MySQL Camp II – Introductions

We have started MySQL Camp II . The first session is Introductions.

I didn’t catch all the employers, but here is part of the list of attendees at the Introduction section. Great to see multiple people from many places including ESPN , priceline.com , Proven Scaling , Solid Tech – sponsors of Dorsal Source , ForSaleByOwner . fontshop.com , 9Mmedia , CafeMom , JP Morgan , Upoc , ClubMom , Stock Photo Finder , AmieStreet ,LogicWorks , Skoll – Distributed Continuous QA , AOL , Minggl , Minggl New Test Site , Visibone . Others include OnlineBuddies.com, NT Snort User Group, DreamweaverNY User Group, A law firm. As well as a few people from MySQL .

Many people mentioned having an Oracle background, or working with Oracle now, at least 6 people that heard me speak at “MySQL DBABootcamp for the Oracle DBA” last week.

There were a lot of MySQL Beginners here which was really great.

And now we are onto the discussion of the sessions.

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