This Oracle TechCast which comes to us from an “undisclosed location” in Silcon Valley, offers us assurance that Oracle is committed to maintaining the free, open source, GPL’d community edition of MySQL. They have recently released version 5.5 and state that they are hiring within Oracle and will surpass Sun’s investment into the MySQL project. [...]

In trying to do some performance tuning on my zenoss server, I wanted to access the database. It had been quite some time since I initially installed zenoss and I couldn’t recall the password I had assigned.