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To take in effect the change of datadir location, need to modify the AppArmor configuration for MySQL. AppArmor is security software for linux and specifies the file system applications allowed to access. Replace the path of mysql data ...  

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The MySQL developer community has announced "a Milestone release", 5.5.0 of the popular open source, relational database software. The release it says are of beta quality but leaves scope for more frequent subsets releases of tested functionality akin to JBoss and OpenSuse who follow a similar release model. Users are encouraged to test the MySQL Server 5.5.0-m2, code-named "Betony" but are also cautioned that MySQL Server 5.5-M2 isn't...  

ERP seller Nexedi in bid to take database out of Oracle's handsFrench ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Nexedi made a public bid to take over stewardship of the open-source MySQL database from Sun Microsystems, offering a symbolic €1 in return.  

Oracle’s reaching out to customers to defend its acquisition of Sun and its MySQL open source database has spooked alienated MySQL creator Monty Widenius and his spokesman Florian Mueller, both of them enriched by Sun’s billion dollar purchase of MySQL last year, into calling for “open war” between the MySQL community and Oracle. Oracle has accused the European Commission, which is blocking its acquisition of Sun because of MySQL, of twisting...  

Filed under: Utilities, Windows, Freeware Easeus Partition Manager became one of my go-to drive utilities after the first time I used it. They're now offering a hard drive cloning utility, and it's just as handy. Unlike Partition Manager, there's only one version of Todo Backup, and it's totally free to use in any environment. You can clone drives and create images of your partitions all from the comfort of your Windows desktop. Performance...  

Even with all the drama surrounding Oracle's pending acquisition of Sun and critics' concerns about its impact on Oracle's open source database competition, Sun developers are still hard at work on MySQL. One of the fruits of their labors is the recent MySQL 5.5 milestone 2 development release, which introduces many new features to the open source database -- some of which were originally intended for MySQL 6.0.  

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Steve Millidge, founder of C2B2, has just published a nice and illustrated step by step tutorial for securing JBoss JMX console with LDAP and more specifically the OpenDS directory server. Similar steps could be used to secure all the different subsystems in JBoss, as illustrated in this already 2 years old tutorial about JBoss Portal, OpenSSO and OpenDS. Technorati Tags: directory-server, java, JBoss, ldap, opends, opensource, security  

On the 24th of November I attended a talk given by one of of Sun's benchmark specialists , Dimitri Kravtchuk, at the Sun Solution Center of Paris. The talk was simply called MySQL performance, and I was expecting, as many I suppose (the auditorium was packed !) tips and tricks on how to optimize a MySQL database. However I was quite positively surprised since the 3 hours session wasn't just a long list of tricks and “how to's” but...  

joabj writes "While MySQL the subject of much high-profile wrangling between the EU and Oracle (and MySQL creator himself), the MySQL developers have been quietly moving the widely-used database software forward. The new beta version of MySQL, the first publicly available, features such improvements as near-asynchronous replication and more options for partitioning. A new release model has been enacted as well, bequeathing this version the...  

SteelEye Technology Inc., a provider of business continuity and disaster recovery solutions for multi-vendor IT infrastructures, reportedly has formed a sales partnership with EnterpriseDB, a provider of enterprise-class products and services based on PostgreSQL, an advanced open source database.  

NEW YORK, Dec. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- EASEUS, security and storage management software producer, releases the newly updated Windows 7 compatible system backup and disaster recovery freeware: EASEUS Todo Backup 1.1. The new version is completely upgraded for Windows 7 system and hard drive backup. It can be used to back up system state, applications, and settings as well as the hard disk partition.  

SQL Manager for MySQL allows you to quickly and easily create and edit all database objects in MySQL, visually design databases MySQL, run scripts SQL, import and export the database MySQL, manage users and their privileges, ...  

Of course i'd like to see the crusade of opensource databases continued, but right now there is no reason to believe that mysql as the most important open source database will play a less important role when owned by oracle. ...