I have just completed my presentation at the MySQL Conference 2007 on [MySQL for Oracle DBAs and Developers][1].
Not mentioned in my slides, but referenced during the presentation was what I consider the most important page to document from the MySQL Manual — 5.2.1. Option and Variable Reference
You can download a PDF copy of my presentation here. 
Synthetic benchmarks have their place, but I have always preferred working with real data. Not client production data — that stays private — but publicly available datasets that reflect the messy shapes, skewed distributions, and indexing challenges you encounter in the wild.
Read moreI recently had the pleasure of presenting Planning your upgrade to MySQL 9.7 at COSCUP 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan. COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters) is one of the largest open source conferences in Asia, and the community there is always engaged and technically sharp.
Read moreI have just returned from my first DataEngBytes conference in Sydney. Here is a quick summary on my thoughts for the event. I plan to go into more detail on great points from presentations in later posts.
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