep 10 at 1:10 pm

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