Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Sun Tinkers with MySQL


Sun said Wednesday that it's got an update to its MySQL Enterprise subscription called MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 that will let DBAs graphically drill down into database bottlenecks to improve application performance.

The widgetry can be had for the moment on a free 30-day trial subscription.

Sometime in the next month it'll go commercial.

MySQL Enterprise pricing ranges from $599 to $4,999 per server per year and is also available through an unlimited site-wide agreement, starting at $40,000 a year.

The European Commission's worries that Oracle will starve MySQL of resources led it to open a full-fledged investigation of Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun last week that threw a monkey wrench into Oracle's takeover schedule.

Oracle wanted the deal to be closed by now. The EC probe could take until mid-January and there are no guarantees it'll pass inspection or that concessions won't be sought.

Anyway, in the meantime, Sun says the graphical enhancements made to the MySQL Enterprise Monitor's Query Analyzer should help DBAs and developers pinpoint database queries better and avoid performance problems.

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