Presentations, Articles, Papers
Ronald's speaking presentations, articles and papers.
Index
2008: · August 2008 · July 2008 · April 2008 · January 2008 ·
2007: · November 2007 · September 2007 · August 2007 · July 2007 · May 2007 · April 2007 ·
2006: · October 2006 · September 2006 · April 2006 · March 2006 · February 2006 ·
August 2008 - New York MySQL Meetup
Best Design Practices for successful MySQL applications - Part A
Levering 9 years of MySQL experience including his recent position as Senior Consultant with MySQL Inc, Ronald provides insight for best design practices using MySQL. With plenty of examples and war stories, learn lessons of what not to do with your MySQL application. The focus of Part A will greatly benefit the Data Architect/DBA and Developer. The discussion will include further points of consideration for managers, VP's and CTO's to ensure your entire application including the database can support your success.
July 2008 - Cloud Computing Panel
Ronald will be one of for speakers at A Free Panel on Cloud Computing where he will speaking on the considerations and approaches of extending existing traditional web applications to leverage Cloud Computing.
July 2008 - OSCON 2008
Ronald will be presenting at OSCON 2008 along with Giuseppe Maxia from Sun Microsystems MySQL Proxy: From Architecture to Implementation.
April 2008 - MySQL Conference 2008
Location: Santa Clara, California
At the 2008 MySQL User Conference, Ronald gave the presentation Top 20 Design Tips Every MySQL Architect Needs to Know.
There are many poorly designed database application in use today. There are several reasons including lack of expertise, or lack of experience in MySQL specifically.
This session will aim to educate an attendee for the top 20 things every database design should have. As a consultant I see these common mistakes regularly, some of which can easily be corrected without any code changes.
Some topics include:
Why is normalization important? When do you optimize your normalized schema? Why NOT NULL is important? Why VARCHAR is bad? Disk = Memory = Performance? MySQL has 9 different Numeric data types, Oracle has 1. Why? Think transactions, think strict data integrity. Leverage the power of covering indexes. Query Cache, friend or enemy.
MySQL Conference Speaker Profile
Video Recording of Presentation by Technocation
January 2008 - Federal DBA Day: MySQL for the Oracle DBA
Location: Washington DC
The Federal DBA day was a consolidated one day presentation to 150 Oracle DBA's from the Federal Government sector in Washington DC on how to install, secure, manage, tune and upgrade MySQL. This presentation is significantly tailored to speak to Oracle DBA's with little to know skills of MySQL, the company, the product and the services.
Ronald has become the primary technical presenter at MySQL AB for Oracle Technical content, leveraging 10 years of experience with the Oracle Database product and also time employed at Oracle Corporation in the 1990s.
The material for this presentation is not available for download. A large number of links to suitable reference material for the Oracle DBA can be found at Learning MySQL as an Oracle DBA.
References
November 2007 - Oracle Open World Exhibitor
Location: Moscone Center, San Francisco, California.
For the first time, MySQL AB was an exhibitor at Oracle Open World 2007. Ronald was one of two MySQL technical experts available to field any inquires or questions from the reported 35,000 Oracle Attendees.
More information can be found at my blog comments.
The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) has released its second major research study focusing on open source adoption trends, "Open Source in the Enterprise: New Software Disrupts the Technology Stack." Conducted for the IOUG by Unisphere Research, the study builds on a similar report issued in mid-2006 covering open source adoption trends in the enterprise stack. The findings point to ongoing interest in open source software solutions for operating systems, databases and middleware with most organizations reporting that they intend to increase their use of open source in general over the coming year.
References
September 2007 - Analyzing MySQL Status and your SQL
Location: MySQL Users Group, New York, New York.
