As a member of the conference committee I review the session and tutorial proposals for the Percona Live MySQL conference in Santa Clara, 2012. The sessions are expected to be technical, and I'm happy the proposals follow this guideline. I use Giuseppe's and Baron's general guidelines for submitting a proposal. I wish to humbly add [...]
This post concludes my impressions from some of the talks I’ve been to. Thursday OQGRAPH: Dealing with Graphs and Hierarchies in Plain SQL / Antony Curtis (Blizzard Entertainment) I opened this day's sessions with a smile. Antony Curtis and Arjen Lentz have authored the OQGraph storage engine a while back. I had every intention to [...]
This post continues my impressions from some of the talks I've been to. I'll dedicate this post to a single session. Wednesday BoF: Replication, Lars Thalmann, Mat Keep (Oracle) Lars Thallman presented the MySQL 5.5 replication features, as well as the expected 5.6 features. Among other features, one could notice parallel replication, binlog checksums, sub-second [...]
This post continues my impressions from some of the talks I've been to. Wednesday Replication for Availability & Durability with MySQL and Amazon RDS / Grant McAlister (Amazon.com) Grant McAlister described the Amazon RDS offer, which provides with a pre-installed MySQL servers, and supports auto management of replication and high availability. He desribed asynchronous vs. [...]
Having the conference behind now, I'm reviewing some of my impressions and of sessions I attended. The people To begin with, this conference was a big success for me, in many respects. The sessions were great (more on that later), but of course, meeting with new people and with familiar people, was the more important [...]
Today I have delivered my talk, openark-kit: MySQL utilities for everyday use, at the O'REILLY MySQL Conference 2011. The slides are uploaded to the O'Reilly site, and I'm attaching them here as well. Feel free to download the PDF: openark-kit-mysqlconf11.pdf I wish to thank all who attended my talk!
I'm still throwing papers to the trash and starting all over, fixing, rewriting and improving my talk at mysqlconf 2011, where I will be presenting openark-kit: MySQL utilities for everyday use. However I've got something up my sleeve: a benefit many can enjoy, that'll make me a respectful, popular and sought after speaker. While others [...]
I'm very pleased and humbled to announce that my submission to the upcoming O'Reilly MySQL Conference, April 2011, has been accepted. I will present a 45 minute session titled openark-kit: MySQL utilities for everyday use. In this session, I will present some of the tools in the openark kit. We'll discuss some limitations of the [...]
Though most probably I won't be there in person, here's what I expect to hear from Edward Screven, Oracle, on the State of the Dolphin keynote, coming MySQL Conference & Expo. I'm under the assumption that no shocking news are delivered. That is, that for the near future, it's business as usual for MySQL. Last [...]
This is just something that I realized this morning. There were some talks about how the "MySQL Users Conference & Expo" was renamed to "MySQL Conference & Expo" - thereby omitting the "Users" part. The talk was something like "So where are we, the users, in this story?" But what I've just recalled was a [...]