MySQL Users Conference 2008
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 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 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.
Read morePrimeBase XT (PBXT) in the news
In today’s Official MySQL Press Release , PrimeBase XT (PBXT) has been named along with three other storage engine partners in “Sun Celebrates Third-Party MySQL Storage Engines“. This a great achievement for a small company to be recognized in the certified storage engine partner program, in comparison to the other companies that are much larger on the balance sheet.
Read moreOff to a flying start
Marten has opened the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo. This time he started in his opening comments “I have more to say to more people, and given less time to say it”.
Read moreA few words from Jonathan Schwartz
Following Marten Mickos , the second opening keynote at the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo was by Jonathan Schwartz CEO and President of Sun Microsystems. Blog His opening joke was about dinner with Marten, to which Marten said “You not going to get a keynote, unless you buy the company.
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