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Sun & MySQL World Tour event was held in Beijing on Apr 23. It was the first Sun & MySQL event in China and the second visit of the World Tour in APAC. More than 400 people joined and it became truly exciting event.

Kaj Arno, VP of Community at MySQL, gave his speech in Chinese to share what he has heard about this acquisition from MySQL communities in various countries he has visited since Feb as Ambassador to Sun. As you can guess from his picture, he is not a Chinese speaker. He has been practicing this speech for hours especially tones with Scott Chen, Product Manager of Software in Great China. Eventually it seemed people understood Kaj’s Chinese mostly as attendees laughed several times during his 8 minutes speech

Additionally a press conference was held on the same day in Beijing. Then some questions brought up if MySQL would go as open source or closed source. The answer was “OPEN”. Kaj insisted …

The slides of my presentations at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 are now available for download. Videos of the presentations have been uploaded to YouTube:

Inside the PrimeBase XT Storage Engine

Presentation: pbxt-uc-2008.pdf
Videos: Part 1/7, Part 2/7, Part 3/7, Part 4/7, Part 5/7, Part 6/7, …

I've seen some posts on our forums and comments on our website telling us that the Cluster Storage Engine is missing. Yes, it's not anymore in MySQL 5.1.24-rc and later. It has been pulled out to go into a different distribution.
Reading the ChangeLog is a good thing!

People frequently ask me if the fact we keep information public can hurt our consulting business ? Lets keep aside for the moment amount of new business publishing this information brings to us but think it also have significant negative effect because people find information on MySQL Performance Blog and use it instead of purchasing our services ?

Sure they do. There are people searching for advice finding it on MySQL Performance Blog and so they do not need to purchase any commercial consulting. However these people are not likely clients on the first place - if not our blog they would find information in MySQL Manual or on thousands of other sites, or may be they would read some books.

Seriously speaking for vast majority of the problems you can run into there is information out there - so you …

The video of one of my three sessions, "Optimizing MySQL and InnoDB on Solaris 10 for World's Largest Photo Blogging Community", presented at MySQL Conference & Expo 2008 has been uploaded by Sheeri. I am very thankful to her for doing all the hard work and making it available.

There are a few slides that were edited out of video because of reasons beyond my control. However, you should still be able to enjoy most of the video.

There is one point related to this video that I would like to make: Based on my particular experience I was leading to believe that Solaris 10 Kernel had the same …

The EMEA webinar on Performance and Tuning last week (22 Apr 2008) was a great success! Great attendance, lots of questions and an  amazing job from Henrik Ingo and Erik Granstrom!
I have posted the recording of the webinar here and the slides here - unfortunately we could not post the material on our MySQL website, since it's pretty crowded now with P&T docs.
Here is the Q&A session:

Q from Ketil: I have a DB that is "read many, write few", and will remain relatively small (less than RAM). How do I tune a InnoDB MySQL-database for optimal query performance? There are 8 hasAndBelongsToMany relations to categories and a few 100 000 …

Some time ago a few people lamented the demise of The Swag Report, a cool idea by Mike Hillyer... people would take photos of the swag they collect at conferences and other events, and post it to the site with some comment/rating.

At the 2008 MySQL conference we caught up, and I mentioned that I'd be happy to help revive it. It's not the world's next big business venture ;-) but really just a bit of fun and sometimes informative. It just seemed like a pity that it disappeared.

So now, it's baaack. Very simple setup right now, you just upload your photos to Flickr, add the comment with rating you want, and click on the "add to group" button for the swagreport group. You'll need to join the group first, which is of course free.
The site …

I just made my reservations to attend Velocity Conference in Burlingame, CA. Velocity is a new two day conference being organized by O'Reilly. I was happy to learn at Lunch today that one of my good friends from CafeMom will also be attending. Over at Facebook I see Don McAskill has RSVP'd for the event as well.

Jesse Robbins, chair for Velocity conference graciously provided a 20% discount coupon as a comment on my blog post.

The early registration is about to end, but I find it really interesting that many slots still mention TBC (to be confirmed). I would have expected the schedule to …

If you've missed our presentations on MySQL Users Conference you can catch up now by taking a look at the slides, which are now published in presentations section of our company web site. You can also find a lot of old presentations in the same location.

Enjoy !

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