The DB2 data movement tool sounds like an excellent way to move stuff from, say, MySQL to DB2. I should see if I can use it to move a MediaWiki database.

Speaking of MediaWiki, I swear I’ll have a patched zip of 1.15 ready any day now.:-)

My buddy Antonio investigated what today’s busy android should use to count electric sheep.

Turns out it’s DB2. Heh.:-)

Looks like the original cofounder of MySQL Inc, Monty Widenius, is forking MySQL. He’s going to try to merge with all the other forks, but I suspect that Oracle will not be interested in merging something they just bought with this particular fork. Especially since it will not support InnoDB, an alternate MySQL engine bought by Oracle some time before they bought regular MySQL.

One of the tables of my MediaWiki installation crashed. When I tried to repair it, I got this less-than-helpful error message. So did the mysqlcheck utility when I SSHed to the server. However, the command has extra options that can be used to repair high levels of corruptions, such as when the MYI is missing.