Looks like our blog has turned into a MySQL blog over this week, so I have to do something about it. Luckily, I have zillions of pending posts, so I’ll start with posting my presentations materials from this conference with my remarks on how it went in general. On Monday, I was presenting about Oracle 10g [...]

Beth Breidenbach, having braved a week thick with posts from the MySQL Conference, has published the 42nd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs, on Confessions of a database geek. Good one, Beth! Here’s Log Buffer #42.

Another early start. But how could I miss Rasmus talking about PHP. The slides are there if you are interested. The history of PHP is fascinating, and it is interesting to see how it evolved. Rasmus also showed us how the MySQL conference site (run by O’Reilly) and the IBM site were vulnerable to Cross [...]

Starting out bright and early again. I have a feeling Martin and Yannick might gang up on me for waking them up so early every morning and making sure we are on our way at 7am sharp, but it’s worth it. We did make it here for the keynotes. The first session was Freedom Businesses [...]

It seems Google couldn’t wait to have their code evaluated for merging into the main source tree, and decided to release it to the general public as patches to 4.0.26 for the community to evaluate.

What have we added and enhanced? The high availability features include support for semi-synchronous replication, mirroring the binlog from a master to [...]

So Shirley sent me an SMS to let me know my rehearsal was scheduled, and I managed to set up my (Linux) laptop with the projector, so I’m all set. Special thanks to Lauren from O’Reilly conferences who is awesome with computers and projectors, and didn’t blink an eye when I told him we might [...]

Here you go — slides of the presentation. I will probably blog on the presentation and any interesting questions I got, but that will have to wait till after the conference. MySQL Conference 2007: Real World MySQL Tuning (PDF)

I got an early start to the day today. I still don’t have a rehearsal schedule for my presentation, so I may have to miss lunch to get the opportunity to test out my slides (which will be posted on this blog, by the way). But thats a minor irritant - I do have them in PDF, so worst-case I’ll just use the computer/projector set-up provided by the a/v crew.

The keynotes started with Mårten Mickos, the CEO of MySQL AB giving us a “State of MySQL” address. Keeping all the people together in a company where 70% of the employees work from home and are distributed across hundreds of cities across the world is no easy task, and I have a lot of respect for him.

The roadmap for MySQL looks very interesting, with 5.1 expected to be stable by the end of the …

Day 0 (tutorials), post 2. (I’m still working on the versioning thing — bear with me.) I snuck into the 5.1 new features session halfway through but definitely well worth it. Lots of new features coming out in 5.1 though Brian Aker admits some of them are not quite production-ready yet, so don’t go [...]

A quick note for those of you enjoying the MySQL Conference & Expo 2007 in Santa Clara this week. As part of Pythian’s Gold sponsorship of the conference, we’re trying something new. We understand that the tradeshow floor for booth sponsors is a bit out of the way, and in any case, there were no [...]