I am happy to announce that my MySQL Dev Zone interview with David Axmark just went live - if you are curious to hear a few stories about how David and Monty started this whole thing more than 10 years ago, make sure to spend a few minutes and read it here!

I gave a tutorial at OSCON last week on tuning MySQL queries, the EXPLAIN statement, the optimizer, and benchmarking. I've gone ahead and put the tutorial materials online now:

• The workbook (PDF)
• Slide Deck (OpenOffice Impress)
• Slide Deck (PDF)

Note that the zip and tarballs noted in the tutorial workbook will be up once thewench is cleaned up and packaged in with the rest of the materials.

Some say Sun is as cool as OSCon (if not cooler) because, among most companies that support OSCon, only Sun can produce truly underground notes on OSCon.

David Van Couvering reviews Mike Olson's comments about his keynote at OSCon and pontificates about whether the value of Open Source could be limited to the collaboration it fosters. David aptly notes that

Open source and an open community gives you the assurance that the technology you are depending on is not going to be discontinued or put into "maintenance mode," it won't be acquired by someone who you would rather not do business with, and it won't be used as leverage against you to extract money or modify your behavior.

By way of further review, David contrasts MySQL as an Open Source project to …

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In this less technical episode we interview Paul Vallee, where he explains in depth about the Pythian Group.

Special thanks to folks who have linked to the podcast:
WebDevRadio
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Episode 34, July 9th, in which Michael mentions OurSQL and hopes I haven’t “gone dark”. Nope! http://www.webdevradio.com/index.php?id=50

Kristina Hadges, a web designer, linked to the podcast
http://www.nineofnine.com/resources

Feature:

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http://www.pythian.com

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Using MySQL As Active DBMS for Monitoring Applications ? Jacob Nikom.

Jacob presented this as a special preview at the April 2007 Boston MySQL User Group, and then presented it at the 2007 MySQL Users Conference and Expo.
The last in the ?better late than never? series?.

Using MySQL As Active DBMS for Monitoring Applications — Jacob Nikom.

Jacob presented this as a special preview at the April 2007 Boston MySQL User Group, and then presented it at the 2007 MySQL Users Conference and Expo.

The last in the “better late than never” series….

Download from http://www.technocation.org/videos/2007_04BostonUserGroup.wmv
or view right here:

I finally found a time to publish Landscape of Transactional Storage Engines slides on MySQL Presentations page , this is the talk which we gave on OSCON 2007 and which talks about current state behavior and performance properties of Innodb, Falcon, PBXT and SolidDB Storage Engines.

Not sure who it was, but someone recorded all the Perl Lightning Talks at OSCON. Neat!

Vani's 5 minute version of her longer YUI CSS talk is a little hard to follow because she was crazy enough to do most of it as a live demo, so lookup the slides and listen to the youtube thing at the same time!

My mini-talk on qpsmtpd is also up (slides here). Woah - I speak fast. I'll excuse myself with a story about the 5 minute limit.

Tim …

Not sure who it was, but someone recorded all the Perl Lightning Talks at OSCON. Neat!

Vani's 5 minute version of her longer YUI CSS talk is a little hard to follow because she was crazy enough to do most of it as a live demo, so lookup the slides and listen to the youtube thing at the same time!

My mini-talk on qpsmtpd is also up (slides here). Woah - I speak fast. I'll excuse myself with a story about the 5 minute limit.

Tim …