What: Sydney Oracle Meetup #3 - Focus on E-Business Suite + Oracle/Sun deal
When: April 28, 2009 5:30 PM
Where: As usual - Sydney Mechanics School of Art
How: just register at the SOM website.

We have to limit the number of people to 40 this time so make sure you RSVP timely!

We are gathering at 5:30pm and technical goodies are starting at 6pm so use this time to catch up with other members. We should finish by 8:30pm including a beaks and some post follow up. The presentation schedule is a bit floating this time.

As usual, we should have some pizza and beverages facilitating seamless peer networking. ;-)

In addition to the main topic, we plan to have some overview of Oracle / Sun deal and share what everyone thinks about it + report from the …

A number of developers look at SQL tuning hints as a way to performance tune queries. Where the best way to tune SQL code is not to use hints. Hints add high maintenance code and try to influence the Cost Based Optimizer which can have negative impacts in the future. What if the data distributions change or the optimizer adds new features in the future? The best way to tune SQL code is to

Kazuho Oku of Cybozu Labs, Inc., a community contributor to MySQL and SCA signatory, gives a talk on Q4M, a message queue stroage engine for MySQL.

Kazuho Oku of Cybozu Labs, Inc., a community contributor to MySQL and SCA signatory, gives a talk on Q4M, a message queue stroage engine for MySQL.

OurDelta builds of MySQL 5.0.77-d8 for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) builds are done, thanks to some smart and fast work by Peter. The packages are getting copied to the main site right now, and the mirrors should be up-to date within half a day or so.

I arrived at the MySQL Users Conference just in time for the The Great Open Cloud Shootout.

Kaj Arno was asking questions to the invited panelists shown in the picture above. Here is a partial discussion:

What is cloud ?

I arrived at the MySQL Users Conference just in time for the The Great Open Cloud Shootout.

Kaj Arno was asking questions to the invited panelists shown in the picture above. Here is a partial discussion:

What is cloud ?

In case you also want to replay the same dbSTRESS test scenarios I've posted results yesterday, I've added into the test kit a shell script which may be used as a Reference Scenario.

More details on how to use it is here .
As well dbSTRESS kit and User Guide are available for download from http://dimitrik.free.fr

I'm sitting in Kaj Arnö's Cloud Computing Shoot Out here in the MySQL Confernce & Expo. Great panel, great discussion! The important question, always, is about business models related to storage vs. compute clouds.

I'm sitting in Kaj Arnö's Cloud Computing Shoot Out here in the MySQL Confernce & Expo. Great panel, great discussion! The important question, always, is about business models related to storage vs. compute clouds.