Reminder: DB Upgrade Tonight

Just a quick reminder that the database will be down tonight for the MySQL upgrade.

There's already a copy of all databases on the new machine... I'm updating the copy right now (looks like it'll take another hour or two), and then will shut down the current box for one final up-to-the-minute update before running the MySQL upgrade routine and bringing the new server live.

Database service will be fully restored by morning.

MySQL upgrade this Saturday Night

I will bring the new database server live this Saturday night, probably around 1am EST (so really very early Sunday morning.)

In addition to the new hardware, I'm upgrading MySQL itself from 4.1 to 5.0.

(If enough people are interested, I'll schedule a further upgrade to 5.1 later on...)

There are some minor backward incompatibilities between 4.1 and 5.0 ... I don't expect these to affect anyone here, but if you're using a lot of hand-coded SQL, you might want to look over the list of changes between 4.1 and 5.0