I will be a speaker at Percona Live - London 2011, and I am looking
forward to the event, which is packed with great content. A
whopping 40 session of MySQL content, plus 3 keynotes and 14
tutorials. It's enough to keep every MySQL enthusiast busy.
Continuent speakers will be particularly busy, as between me
and Robert Hodges, we will be on stage four times
on Tuesday, October 25th.
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Oct
18
2011
Oct
08
2011
Learn how the experts would design and architect a MySQL system to able to scale seamlessly. This presentation covers the necessary principles including:
- System Architecture
- Data Availability
- Best Practices
- Being proactive
- Preparing for a disaster
- Planning for success
Presenter: Ronald Bradford
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Sep
02
2011
In my last post, I provided a short review of what I have been working on in the past few months since I joined the Oracle Linux team. Now it's time for a summary of upcoming events! Looking forward, I already have a few more things lined up:
I'll attend and speak at the Oracle OpenWorld 2011 conference in San Francisco in October. I have a joint session with Chris Mason titled Overview: New Features in Oracle Linux 6 where we'll cover the latest developments. I have another joint presentation with my colleague Rob Young from the MySQL product …
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Sep
02
2011
Despite my best intentions, I haven't posted on this blog for a while, which is a shame! I've become busy writing on so many other places since I moved into my new role in the Oracle Linux product management team in April. I've learned a lot and I am feeling quite at home here! The team is excellent and very nice to work with — I am slowly getting the "Big Picture".
But even though I've been neglecting this blog, there are a lot of things that are publicly visible and document some of my activites:
I've created two podcasts for the Oracle Linux podcasts:
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Jun
28
2011
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There are a number of significant new features in MySQL 5.5 including semi-synchronous replication, SIGNAL and RESIGNAL, the PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA, additional STATUS variables, new partitioning options, different default storage engine, better UTF8 support and removal of deprecated functions just to list key considerations.
However some of the performance improvements are worth the investment of time. For a high concurrency InnoDB environment one new configuration alone can provide a …
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Jun
22
2011
On July 12th at 9 AM PST I will be giving a webinar about performance implications for Hibernate and Connector/J. If you cannot attend at this time, a recorded session will be available soon after the webinar.
MySQL is not only about LAMP, and a lot of people use it from Java apps. For some of those, Hibernate is the persistent framework of choice. This webinar will discuss the performance implications of using Hiberate to manage persistence with a MySQL backend, and also some more broad implications for Connector/J that will apply for anyone using MySQL from Java.
Topics will include:
* Very brief overview of ORMs and Hibernate
* Fetch strategies
* Lazyness
* Manually written SQL
* Concurrency
* Concurrency-related config options for Connector/J
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Jun
16
2011
fisl12 is likely the largest free and open source software event in Latin America. This year, it takes place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from June 29th to July 2nd. Oracle is a gold sponsor of the event and I will attend it as a speaker. I feel honoured and excited to be there – for me it will be the first visit to the South American continent.
They already have over 3000 registered attendees, so this definitely is going to be a great conference. There is quite a number of well-known names on the speaker roster and I look forward to meeting a lot of familar faces there.
The agenda is still under development but quite impressive already – …
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May
30
2011
Learn how to use one simple advanced technique to make better MySQL indexes and improve your queries by 500% or more. Even with a highly indexed schema significant improvements in performance can be achieved by creating better indexes.
This presentation introduces the approach for correct identification and verification of problem SQL statements and then describes the means of identifying index choices for optimization. Then discussed is not only how to apply indexes to improve query performance, but how to apply better indexes and provide even greater performance gains.
This presentation includes:
- 6 steps to successful SQL review
- Effective …
Apr
29
2011
Linuxtag is likely one of the oldest and largest Linux/OSS events in Germany. I remember having been there to represent SuSE Linux while it still took place at the University of Kaiserslautern, using tables and chairs from the lecture rooms as exhibition stands (this must have been around 1998 or 1999). This year it will take place in Berlin again, and the session schedule looks very promising. I'll be there from Wednesday till Friday and I feel that I will have a hard time deciding which presentations I should attend...
I'll be speaking about What's new in MySQL 5.5 on Friday, 13th of May, at 15:00. If you haven't updated to MySQL 5.5 yet, stop by to hear what new …
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Apr
13
2011
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Learn the right techniques to maximize your investment in MySQL by knowing the best practices for DBAs and Developers. Learn what subtle differences between Oracle and MySQL are essential to understand in order to maximize the benefits of MySQL. We will be covering the ideal means for writing SQL statements, documenting your SQL, analyzing your SQL, MySQL software installation, configuration and maintenance best practices.
This new …
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