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OTN Interview about MySQL

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I was interviewed by Justin Kestelyn the OTN Senior Director about MySQL at Oracle Open World this week.

Some highlights of the questions asked:

  • 0:55 Since the close of acquisition has there been any change in direction?
  • 2:23 How have your clients and customers responded to the acquisition?
  • 3:53 You mentioned that Oracle will bring added advantages and could infuse invocation.
  • 5:15 InnoDB and MySQL are now both owned by Oracle. What do you see as the development advantages?
  • 6:47 What were your thoughts on the first MySQL Sunday?
  • 8:58 Forks?
  • 11:04 Contact Details

You can view the Video online or play below.

2011 MySQL Conferences

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Next year will mark a significant change for the MySQL community. At least three major conferences will have dedicated MySQL content that is great for attendees getting the best information on how to use MySQL from the experts in the field.

O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo

The 9th Annual MySQL conference will be held at is usual home of recent years. Colin will again be back as committee chair for a 3rd year and this will be my 6th straight MySQL conference.

Date: April 11 – 14, 2011
Location: Hyatt Regency, Santa Clara, California
Website: There is no website at this time
Call for Papers: There are no details for call for papers
Program Chairs: Colin Charles from Monty Program AB and Brian Aker.

Collaborate 11

Collaborate is a larger conference (4,000-5,000 attendees) that is actually three separate conferences in one run by the IOUG, OAUG and Quest. The IOUG content is generally a focus for Oracle DBA’s. Last year marked the first year with any MySQL sessions, and this year Collaborate will have dedicated MySQL tracks chaired by fellow ACE director Sheeri Cabral who is well known for her work in the MySQL community.

Date: April 10 – 14, 2011
Location: Orange County Convention Center West, Orlando, Florida
Website: http://collaborate11.ioug.org/
Call for Papers: Now open. Closes Friday October 1, 2010
Program Chair: Sheeri Cabral

KScope 11

ODTUG Kaleidoscope (Kscope for short) is a conference (1500 attendees) that is very focused on delivering the best content from the top community contributors for the communities benefit. 2010 was my first Kaleidoscope conference and I felt completely at home. Great people, great events and the best conference food I’ve had in many years.

With a dedicated MySQL track in 2010 for the first time I will again be the MySQL Program Chair in 2011 with an extended format for the MySQL developer and DBA. The focus will be the best way to develop successful applications with MySQL and will include Architecture, Performance Tuning, Best Practices, Case Studies and Hands-On streams.

Date: June 26 – 30, 2011
Website: http://kscope11.com
Location: Long Beach, California
Call for Papers: Closes Tuesday October 26, 2010
Program Chair: Ronald Bradford – Independent Consultant

Recap

2010 is also not over. MySQL Sunday at OOW promises to be a great event in San Francisco in under 2 weeks. You can still register at a very cheap price of $75 for 4 dedicated tracks of MySQL content. Open SQL Camp being organized also by Sheeri in Boston in October will continue the tradition of a small but focused and free event for the MySQL community.

Upcoming MySQL Conferences

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Unlike previous years when the number of conferences with MySQL content diminishes after the O’Reilly MySQL and OSCON conferences (Open SQL Camp excluded), this year has a lot on offer.

This month:

Upcoming next month in September:

  • MySQL Sunday at Oracle Open World on September 18 in San Francisco includes 4 tracks and around 15 quality speakers. (Big numbers of attendees also rumored but yet unconfirmed).
  • The inaugural Surge Scalability conference in Baltimore will include presentations by myself and Baron Schwartz (Percona being sponsors) as well as talks from other popular sites using MySQL.

If your in SF for the MySQL Sunday you may also want to come for the SF MySQL Meetup on the preceeding Thursday night where I’ll be giving my talk on “Common MySQL Scalability problems, and how to fix them”.

In October:

  • Open SQL Camp in Boston from Friday, Oct 15th in the evening, ending Sunday Oct 17th

Europeans will be busy in November where you will find dedicated MySQL tracks with multiple speakers at DOAG and UKOUG. Other MySQL talks can be found at SAPO Codebits 2010 and BGOUG.

And for South America, stay tuned. October will be your month!

There is also a great event calendar maintained by the MySQL community team on the Forge.

Speaking at Oracle Open World 2010

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I will be one of 18 MySQL speakers at Oracle Open World 2010 at the first ever MySQL Sunday. With a great diversity of technical, community and product talks this will be a great opportunity to get a cross section of MySQL content. Combined with Java One, this year’s Oracle Open World will include a lot more opportunity of technical and developer content then the more regular marketing material.

As the program chair for the first dedicated MySQL track at last month’s ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 our MySQL community now includes a larger number of target people. From the Oracle community come many highly technical and skilled resources, some with an understanding or appreciation of MySQL and many that are new to MySQL.

This is a great opportunity to share our knowledge and experience with MySQL.

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