My presentation, entitled “MySQL for non-DBAs” went well…considering the very broad topic and that the laptop I was going to present from decided to have a hissy fit. It was my work-sanctioned XP Pro laptop and the registry decided to corrupt itself, causing it to reboot over and over and over and…. Oh joy! Luckily, the group organizer allowed me to borrow his Mac and since I had the presentation on a USB drive (OpenOffice.org format, of course) we were rockin’ and rollin’ in no time.
I took the “MySQL 5.0 for DBAs” course last year. That was a 5-day course that used over 220+ slides. I compressed over three quarters of that content down to about 40 slides for a 2-hour talk with some live demo work thrown in for good measure. It was a tough presentation to put together given such a large amount of information. I tried to highlight the design, the engines, the commands, etc.. I relied on audience questions to act as tangents …
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