Databases
Come and get a t-shirt at UC2008
Here I am at my desk sporting the PrimeBase supporters t-shirt that will be available at the exhibitors booth at the 2008 MySQL Conference . The front is rather uneventful with the official logo, but the back will be worth the experience.
Read moreA day with Paul McCullagh – Architect of PBXT and BlobStreaming
Continuing on from my lightning visits with Jan Kneschke and Michael Zinner , today I got to spend a day with Paul McCullagh at his home in Hamburg Germany .
Read moreLimiting your result set, but getting count of all rows
In reviewing some of my notes I thought it was relevant to ensure this small MySQL gem is documented for my history purposes. Historically I’ve seen people do a complex SELECT statement twice, first to get a COUNT(*) and then to retrieve the data, perhaps in a paginated format.
Read moreOpen Source Database Alternative – Ingres
On several occasions this year I’ve been prompted to mention in conversation Ingres as an alternative Open Source Database. Jonathan Levin in A list of Open-Source Alternatives to Business Applications was the latest example where Ingres was not mentioned and perhaps it should have been.
Read moreJust what are MySQL 9.x features?
Top marks to Jay Pipes for getting the Forge 2.0 finally out after quite some time, as well as in the midst of the MySQL Conference he is organizing. I am worried however about some of the content, as shown in the screenshot below, the opening page lists Worklog tasks/features for versions 6.
Read moreWhat I love about the MySQL Community
The people, plain and simple. I encourage you, if you are not part of the local MySQL community, then why not? Find a local MySQL Meetup group , attend the MySQL Conference , get online to IRC @ freenode#mysql, subscribe to some lists or read the forums .
Read moreMy Motivation for MySQL Camp III proposal
I wanted to follow up my earlier post My Ideas for MySQL Camp III with some of motivations. Luckily, good friend and colleague Jeremy literally took all of 15 mins to respond to my post with “So, I see your vision for the event itself.
Read moreCompanies speaking at UC2008
The Conference Speakers of the 2008 MySQL Conference provides some common and interesting names of companies not common in MySQL circles such as eBay, Microsoft Corporation, HP, Symantec. I see speakers outside of MySQL from countries including USA, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Japan and Australia.
Read moreA day with Michael Zinner – Architect of MySQL Workbench
Following A day with Jan Kneschke – Architect of MySQL Proxy , today I’m with Michael Zinner in Vienna, Austria . Michael is Team Lead of the MySQL GUI tools team at MySQL.
Read moreSpeaking at OSCON
I’ve been accepted to speak at the upcoming 2008 OSCON Conference in Portland Oregon July 21-25 2008, where I’ll be speaking with Giuseppe Maxia on MySQL Proxy . I haven’t seen a schedule yet, so I’m interested if there are any other presenters on MySQL topics!
Read moreUpcoming 2008 MySQL Conference
It’s just three weeks now before the 2008 MySQL Conference . Good to see my mug shot on the front page (see screen shot below). I will still be presenting my session Top 20 DB Design Tips Every Architect Needs to Know , however as a departing MySQL Employee I’ve had to give up the chance to present the “MySQL for Oracle DBA’s Bootcamp” tutorial, content that I developed for MySQL specifically and have already presented three one day seminars in New York, San Francisco and Washington DC.
Read moreChoosing a future MySQL career path
In the past few months I’ve not had to look for a job, they look for me. If your a well qualified MySQL DBA there are many opportunities, I’ve had so many of these offers in the past 12 months I’ve lost count.
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