While waiting in the line for a breakfast table, I found Reggie Burnett, who is still with MySQL now Oracle. We shared a table and talking about Android and the future of handhelds.

I missed the keynotes by Edward Screven and by Tim O'Reilly. Instead I had scheduled interviews with The 451 Group and then with Robert Scoble. Those both went really well. And I learned that the Screven speech went not so well, which would have been amusing, but not a good use of time.

The rest of the day, so far, has consisted of meeting people, spending time at the Memcached.org booth and the Gear6 booth, and doing more scheduled tech press interviews. Sarah Novotny showed up during the nosh and free beer, right before the BOF sessions.

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I like both Adobe (Lightroom rocks!) and Apple (iPad rocks!), but I’ve been asked over and over again what I think about Apple’s new 3.3.1 policy. You know, the one that basically bans cross-platform development frameworks. And, in particular, basically nails the Flash coffin shut on iPhone/iPod/iPad. So, what do I think?

I love it.

And I’m surprised more developers, end users, business leaders, and general web standards lovers everywhere aren’t posting about how great this is.

It’s good for end users.

The App Store already has a signal-to-noise problem. With hundreds of thousands of apps, finding the good stuff is tough. Bear in mind that every single one of those Apps was built by someone intentionally designing for these devices – and we’ve still got plenty of …

Yesterday I delivered my presentation for the MySQL User Conference and Expo 2010: Optimizing MySQL Stored Routines. If you are interested in the slides, you can find them on both the MySQL conference site as well as on slideshare.net. Here's the abstract of my presentation so you can decide if this is interesting for you: MySQL stored routines (functions, procedures, triggers and events) can be useful. But many casually written stored routines are unnecessarily slow. The main reason is that MySQL does not apply even simple code optimizations to stored routine code. …

Well the first day has come and gone and I really enjoyed my first day as a newbie. The keynote from Oracle was well received, they touched on the new Beta version of MySQL and the new mysql enterprise which to a trained oracle eye is looking more and more like Grid Control. The end result is providing more instrumentation to help the DBA but I am a little disappointed that a lot of that instrumentation is not actually in the database itself which forces you to buy the product.

The O’Reilly Keynote provided some interesting glimpse into the future.

There is a strong contingent from Facebook and those sessions are just packed with everybody wanting to know how they scale their infrastructure.

The spider storage engine presentation tweaked by interested with the promise of vertical partitioning…I’ll have to try that when I come back.

My presentation “Better Database Debugging for Shorter Downtimes” went …

I (Bradley C. Kuszmaul) am presenting two talks at the MySQL User Conference.

The first talk is a 5-minute talk at tonight’s Ignite MySQL session organized by Brian Aker. I’ll present some performance measurements on the Intel X25E SSD. The bottom line is that although I can get the 3,300 random 4KB writes per second, as the spec sheet advertises, I cannot seem to get more than about 11,000 reads per second, although the spec sheet says I should get 35,000.

My second talk is tomorrow (Thursday) at 10:50am, where I’ll talk about Fractal Trees. I’ll explain how Fractal Trees work, and show why they can get one to two orders of magnitude speedup on insertions compared to B-tree indexes. The talk is about data structures and algorithms, but I think it should be easy for everyone to understand. If you want to know why Fractal …

Please note that Oracle Univerisity has placed a hard limit on number of exams at the Users Conference this year. If you wait to the last moment, you may not get a chance to show your knowledge!

Congratulations to those who took certification exams at the MySQL Users Conference this year. We have 18 new 5.0 DBAs and 2 new 5.0 Developers after Monday.

Testing is in the Magnolia Room in the Hyatt, near the front desk and starts at 8:30 AM PDT.

Here are the slides to my talk yesterday: A Practical Guide to the PBXT Storage Engine.

For anyone who missed my talk, I think it is worth going through the slides, because the are fairly self explanatory.

If there are any questions, please post them as a comment to the blog. I will be glad to answer :)

Just a quick note to say the talk I gave today at the MySQL User's Conference - The Thinking Person's Guide to Data Warehouse Design - is now available for viewing and download on Slideshare.

Update: Sheeri was kind enough to have this session recorded and posted the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_iaJ8TFwy8.

Day 2 of the MySQL Conference I found to be quite good. Things were kicked off with a keynote by Oracle then followed by Tim O'Reilly (of O'Reilly press - yes, that O'Reilly) which I enjoyed quite a bit. I basically equated O'Reilly to Sarah Conner and Skynet being the companies offering complete stack solutions. Google is one such name and, at least the impression I got from O'Reilly, was that, even if Google is a good company, any company that has control over everything is a bad thing. And I tend to agree. Choice, after all, is a great thing. He had quite a bit more to say but that was the thing that stuck most with me.

I also was honored to receive an award from Rackspace's behalf for our commitment to Drizzle. To be fair, this is really something that came from our Cloud division so perhaps someone from Cloud may have …

While sitting around with Stewart, Eric, Max and Beer at the MySQL Conference and Expo, Stewart thought it would be funny if someone would do a graph showing the trend of Google searches comparing NoSQL and Your Mom. Always wanting to make Stewart laugh, I ran over to Google Trends to see if it could make a graph.

NoSQL vs. Your Mom

Given all the hype these days, you might think that Your Mom would stand no chance against the Juggernaut of NoSQL. But I was quite surprised to see that Your Mom really stuck it to NoSQL. Giving NoSQL some credit, it is making some progress.

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