MySQL just increased its enterprise attractiveness, but Oracle may not let it keep it.

My talk on libmysqld was yesterday, but I am not off the hook yet, as I still have a talk on Thursday on High Availability with MySQL, this time together with Robert Krzykawski of bWin, who will provide a real-world view on High Availability with MySQL. This is going to be a fun, as I think Robert has some interesting experiences when it comes to High Availability with MySQL running on a large website.

I went to Anthony Curtis talk on an …

So I talked to the wonderful JB from O’Reilly who is responsible for all sorts of parts of the conference, and she’s now enabled my presentations on the MySQL Conference Presentations page.

While you’re there downloading mine, make sure you go and download some of the others.

In particular, you might want to try:

• DTrace presentation which Vince Carbone did (and which I co-presented to provide a live demo of DTrace)
• Ann and Kevin’s Falcon Presentation
• Andrey’s look at the new …

Yesterday was the surprise announcement of MySQL 5.4 at the 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo. It was unfortunate that the supporting information was not that forthcoming on the MySQL website. I tried for several hours to try and download, but no mirrors were initially available. Today I see some information on the mysql.com home page and finally able to get the binary.

What I found most significant with this new major version release is a change in the binary distribution, as seen on the Download page.

MySQL 5.4 is only available on 3 platforms:

• Linux (AMD64 / Intel EM64T)
• Solaris 10 (SPARC, 64-bit)
• Solaris 10 (AMD64 / Intel EM64T, …

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.

On Tuesday at the MySQL Camp 2009 in Santa Clara I presented Setting up MySQL on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

This presentation assumed you know nothing about AWS, and have no account. With Internet access via a Browser and a valid Credit Card, you can have your own running Web Server on the Internet in under 10 minutes, just point and click.

We also step into some more detail online click and point and supplied command line tools to demonstrate some more advanced usage.

Getting started with MySQL in Amazon Web Services View more presentations from Ronald Bradford.

I see three stages in the adoption and the evolution of the adoption of cloud computing:

1. Taking an existing application, and transferring it as is into a cloud provider. This is "forklifting".

2. Taking an application, and wrapping it up in cloud based provisioning and backup. This is the business space that RightScale and Zmanda help with.

3. Developing applications that implictly assume they are running in a cloud environment. I see a lot of talk of this, but not all that many running yet. But very soon they are going to be everywhere.

Curt Monash of DBMS2, the database industry analysis and research blog, posted a flurry of Oracle/Sun/MySQL commentaries since the announcement, and upon learning that they no longer appear on PlanetMySQL I thought I would quickly draw the community’s attention to the thoughts of one of our industry’s most respected thinkers on the deal. It is [...]

110 exams delivered on the first day of the UC! That was despite Wifi Saturation. O'Reilly has provided a few more 'hard line' to help fight the problem.

Exams are in the Magnolia room (opposite the Hyatt registration desk, jut past the escalators) from 8:00 AM to 3:00PM. And the cost is still $25!

Slides:
http://www.technocation.org/files/doc/2009Keynote.pdf

References:
I am @sheeri on twitter
My blog is at http://pythian.com/blogs/author/sheeri
My e-mail is cabral@pythian.com

Pythian became the first ever Sun Enterprise Remote DBA Partner — read the details at http://tinyurl.com/pythiansun.

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