A few months ago I wrote a tool that verified MySQL and Drizzle protocol compatibility, along with testing for all sorts of edge cases. In analyzing protocol command interactions in mysqld, I found that the MySQL server will happily read an infinite amount of data if you exceed the maximum packet size while using a [...] [...more]
On an entirely unrelated note to the MySQL protocol discussions happening yesterday, the MySQL protocol is now the default protocol in Drizzle as of Monday’s tarball (3/15). Drizzle supports a limited version of the MySQL protocol, only supporting the subset of commands Drizzle cares about (no server-side prepared statements, replication, or deprecated commands due to [...] [...more]
SerialTek Adds Linux Support for BusXpert and BusMod SAS and SATA Protocol Development Tools SerialTek, a SAS and SATA protocol test solutions company, announces Linux compatibility for its line of BusXpert SAS/SATA protocol analyzers as well as the BusMod SAS/SATA Error Injector. Read more on PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance [...more]
Over in the blog post High Availability MySQL: Can a Protocol be GPL? Mark Callahan found the following comment in the source file sql/net_serv.c This file is the net layer API for the MySQL client/server protocol, which is a tightly coupled, proprietary protocol owned by MySQL AB. Any re-implementations of this protocol must also be [...] [...more]
How to Set Up IMAP Protocol Email Accounts on the Thunderbird Email Program There are some benefits to setting up IMAP email accounts as opposed to POP protocol accounts on your Thunderbird email program or whatever email program you happening to be using such as Outlook. IMAP allows you the versatility of synching your [...] [...more]
