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How does ape transition to man? (or at least coder)
By drinking “Brainiac” at Google of course. All my photos from the Conference Here
Read moreLog Buffer #94: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
April 25th, 2008 – by Ronald Bradford Welcome to the 94th edition of Log Buffer , the weekly review of the database blogsphere. Adding to the list of usual database suspects, I have some more alternative considerations for our readers this week.
Read moreMaking business decisions for the community and the enterprise
I was prompted following a few key words by Marten Mickos at the Sun Dinner on Wednesday evening, and subsequent one on one discussion with Marten, to post my thoughts of some significant news this week announced at the MySQL Conference.
Read moreContinued confusion in MySQL/Sun release policy
In review of some list posts today, I came across the Falcon Preview 6.0.5 downloads available from the MySQL Forge (even that is unclear, but the directory indicates this on the forge).
Read moreMedia Blob Streaming getting a Google boost
The 2008 Google Summer of Code MySQL Projects are now available. MySQL has 14 listed projects, one of the ~190 different Open Source products listed. Unfortunately there is no summary to see the total number of projects being sponsored across all products.
Read moreThe database frontier
Jay’s opening lines regarding the final MySQL Conference keynote speaker was: “I work with a lot of data. I think peta-bytes, maybe exa-bytes”. This was relating to Jacek Becla from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, giving his presentation on “The Science and Fiction of Petascale Analytics”.
Read moreThe top 20 design tips for MySQL Enterprise data architects
The slides from my 2008 MySQL Conference Presentation can be downloaded from here .
Read moreQ: What a MySQL fellow does?
A: Maria, an ACID, MVCC engine that plans to be the default non-transactional and default transactional engine for MySQL. Presently development with a team of 6 people and plans of adding 2-3 developers the work on Maria should see the 1.
Read moreTips from the MySQL Conference
What would be great if people could create a single line (one tip) from each talk and we could aggregate these for an executive summary for tech people. This was prompted from only a few minutes looking in on Baron Shwartz’s EXPLAIN presentation.
Read morePrimeBase PBXT/Blob Streaming BoF – What you missed.
A small but committed group met at 8:30pm to hear more about our the plans from PrimeBase Technologies here at the 2008 MySQL Conference. Our discussion started in true MySQL form.
Read moreScaling Wisdom
The 20 second summary from the Scaling MySQL – Up or Out? from our panel of experts at 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo. Paul Tuckfield from YouTube — The answers to everything is replication, you just have to rephrase the question.
Read moreWhat’s in a new name
Also in the MySQL Press Releases today but dated for tomorrow is Sun Microsystems Announces MySQL 5.1 . I find the wording clearly a new language from my previous understanding — “pending general availability of MySQL™ 5.
Read moreThe next opening keynote – Everything fails, All the Time
Our third keynote this morning was by Dr Werner Vogels – CTO Amazon.com His second question to the audience “How many of you don’t shop at Amazon?” When one or two people raised their hands he commented, “Can I talk to you later.
Read moreStanding room only
At Day 1 of the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo today, our high numbers of attendees (reported at 2,000) have resulted in Standing Room only in a lot of talks. This has got to be excellent PR.
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