So, I’m in my hotel room and I got some sleep. Now, it is 2:15 am and Icouldn’t sleep for some reason. PRobably has something to do with me being narcoleptic, as weird as it sounds Since I can’t sleep for a bit anyway, I figured writing a blog summarising the first day of FrOSCon would be a good idea.

Well, in one word: GREAT! In a few more: The first day was a big success. I started it out with a shift at the registration desk (I’m volunteering for FrOSCon as well). Since it was very early, most people that came in were actually exhibitors and speakers, and they all had to be at the VIP desk. At first, the door wouldn’t open. Later it turned out that the sensors thought we were to close to it. Claustrophobic doors are interesting.

Then, there was breakfast for the people with VIP access. Basically that was anyone who was not just a visitor. I helped out for a bit and then went back to my hotel room to catch up on some …

I arrived yesterday in St. Augustin, near Bonn in Germany. After a good day of hitchhiking (weather is beautiful here) I stayed with my Pakistani Couchsurfing host and we had an extremely interesting evening talking about the gigantic cultural differences between western civilization and Pakistani civilization. It beats staying in a hotel by about a million points

This morning I headed to the FrOScon HQ at the fachhochschule to help out with whatever was needed. Turns out that was a bit premature (misunderstanding on my part), so I have had some time to catch up on mail and give some more attention to my talk on Saturday. I’ll be helping out throughout the and the whole day tomorrow with things though.

I’ll be talking about MySQL MMM, a project that I have invested …

I'll be at the OpenSQLCamp 2009 which is part of the FrosCon this weekend and give a talk about drumroll MySQL Proxy.

http://programm.froscon.org/2009/track/OpenSQLCamp/index.de.html has all the sessions incl. my

MySQL Proxy: a MySQL toolbox

Architecture and Concepts of misuse

It will be an extension of my MySQL Conference talk from this year with binlogs, frm-files, ... and what happens if you expose MySQLs core functionality as libraries and wrap it with a scripting layer.

Today, we are announcing that we're ready to offer training for InnoDB and XtraDB in Santa Clara and San Francisco.  The course was developed by Morgan Tocker with input from all our team - and covers a lot of the performance problems we run through in our consulting practice.

The Details:

14th Sept - Santa Clara
1 day intensive course
Cost: $300*

16th Sept - San Francisco
1 day intensive course
Cost: $300*

(* includes a copy of High Performance MySQL if you register before 31st Aug).

The delivery format:

Being only one day, we elected to deliver the course in a predominately lecture-format - but there will be a few opportunities to try examples.  For more information see the …

Talks are great. I however very much like discussion and opinion share atmosphere of the Birds of a Feather sessions so we host/co-host number of BOFs at the comming OSCON conference.

Future of MySQL Forks, Branches and Patches I guess is the topic a lot of us are interested in. Monty was going to Show Up and we also should see if we can get someone from Drizzle.

Is Enterprise Flash Ready for Prime Time Flash is cool and hot these days. This is the discussion session and I would really like to hear how well flash works for you whenever you're using it for storage as a cache or as a part of your hybrid storage hierarchy.

Open Source Data Management Is …

The OSCON 2009 is taking place next week and we have bunch of talks we're presenting. I am presenting Full Text Search with Sphinx, MySQL Community Patches and Extensions and Goal Driven Performance Optimization.

Vadim and Ryan have a talk XTraDB OpenSource Storage Engine for MySQL.

This month OSCON is taking place in Silicon Valley which is good for me as I do not have to spend the whole week away from home. Though I would …

This is just a public service announcement (reminder?) that LenZ and Giuseppe are planning OpenSQL Camp 2009, this time in Europe, which is great. It'll be part of FrOSCon.

I wish I could say that I'll attend, but due to various unpredictabilities in my family, I can't plan that far ahead. I don't yet know whether anyone from Percona can attend, but I know a couple of our European consultants are looking at it and tossing around various proposals. (BTW, any lack of proposals / sessions from Percona is strictly our fault, in case there is concern about that. One person noticed and said something to me, so I thought it's worth mentioning.)

I'm thrilled that people thought the first OpenSQL Camp was valuable enough that they're carrying it …

Video for the presentation at the 2009 MySQL Camp:
Chasing Bottlenecks
by Morgan Tocker

Description:
The best way to performance tune a system is to find out what your bottlenecks are, and attacking those first. In the first part of this session, I'll be looking at some of the issues faced with common database workloads. From there, I'll then be showing how you can get more information out of MySQL and your Operating System to find out about your workload. This session is designed for beginner to intermediate MySQL users.

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The Scaling with Flash webinar I've mentioned earlier was a success and we got the recording available. It contains Percona presentation, presentation of Schooner appliances and Q&A session. Enjoy.

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Hi All!

This year, the International Free Software Forum celebrated its 10th anniversary. It happened last week in Porto Alegre.

Pythian presented a session on Thursday called 8 Rules for Designing More Secure Applications with MySQL.

As promised, here are the slides we used on that session: 8 Simple Rules to Design Secure Apps with MySQL (PDF).

Cheers!