MySQL sandbox

At the OpenSQL Camp, I attended a talk by Giuseppe Maxia on MySQL sandbox.

I tried it out, and it's great.

1. Download and unpack the tarball at http://launchpad.net/mysql-sandbox.
2. Obtain a mysql tarball.
3. Run "make-sandbox /path-to-tarball/mysql-X.X.XX-osinfo.tar.gz"
4. Run "start", which starts a mysql server.
   
5. Run "use", which starts a mysql client.
   

Total elapsed time (starting at step 3), 12 seconds.