The first hour of a 2-hour workshop on what to do with a MySQL instance you’ve inherited. Very detailed, goes into real examples using shell prompts.

Unfortunately, the settings were incorrect on the video recorder, so only the 1st hour was captured. Presented at the Boston MySQL Meetup Group on February 13th, 2006.

Special thanks to Tom C. for securing the MIT space.

google video

flash slides

pdf slides (this might be broken, please let me know)

worksheet

As always, stylistic criticism as well as content criticism is appreciated.

The February meeting of the Boston MySQL Meetup will be held on Monday, February 13th (tomorrow!) at 7 pm. We have a new location, on the MIT campus. This means that there is close subway access AND plenty of FREE PARKING. The meeting is free, including pizza (with toppings) and soda.

To view details, see
http://mysql.meetup.com/137/events/4829769/?a=rem_c

The topic is “So You’ve Inherited a MySQL Instance” (which I *just* found out last week was not accepted for the MySQL Users Conference. Probably too basic of a workshop for the conference). It will be useful for beginners, and experience MySQL users will refresh their memory on what needs to be secured.

It has a unix focus, but most of the ideas can be applied to Windows users as well.

The Boston MySQL Meetup Group was successful yet again! I was a bit worried about my presentation, that it would be too basic or folks would have wanted to see actual code and scripts, but it turned out well.

You may notice that the links at the side (http://www.sheeri.com if you’re reading a feed) include a category called “Presentations”. Currently the December presentation is linked to, direct to Google Video, and the slides from tonight’s meeting are also up in PDF format as well as macromedia flash. And, of course, tonight’s video, thanx to Mike Kruckenberg. Mike also took pictures!

Folks who were at the presentation — feel free to let me know what you thought of it. Folks not at the presentation — feel free to watch the video and let me know what you think. I’m especially interested for those folks …

The MySQL Meetup group meeting on Monday, January 9th will focus on backups — I will give a 30-45 minute presentation on backups and we will then delve into a discussion — how folks within the group are backing up, how they’re not backing up, how they’d like to back up. If there’s time, we’ll do a “lessons learned from backup horror stories”.

Afterwards, we’ll head a few doors down to Boston Beer Works for more chatting.

You can see a video of last month’s presentation by Philip Antionades of MySQL AB on the new features in MySQL 5.0 at Google Video:

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Mysql+5.0+by+Philip+Antoniades

(we will video this month’s presentation but not the discussion)

More details, including the event location and directions, are at: …

Just as a reminder, there is a MySQL Seattle Meetup on Monday at the Elysian. People show up at 7:00.

More Information is here:
http://mysql.meetup.com/31/events/4796298/

I believe I should have some O'Reilly books on hand to give out.

Topics have included: MySQL, MySQL, favorite science fiction shows, Asterisk, and the ever popular "how many channels of TV are you recording on your MyTH system"

The first Boston MySQL Meetup went swimmingly. About 1/2 the people who RSVP’s yes or maybe showed up, which meant that the fine Optaros folks hosting us (thanx again to Stephen Walli) got pizza as a thank-you gift.

My boss offered me a ride home, otherwise I would have taken Stephen up on his offer to get a beer. Next time, definitely — I’ll just go into work later, and not be tempted by a ride home.

The demographics of the group was really amazing:

about 15% female
those with no experience with any database
those with experience with databases but not MySQL
those who’ve been using MySQL for weeks
those who’ve been using MySQL for months
those who’ve been using MySQL for years
those who are trying to convince their company to switch
about 10% Indian …

Hi all,

The first Meetup of the Boston MySQL group will be Monday, November 14th, at 7 pm, near North Station. For more details, see http://mysql.meetup.com/137/events/. Please sign up for the Meetup group, so you can be informed of future events.

I did it!
Well, there are 32 people plus myself interested in a Boston MySQL meetup.

So I did it:

http://mysql.meetup.com/137/

Please join if you’re interested. (feel free to link, pass on, etc).