We (me and Michelle) arrived late Sunday night in Santa Clara to attend the MySQL Conference and already it's so much fun that I haven't been blogging at all.

Yesterday night we had dinner with some friends including Mark Atwood, Marc Simony, Ronald Bradford, Sheeri Kritzer, Mr and Mrs. Cole, Eric Bergen, Pascal and Christine.

Sheeri also got an award for being the top community advocate.

Marten and Guy Kawasaki's keynotes were very interesting. Ronald has done a good job of jotting the interesting points from Guy Kawasaki's keynote.

More to follow...

So, I asked in #mysql on feenode about an IRC channel for the 2007 MySQL Conference.  Some folks said that #mysqluc had been used before.  So, we started it.  If you wanna join, hop in.  If you hear of a more official channel, drop by and let us know.

First day's over — *phew*

I got to meet a lot of nice people, some of which I haven't seen in years (Heya Lukas and Damien S. :-) and it was great. There was a lot to talk about during the breaks and at dinner so it practically didn't get boring for a solid 12 hours today. I expect 14 to 16 of that tomorrow, maybe more.

The first tutorial I went to was Jeremy's and Eric's MySQL Scaling and High Availability. There are already two decent summaries up, so I won't repeat what written there. I just want to emphasize …

For those of you attending my JDBC 4.0 and MySQL session, you can find the sample code I'll be using in the Connector/J subversion repository

http://svn.mysql.com/svnpublic/connector-j/trunk/jdbc-4-0-examples/

I'll have it up on the projector, but it's often easier to follow along locally.

For those of you attending my JDBC 4.0 and MySQL session, you can find the sample code I'll be using in the Connector/J subversion repository

http://svn.mysql.com/svnpublic/connector-j/trunk/jdbc-4-0-examples/

I'll have it up on the projector, but it's often easier to follow along locally.

For those of you attending my JDBC 4.0 and MySQL session, you can find the sample code I'll be using in the Connector/J subversion repository

http://svn.mysql.com/svnpublic/connector-j/trunk/jdbc-4-0-examples/

I'll have it up on the projector, but it's often easier to follow along locally.

We spent today working on the last minute details for the mySQL conference. The important things: T shirts, pens, mugs, etc….

Seriously, I’m pretty excited about the conference. I think conferences have transmogrified since the days of Interop and Internet World ‘97-’00 and many have reemerged as events actually worth going to.

Back before the Internet, most people would go to conferences to actually learn about new products, trends, etc. Companies typically sent their best developers and product managers to meet with attendees. But sometime around ‘98, many attendees learned that they could find all the info they needed on the net and didn’t have to send anyone. Attendance dropped, and exhibitors stopped sending their best and brightest. The attendees at subsequent conferences were greeted by nit wits that didn’t know anything and attendance dropped further. The …

In my first day at the MySQL Conference and Expo 2007, I attended the Scaling and High Availability Architectures tutorial in the morning, and Real-world MySQL Performance Tuning in the afternoon. This is a brief article on each session's Big Ideas, and a short blurb about the conference overall so far.

I'll also be involved in at least three sessions at the conference, and I describe them.

If you're interested in short overviews of the sessions I attend, keep watching for my articles. I will give you each session's major ideas instead of writing stream-of-thought notes. You can look at the presenter's slides for more.

Day 0 (tutorials), post 2. (I’m still working on the versioning thing — bear with me.) I snuck into the 5.1 new features session halfway through but definitely well worth it. Lots of new features coming out in 5.1 though Brian Aker admits some of them are not quite production-ready yet, so don’t go [...]

MySQL AB today announced the launch of a new business partner program designed to make it easier for resellers, software vendors, hardware companies, and IT service providers to offer their database-related solutions to the millions of MySQL users worldwide.

A wide range of companies have announced plans to join the MECA program, including: Alfresco, AxisOS, BakBone, BitRock, CodeGear, Continuent, Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, Embarcadero, FileMaker, GoldenGate Software, Hewlett-Packard, Infobright, Ingram Micro Inc., JasperSoft, Logicworks, NetApp, NitroSecurity, Oracle/Innobase, Pentaho, PremiumSoft, Red Hat, RippleTech, SugarCRM, Solid, Sun Microsystems, Talend, Tandem-Forum, Unisys, Webyog and Zmanda.