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MySQL Camp T-Shirts

For those that attended the MySQL Camp at Google HQ late last year you may have seen me with my own T-Shirt designs. A number of people inquired about getting them.

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MySQL Predictions for 2007

I’m interested to know what people consider will behold MySQL in 2007? The announcement of “You” as Time person of the year can only considered a huge boost to the opportunities in 2007.

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NY Tech Meetup

Tonight I headed to the NY Tech Meetup organized by the CEO of Meetup and co-founder of Fotolog, the company my friend Frank works for. This forum provided for quick presentations by new NY high tech ventures and other interesting discussions, then enabling further networking between people.

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Linux One Liner – vim remove syntax highlighting

From within vi, which is normally vim these days. :syn off That’s bugged me at times and I never knew how to turn it off.

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Pluggable Storage Engines – What is the potential?

I started this post a month ago, but after Kaj’s discussion on the same topic at the MySQL Camp I figured it was time to post. I had dinner with a friend recently (a very smart friend), and our conversation lead him to ask “What’s different with MySQL?

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Zune or zzz?

An interesting article in the local New Jersey paper this week. “Will Microsoft iPod-rival Zune be a ‘zoom’ or more of a ‘zzz’. This is Microsoft’s attempt to finally case in the 1.

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The desire for Performance SQL Tips

It seems, people are clammering for a more consolidated help guide for SQL Performance tips. Jay Pipes at the MySQL Camp ran a session Interactive Top 10 SQL performance Tips .

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The Falcon!

Some early notes by Brian Aker on Falcon as discussed at the MySQL Camp . Falcon is a transactional engine MySQL will be introducing. The first discussions were held about 3 years ago with Ann Harrison and about 1 1/2 years ago, MySQL started taking seriously the possibilities.

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Googlewear

I was able to acquire my first piece of Google wear at the recent MySQL Camp Conference. You see a look of cool Google things and little did I know you can buy a lot of it at The Google Store .

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MyISAM++

Monty gave us a quick overview of next generation of MyISAM. It is set to include: New data disk format Transaction support multi-versioning row level locking and escalation to table level locks.

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Doxygen Project

What the? Well this is the inheritance diagram of the Item Class in the MySQL 5.1 Source tree, nicely documented using the Doxygen tool as mentioned by Jay in his presentation at MySQL Camp .

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Return to Google Lobby – Camp Photo

Early on Sunday Day #3, I dragged a few willing participants out for a “different photo” based on the umbrellas in each Lobby. It worked out well. Special thanks to Kynan who ran around to other lobby’s to find additional umbrellas.

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MySQL Replibeertion

MySQL Replibeertion was the last scheduled session on Day 2, but not withstanding there was free beer (a lot of), there was a serious side with a Replication Discussion. One of the first questions by Jeremy was “Are the any big replication users?

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Day 2 – Memorable Quotes

Continuing on from my Day 1 – Memorable Quotes from the MySQL Camp . “Are there any big replication users” — Jeremy “Are you calling me fat again” — Sheeri

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