There's been quite the thread on Google+ (my how technology changes quickly...) over a comment Andrew Hutchings made on an Oracle MySQL Blog Annoucment for their new "Meet The MySQL Experts" Podcast. I should have ignored it - because I honestly could not give two shits one way or the other about Oracle or any podcasts that they may or may not decide to broadcast. But to be straightfoward about it ... the title of the podcast is ludicrous. In case you were wondering, "The" in English is the definite article and implies a singular quality to the thing that it describes... effectively implying that Oracle's MySQL Experts are, in fact, the only MySQL Experts. We all know that's false- Percona and SkySQL are both full of experts as well - likely have more MySQL Experts per-capita than Oracle does, as if a per-capita measure were important. Of course, as Matt …

Thanks again to Erin O’Neill and Mike Tougeron for having me at the SF MySQL Meetup last month for the talk on “Understanding Indexing.” The crowd was very interactive, and I appreciated that over 100 people signed up for the event and left some very positive comments and reviews.

Thanks to Mike, a video of the talk is now available:

As a brief overview – Application performance often depends on how fast a query can respond and query performance almost always depends on good indexing. So one of the quickest and least expensive ways to increase application performance is to optimize the indexes. This talk presents three simple and effective rules on how to construct indexes around queries that …

Thanks again to Erin O’Neill and Mike Tougeron for having me at the SF MySQL Meetup last month for the talk on “Understanding Indexing.” The crowd was very interactive, and I appreciated that over 100 people signed up for the event and left some very positive comments and reviews.

Thanks to Mike, a video of the talk is now available:

As a brief overview – Application performance often depends on how fast a query can respond and query performance almost always depends on good indexing. So one of the quickest and least expensive ways to increase application performance is to optimize the indexes. This talk presents three simple and effective rules on how to construct indexes around queries that …

I'm glad to see this. I'm adding it to my Google Listen subscription.

(also, the answer to "why isn't it meet the Oracle experts?" is because then you wouldn't find it by searching for "MySQL". "Meet the MySQL experts at Oracle" is a bit long and awkward.

Also, perhaps they'll interview community members when appropriate, such as when they put a community feature back into MySQL. Such as an interview with a patch submitter plus the person who decided "yes, let's put that in".

And I'll iterate again, Oracle already sponsors a community podcast, so if you'd like the Oracle community podcast to interview a MySQL Expert, let us know what topic and whom you'd like us to interview. www.oursqlcast.com has an "About" link where you can find contact information.

Thanx for the shout-out! If you have a promo blurb we'll play it on the podcast, and we'll be sure to mention it in our news section.

Also, LinuxJedi -- Yes, it's "Meet the MySQL Experts at Oracle" -- because Oracle is producing it! If Percona did a "Meet the MySQL Experts" you probably wouldn't see any Oracle personnel showing up on the podcast (though you would see other community/corporate folks like Ronald Bradford, SkySQL folks, etc).

Is the name potentially misleading? Yes. Is it *intentionally* misleading? Absolutely not, and I can say this with certainty because if Oracle intended to mislead people to think it wasn't just folks who work for the MySQL part of Oracle, you wouldn't have seen this description, and you would have to listen to several podcasts before realizing that hey, they're only going inside Oracle.

Blogs are not just yet another piece of writing. They are the manifestation of passion, perfection and purity of love towards the community. Bloggers take immense pride in sharing what they know or want to know in their blog posts, and that enables the community to respond by learning or by teaching. Log Buffer is a way to appreciate this passion, and Log Buffer #229 is yet another example of that.

Oracle:

Kyle Hailey discusses yet another Rule of Thumb about the log file syncs time.

Many questions Jonathan Lewis see on …

LinuxJedi, there's a very large team of MySQL Experts at Oracle, working hard to drive MySQL innovation in different areas. We got feedback earlier that Oracle should communicate more about the work they do, and we are now doing so via this podcast.

FYI I'm about go offline on vacation now so I will no be able to address any other comment for a while.

Hi Bertrand,

Thanks for your response.

I wasn't debating the content, just the name.

So, to be clear. You are saying that by calling it “Meet the MySQL Experts” all experts are equal, but some are more equal than others?

Thank you for your comment LinuxJedi. A primary objective of this podcast is to share more information with the wider MySQL ecosystem about what the MySQL Experts at Oracle are working on. Perhaps down the road we'll enlarge the scope, but Sheeri and Sarah's OurSQL podcast also gives voice to the wider MySQL ecosystem, so it's a good complement.