admin on August 27th, 2007

 
Solid has released 5.0.45-0077. New features include full support for prefix indexes and support for multiple NULLs on unique indexes. This release also has a number of bug fixes. For the full detailed list of bug fixes and enhancements, please see the ChangeLog. Check it out at http://dev.soliddb.com/download

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Jonathan on August 9th, 2007

By now, word has gotten around that MySQL has made some more changes to their process around MySQL Community Server. The changes primarily focus on:

acceptance of community contributions (5.0 and 5.1 are now locked for contributions, so any contributions won’t be available until 5.2 or later)
release schedule of community server (”Mature GA”, meaning 5.0, [...]

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Jonathan on July 24th, 2007

A few of us from Solid are up in Portland at OSCON. We’ll be showing off a new prototype of our high availability (HA) option for solidDB for MySQL. The HA option allows solidDB for MySQL to act in a hot-standby configuration where there is a primary and secondary server. The data in [...]

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admin on June 15th, 2007

Solid has released 5.0.41-0073. This release has a number of bug fixes and performance improvements. For the full detailed list of bug fixes and enhancements, please see the ChangeLog.
This is the “collation” release! 5.0.41-0073 supports the UTF8 and UCS2 character sets. In particular, the following collations have been added: {utf8,ucs2}_{bin,general_ci,unicode_ci,swedish_ci}
There is also now full support [...]

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Jonathan on April 24th, 2007

There has been some ongoing discussion since the end of last year about MySQL’s decision to change how often they release binaries for the MySQL Community Edition.
For those that haven’t been paying attention, at the end of last year MySQL decided that they will no longer commit to releasing binaries for all versions and platforms [...]

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Jonathan on April 23rd, 2007

As folks on several MySQL blogs have already noted, Solid will be hosting informal “Meet the Experts” discussion sessions during lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday at the MySQL Users Conference. We at Solid are quite excited to engage with so many smart folks from the community. We’ve initially set the discussion topics to “Migrating from [...]

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Jonathan on March 22nd, 2007

Solid has released 5.0.27-0064. This release has a number of bug fixes and enhancements. For the full detailed list of bug fixes and enhancements, please see the ChangeLog.
Some highlights include:

Obtain version number. You can now see which version of solidDB for MySQL you are running with the “show status” command. In order to not [...]

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Jonathan on February 22nd, 2007

Solid has released 5.0.27-0059. It is primarily a bug fixing release. You can get it from the usual place (http://dev.soliddb.com/download/).

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Jonathan on February 3rd, 2007

Solid has released 5.0.27-0058, which is the first point release after our GA in December. It is primarily a bug fixing release. You can get it from the usual place (http://dev.soliddb.com/download/).

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Jonathan on December 18th, 2006

Happy Chanukah and Merry Christmas to you! Just in time for the holidays, Solid has released the Generally Available version of solidDB for MySQL. Features of the GA release include:

Both pessimistic and optimistic tables can now be specified in create table
Performance enhancements
New configuration parameters
Documentation extended
Online backup supported and documented
New admin command checkpoint now supported and [...]

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