Tips 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.

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PrimeBase 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.

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Scaling 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.

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What’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.

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The next opening keynote – Everything fails, All the Time

Our third keynote this morning was by Dr Werner Vogels – CTO Amazon.com His second question to the audience “How many of you don’t shop at Amazon?” When one or two people raised their hands he commented, “Can I talk to you later.

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Standing 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.

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PrimeBase 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.

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Off 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”.

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A 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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MySQL Awards at the MySQL Conference & Expo

Announced this morning is this year’s MySQL award winners. 2008 MySQL Application of the Year FaceBook – Social Network Virgin Mobile France – Mobile Operator eBay – ECommerce Site 2008 MySQL Partner of the Year

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Watching what you say?

Marten has opened the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo this morning in Santa Clara. What was funny in the early slides was the photo showing the burning of the IPO Prospectus.

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PrimeBase Technologies a MySQL Platinum Level Partner

As per the Platinum Partners List PrimeBase Technologies has made a key achievement. I think this is a great list to make for the company. There are only 18 Platinum partners, and PrimeBase Technologies are the third Storage Engine provider and the second first open source storage engine company.

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What is your max_connections?

Kevin Murphy just posted Tip of the Day — max_connections and I thought it might be nice to know what people actually set this to so I’ve created a Survey “What’s your max_connections ” (totally anonymous).

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Trying out Google App Engine

I got my registration for Google App Engine this morning after being Waitlisted previously . Between flying for about 15 hrs tomorrow and then the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo where I’m presenting and running an Exhibitors booth, fat chance I’ll get to look into this much over the next week.

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