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	<title>Michael &#8220;Monty&#8221; Widenius &#8211; Noise</title>
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		<title>The concepts of forking</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lately there has been a lot of discussion about “hard” or “soft” forks related to MySQL. As someone who has done a successful fork of MySQL, I think this is both confusing and trivialising the concept of forking.In my previous blog,&#160; I did touch a...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Celebrating 15 years of MariaDB</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It is 15 years since the first MariaDB server release of MariaDB 5.1.38 on 29'th of October 2009.MariaDB got its name from my youngest daughter Maria, following the tradition of MySQL, who got its name from my oldest daughter My.The MariaDB project sta...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Upgrading Between Major MariaDB Versions</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 08:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Hello world, I am still alive (even if this blog hasn't been that much alive lately)!There have been way too long since my last blog, so I thought it's time to remedy that and write some updates about what I have been doing with MariaDB latelyI am a b...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Congratulations to Oracle on MySQL 8.0</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Last week, Oracle announced the general availability of MySQL 8.0. This is good news for database users, as it means Oracle is still developing MySQL.


I decide to celebrate the event by doing a quick test of MySQL 8.0. Here follows a step-by-step d...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>MariaDB 10.2 GA released with several advanced features</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2017 22:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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MariaDB
10.2.6 GA is now released.  It's a release where we have concentrated
on adding new advanced features to MariaDB

The most noteworthy ones are:

Windows Functions gives you the ability to do advanced calculation over a sliding window.
Common t...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>MariaDB 10.3-alpha released</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2017 22:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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While most of the MariaDB developers have been working hard on getting MariaDB 10.2 out as GA, a small team, including me, has been working on the next release, MariaDB 10.3.

The theme of MariaDB 10.2 is complex operations, like window functions, com...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Applying the Business Source Licensing (BSL)</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2016/08/16/applying-the-business-source-licensing-bsl/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2016 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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I believe that Open Source is one of the best ways to develop software. However, as I have written in blogs before, the Open Source model presents challenges to creating a software company that has the needed resources to continually invest in product...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Foundation report for 2015</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2016 11:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[
This is a repost of Otto Kekäläinen's blog of the MariaDB foundations work in 2015.

The mariadb.org website had over one million page views in 2015, a growth of about 9% since 2014. Good growth has been visible all over the MariaDB ecosystem and we c...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Foundation report for 2014</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2015 21:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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2014 was a productive year for the MariaDB Foundation.

Here is a list of some of the things MariaDB Foundation employees have
accomplished during 2014:

The 3 full-time MariaDB Foundation developers have worked hard to make MariaDB better:

Some 260 ...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>MariaDB foundation trademark agreement</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 21:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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We have now published the trademark agreement between the MariaDB Corporation (formerly SkySQL) and the MariaDB Foundation. This agreement guarantees that MariaDB Foundation has the rights needed to protect the MariaDB server project!

With this prot...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Why SkySQL becoming MariaDB Corporation will be good for the MariaDB Foundation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 08:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Today SkySQL is changing its name to MariaDB Corporation. This is something that I had both anticipated and I think it's a great step for MariaDB.I wanted here to to share my thoughts on how this change affects the MariaDB community.The short version:...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Logs and more logs, who has time to read them ?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2014 19:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[

While working on some new features in MariaDB 10.1, I noticed that a normal user couldn't disable the slow query log, which I thought was a bit silly.

While implementing and documenting this feature, I noticed that the information about the differen...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>For your eyes only (or Adding better encryption to MariaDB)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2014 18:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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With MariaDB and MySQL we have always taken security seriously.

In MariaDB 10.0 we added roles to make it easier to administrate many users.

MariaDB and MySQL has also many different encryption functions, but what has been neglected in the past is t...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>conference, conferences&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2014 17:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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It's now 3 weeks since the MariaDB &#38; MySQL community day in Santa Clara.

Thanks everyone for coming!

Personally I think it was a success, especially considering the short
time we had to put it together!  11 great speakers and 100+ participants.
...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Scheduled talks for the MariaDB &#038; MySQL community event in Santa Clara</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2014/03/20/scheduled-talks-for-the-mariadb-mysql-community-event-in-santa-clara/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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We have now a great set of talks for the MariaDB &#38; MySQL community event in Santa Clara on 3rd of April!

You can find the current scheduled talks here.

Initially we had a few additional talks by other community members, who however had to cance...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>MariaDB &#038; MySQL community event 2014 in Santa Clara</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2014/03/05/mariadb-mysql-community-event-2014-in-santa-clara/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2014 22:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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I am happy to announce that the MariaDB Foundation is organising a MariaDB &#38; MySQL community event in Santa Clara on Thursday the 3rd of April. The venue is the Hilton Santa Clara hotel, a short walk from the Percona Live 2014 event.

The communit...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The final piece of the puzzle</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2014/02/10/the-final-piece-of-the-puzzle/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[
I just pushed the new CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE syntax into MariaDB 10.0, for the soon to be released 10.0.8-gamma (RC). (Before we had only CREATE OR REPLACE for views)When using the new syntax, the CREATE statement will automatically DROP the old tabl...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>MariaDB Foundation achivements 2012-12 &#8211; 2013-09</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2013/10/01/mariadb-foundation-achivements-2012-12-2013-09/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 20:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[
I recently read some comments that we at the MariaDB Foundation have not been very open about what we are doing.

We are very sorry about this. The problem is not that we are secret about what we are doing, the problem is that not many of us working a...]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>MariaDB and MySQL room at Froscon</title>
		<link>https://noise.getoto.net/2013/08/22/mariadb-and-mysql-room-at-froscon/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael "Monty" Widenius]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Froscon, the German Free Software and Open Source conference, is happening again this weekend in University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg.


This year we have a MariaDB/MySQL room, C 217, where we can meet, discuss and present MariaDB and MySQL ...]]></description>
		
		
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