So we had MySQL User Camp on 19th June, 2013. Turn out of the
people were less than what we expected based on the registration
but even then it was a good gathering. Among the many familiar
faces from the last MySQL User Camp in March 2013, many new faces
could also be seen this time who missed MySQL User Camp last
time.
Event started at its scheduled time sharp at 5:00 pm with a
welcome speech by Sanjay Manwani, Director of MySQL India. He
announced (tentative) date of next MySQL User Camp to be on 9th
October, 2013.
It was followed by a talk on "InnoDB Storage Engine
overview" by Annamalai Gurusami (MySQL India Sustenance Team
Engineer). Talk went very well. Interest of people in InnoDB was
evident from the number of questions they asked during the talk.
Due to interesting questions and answer session, it took a bit
longer and finished at 6:00 pm.
After this, we had a guest speaker, Karthik P.R. Karthik is MySQL
DBA and is working with Wipro. He is a MySQL veteran and has
explored MySQL in depth. He wanted to talk about his experience
with MySQL. He spoke for only 15 mins but I must say, very
encouraging talk which clearly pointed out benefits if a DBA or
user chooses MySQL. There were few interesting take aways from
development perspective as well.
Then it was 6:15 pm. I got a chance to speak about Performance
Schema. Talk was aimed to give introduction of Performance
Schema, what it is, how it works and what new we have in 5.6. It
went very well with number of questions asked during and at the
end of the session. People found Performance Schema very
interesting and a tool which they always wished for. I could see
the excitement on their face to use Performance Schema in 5.6.
One of them asked if the source code of Performance Schema is
available on-line (coz he wanted to play around with the code)
and was happy to know that its source is open.
Talks finished at 7:00 pm. It was the time for informal
networking with community users and refreshment. I got a chance
to speak to community users over tea & Samosa (An Indian
spicy snack). They seemed very excited about latest MySQL release
- 5.6 and were willing to give it a try.
Feedback from attendees
I was having a look at feedback forms today morning. It felt very
good to see such a positive response. People also suggested
topics to be included in next talk like Replication, Optimization
and database tuning and best practices. We would definitely take
their suggestions into consideration.
Follow us on following group to participate in next MySQL User
Camp:
Facebook group : MySQL User Camp
Linked-in group: MySQL India Google Group :
bangalore-mysql-user-camp
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