MySQL Conference &Amp;Amp; Expo 2007
Everything fails, Monitor Everything
From the recent [MySQL Conference][1] a number of things resonate strongly almost daily with me. These included: Guy Kawasaki – Don’t let the bozos grind you down. Boy, the bozos have ground me down this week.
Read moreThe MySQL Conference recap
I recently had the opportunity to return and speak at the Brisbane MySQL Users Group . I spent some time talking about MySQL User Conference 2007 Summary and Life as a Consultant.
Read moreMySQL Cluster Certified
Jonathon Coombes recently blogged in MySQL Cluster Certified that he passed the MySQL Cluster DBA Certification as was the first Australian. Lucky for him I passed the exam after my presentation on the second day of the conference.
Read moreMySQL Conference – YouTube
MySQL Conference 2007 Day 4 rolled quickly into the second keynote Scaling MySQL at YouTube by Paul Tuckfield. The introduction by Paul Tuckfield was; “What do I know about anything, I was just the DBA at PayPal, now I’m just the DBA at youTube.
Read moreMySQL Conference – Get Behind Dorsal Source
In a community session yesterday at MySQL Conference 2007, I first heard about [Dorsal Source][1]. A collaboration between [Solid DB][2] and [Proven Scaling][3] that allows for community people to upload patches to [MySQL][4], get it compiled across multiple platforms, and have a downloadable distribution available on H/W individual contributors will never have access to.
Read moreMySQL Conference – PHP on Hormones
MySQL Conference 2007 Day 4 started early again at 8:20 am with PHP on Hormones by the father of PHP Ramus Lerdorf. A very funny man, one of the best insightful talks of the conference (rather scary actually).
Read moreMySQL Conference – Google
MySQL: The Real Grid Database Introduction Can’t work on performance problems until we solve the availability We want MySQL to fix our problems first. The problem Deploy a DBMS for a workload with too many queries to many transactions to much data A well known solution
Read moreQuote – 26 April 2007
“The web is broken you can all go home now.” Ramus Lerdorf — Father of PHP — MySQL Conference 2007
Read moreQuote – 25 April 2007
“Don’t complain, do something about it” Baron Schwartz – Creator of MySQL Toolkit — MySQL Conference 2007
Read moreMySQL Roadmap
Here are some notes from the MySQL Server Roadmap session at the MySQL Conference 2007. MySQL: Past and Future 2001: 3:23 2003: 4.0 UNION query Cache Embedded 2004: 41. Subqueries 2005: 5.
Read moreQuote – 25 April 2007
“What ever advice you got, keep it to yourself, your not the target market.” Red Hat & One Laptop Per Child UI Designer to bunch of suits – MySQL Conference 2007
Read moreMySQL Conference – For Oracle DBAs and Developers
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.
Read moreMySQL Conference – Building a Vertical Search Engine in a Day
Moving into the user sessions on the first day at MySQL Conference 2007, I attended Building a Vertical Search Engine in a Day . Some of my notes for reference.
Read moreMySQL Conference – RedHat Keynote – One Laptop Per Child
Our third keynote at MySQL Conference 2007 was titled Building the Ultimate Database Container with RHEL, MySQL, and Virtualization by Michael Evans. The presentation was on Red Hat & One Laptop Per Child.
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