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db4free.net is joining the protest against SOPA & PIPA

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Markus Popp

db4free.net is joining the protest against SOPA & PIPA and will stay down for 24 hours, starting January 18, 2012 at 02:00 UTC. Learn more on what this is all about at americancensorship.org … … and why the WEB GOES … Continue reading →

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5th anniversary working for MySQL

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Markus Popp

On May 17, 2006 – exactly 5 years ago – I started my new job as web developer at MySQL AB. Since then I closed 3,049 web requests, worked with 9 colleagues in the web team, had 4 direct managers, … Continue reading →

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OurSQL Podcasts available at dev.mysql.com

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Markus Popp

Noticed the new navigation item in the MySQL Developer Zone? Sarah Novotny and Sheeri K. Cabral have picked up the OurSQL Podcasts again which were on hiatus for a while (well, they have now been back again for a while … Continue reading →

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MySQL 5.5 published as Generally Available release – and available at db4free.net

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Markus Popp

Today, December 15, 2010, MySQL 5.5.8 was released – and is now generally available. db4free.net has been updated to 5.5.8 GA. Read the Introduction to MySQL 5.5 to find out what’s new and … give it a try!

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New chance for crashed (port 3307) db4free.net server

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Markus Popp

One month ago I set up a new MySQL 5.5 db4free.net server instance, after the old instance started to keep crashing. Since then, the former user database server has run on port 3307 to give people a chance to rescue … Continue reading →

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db4free.net is back again, with MySQL 5.5

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Markus Popp

Disaster struck again. Well, it’s actually not really a disaster. db4free.net is a testing environment and people are not supposed to use it for any important data, or to use it in production. When after the last server update the … Continue reading →

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db4free.net’s 5th birthday

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Markus Popp

To my shame I must admit, I missed it. It happened on June 29, 2005 when db4free.net was first available to the public. At that time it was running MySQL 5.0.7 beta. Quite a lot has happened since then, MySQL … Continue reading →

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db4free.net blog has moved and what’s new

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Markus Popp

It was about time to switch to something new. I finally have my new blog launched at www.mpopp.net which is something that I had planned for quite a while. This new blog is a replacement for my old blog at … Continue reading →

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