MySQL User Conferences
MySQL conference schedule
I am one of the crazy individuals(*) that will be speaking at both the regular O’Reilly MySQL Conference and the IOUG Collaborate conference both being held in the second week of April.
Read more2011 MySQL Conferences
Next year will mark a significant change for the MySQL community. At least three major conferences will have dedicated MySQL content that is great for attendees getting the best information on how to use MySQL from the experts in the field.
Read moreUpcoming Conferences with dedicated MySQL content
We recently held a dedicated MySQL Track at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2010 conference for 4 days. This is the first of many Oracle events that will begin to include dedicated MySQL content.
Read more2010 MySQL Conference Presentations
I have uploaded my three presentations from the 2010 MySQL Users Conference in Santa Clara, California which was my 5th consecutive year appearing as a speaker. IGNITION – MySQLCamp for Oracle DBA – Volume I LIFTOFF – MySQLCamp for Oracle DBA – Volume 2 10x Performance Improvements – A Case Study A full history of my MySQL presentations can be found on the Presenting page.
Read moreMy acceptance with Oracle as ACE Director
I hinted last week of my acceptance with Oracle before the formal announcement this week at the MySQL Users Conference, not for a job but as Oracle ACE Director . In today’s State of the MySQL Community keynote by Kaj Arnö I was one of the first three MySQL nominees that are now part of this program.
Read moreState of the Dolphin – Opening keynote
Edward Screven – Chief Corporate Architect of Oracle provided the opening keynote at the 2010 MySQL Users Conference . Overall I was disappointed. The first half was more an Oracle Sales pitch, we had some product announcements, we had some 5.
Read moreEdward Screven of Oracle to Answer Questions for future of MySQL
For those of you on the O’Reilly MySQL conference list you will no doubt see this email, but for readers here is the important bits. _ Oracle Executive Will Speak at O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo
Read moreEurope conference options for MySQL Developers
For those in the US the annual MySQL UC is taking place again in April. For those in Europe we have dedicated room for MySQL and MySQL related products/variants/branches at FOSDEM 2010 being held in Brussels, Belgium on 6-7 Feb.
Read moreTranscending Technology Specific Boundaries
I had the pleasure to sit on the Performance Panel at the recent Percona Performance Conference . While the panel contained a number of usual MySQL suspects, one person was not familiar, that being Cary Millsap from Method R .
Read morePercona Performance Conference Talk
My final presentation during the 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo week was with the Percona Performance Conference on the topic of The Ideal Performance Architecture. My talk included discussions on Technology, Disk, Memory, Indexes, SQL and Data.
Read moreMySQL Monitoring 101
At the 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo I presented to a full room on MySQL Monitoring 101 . This presentation focused on the following four goals. Know what to monitor Know how you can monitor Learn practices to diagnose problems Have a foundation of historical information MySQL Monitoring 101 View more presentations from Ronald Bradford.
Read moreA change in the MySQL Binary distributions
Yesterday was the surprise announcement of MySQL 5.4 at the 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo. It was unfortunate that the supporting information was not that forthcoming on the MySQL website. I tried for several hours to try and download, but no mirrors were initially available.
Read moreSetting up MySQL on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Presentation
On Tuesday at the MySQL Camp 2009 in Santa Clara I presented Setting up MySQL on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This presentation assumed you know nothing about AWS, and have no account.
Read moreWhat’s happening with InnoDB
I have moved on to InnoDB: Innovative Technologies for Performance and Data Protection by Ken Jacobs at MySQL Conference and Expo . With a brief history lesson of inception from 1994, inclusion in MySQL in 2000 and acquired by Oracle in 2005.
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