At Oracle Open World 2011 there has been a large number of MySQL presentations. You can download the slides of my two presentations at Explaining the MySQL Explain and Improving Performance with Better Indexes.
You can find additional supporting information for these presentations in the Effective MySQL: Optimizing SQL Statements book.
I will be joining a stellar class of speakers at the Insight Out DB Showcase in Tokyo from Oct 19-21, 2011. This event covers several RDBMS technologies including MySQL.
My topics are:
As the top MySQL expert in New York it is great to join the team at Percona for the upcoming Percona Live in New York City on May 26th. As an invited speaker I am joining a select list of expert speakers including Harrison Fisk from Facebook, Kurt von Finck from Monty Program and Monty Taylor from the core Drizzle team.
My presentation will be on Improving Performance with Better Indexes where I will not only show how to apply indexes to improve query performance, but how to apply better indexes and provide even greater performance gains via a great technique known as a covering index.
On Tuesday I will be speaking in New York at the Effective MySQL Meetup group where I will be giving the presentation “MySQL Idiosyncrasies That Bite”. For more information and to register, check out the Meetup Event. There are just 10 seats left.
To promote the upcoming Percona Live event in New York, for attendees to the Meetup there will be a draw for a FREE ticket to the May 26th event.
Effective MySQL New York is the only MySQL group now operating in New York. Please join our group for the latest information and events for the MySQL community.
I was interviewed by Justin Kestelyn the OTN Senior Director about MySQL at Oracle Open World this week.
Some highlights of the questions asked:
You can view the Video online or play below.
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.
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 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
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
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.
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:
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:
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.
We recently held a dedicated MySQL Track at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 conference for 4 days. This is the first of many Oracle events that will begin to include dedicated MySQL content.
If your attending OSCON 2010 in the next few weeks you will see a number of MySQL presentations.
MySQL will be represented at Open World 2010 in September with MySQL Sunday. Giuseppe has created a great one page summary of speakers. This event is described as technical sessions, an un-conference and an fireside chat with Edward Screven. I’ve seen tickets listed at $50 or $75 for the day.
Open SQL Camp will be held in Germany in August, and Boston in October. This is a great FREE event that includes technical content not just on MySQL but other open source databases and data stores.
You will also find dedicated MySQL tracks in Europe at the German Oracle Users Group (DOAG) conference in November and the United Kingdom Oracle Users Group (UKOUG) in November that I am planning on attending.
In 2011 there is already a lineup of events that will all contain multiple tracks of MySQL content.
For the MySQL community the introduction of various large Oracle conferences may be confusing. From my perspective I describe the big three as.
Having just attended Kaleidoscope 2010, and being a relative unknown I left with a great impression of an open, technical and welcoming event. There was a great atmosphere, great events with excellent food for breakfast, lunch and dinner and I now have a long list of new friends. This conference very much reflected being part of a greater extended family, the experience I have enjoyed at previous MySQL conferences. I’ve already committed to being involved next year.
For those in the US the annual MySQL UC is taking place again in April. For those in Europe we have dedicated room for MySQL and MySQL related products/variants/branches at FOSDEM 2010 being held in Brussels, Belgium on 6-7 Feb.
This conference will feature a full day of talks with a format of 20 minutes presentation and 5 minutes Q&A. More information about submissions can be found at Call for Papers for “MySQL and Friends” Developer Room at FOSDEM 2010 now open!
Other references:
Updated
Wednesday January 6th is the last date for submissions. Extension for FOSDEM MySQL
There is a Linked In group I created some time ago but forgot to advertise that is for MySQL Speakers and Presenters.
If you a speaker or presenter of MySQL content, confirm your registration here.
You will need to have a reference to a website confirming you have been a speaker at a MySQL Event such as a User Conference, MySQL Camp or Local MySQL Users Group.
Hopefully overtime we can build a consolidated index at MySQL Forge Presently some pages exist including MySQL Conference & Expo and User Group Presentations but I’m accepting input for a model to have a central page, and link to or upload of presentation. Any input welcome.