Wow, just got out of a very interesting quiz show at the MySQL Users Conference which took an interesting turn.

Near the end of the quiz show, Arjen announced that the T-shirt signed by all MySQL conference speakers (including me) would be auctioned and the proceeds donated to EFF.

My highest bid was $34 at which my wife was looking at me.

Ronald and Sheeri had other plans. They kept outbidding each other for most part.

Arjen, Monty and Brian kept encouraging the audience to go higher and higher.

Sheeri was very excited once Brian …

… you’ll never have to show up again.

Overheard Arjen telling us this when the MySQL signed 10th anniversary t-shirt was going for $650. At $775, we had to go visit Kaj, and he decided that if its above $1,000, the Community Budget will shell out $800 in addition.

Jeremy Cole will do 10% of the total! Sheeri is now giving $900. She’s getting married, and she figured she doesn’t need flowers for the wedding!

But the ultimate winner, Ronald Bradford bid $1,000. Sheeri paid $900. Jeremy gets to pay 10%. Ronald got the t-shirt… They both get an entry to SHOW CONTRIBUTORS in MySQL 5.1.

All in all, the EFF should be one happy camper from all this :-)

At the MySQL User Conference - MySQL Quiz Show we were asked to Stump a MySQL Guru. Well I submitted a few questions, and the first one stumped the guru, being Jeremy Cole, and my prize was a MySQL tee-shirt.

The Question: What are the current supported languages of the GRT Environment used in the MySQL GUI products?
The Answer: Lua, C, C++, Java, Python and PHP

Joe Kottke from FeedBurner in his MySQL Conference presentation today FeedBurner: Scalable Web Applications Using MySQL and Java mentioned a novel way of extracting SQL Select Statements from a MySQL Server.

The obvious MySQL ways include SHOW [FULL] PROCESSLIST, the Slow Query Log, and the General Query Log. In 5.1 you also use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.PROCESSLIST.

Anyway, Joe mentioned he …

so he remembers

Just to add some more features of the MySQL Migration Toolkit from the MySQL Conference presentation MySQL Migration Toolkit by Mike Zinner from MySQL AB.

You can extend and modify the funcionality of the Migration toolkit with the supplied Eclipse Java project. I’ll need to download the code to write some more detailed notes, but here were a few points from Mike.

Classes are in the com.mysql.grt.modules Package Space
The main configurable classes are nameed Migration????..java and ReverseEngineer???.java with ???? being for the different Database Products

Within the Eclipse project, you can incoporate other languages. For example, ReveserEngineerMySQL Jdbc.java for example has a …

Man I'm wiped out. Have been operating on 5-6 hours of sleep a night since Sunday and it's starting to take it's toll. I should probably resist the urge to stay up hanging out with folks (and then trying to get work done after that).

I suspect there will be no problems sleeping on the red-eye flight home to Boston tomorrow night. Just one more jam-packed day to go, if I can make it through tonight's MySQL UC quiz show without falling over. With Markus, Beat, Giuseppe, Peter Z., and others on the team I think we're in good shape. Markus did a great job getting folks signed up.

I must admit that it has been …

Denial Of Sushi Attack

Woo, that was fun! I just finished "my talk":http://mysqluc.com/cs/mysqluc2006/view/e_sess/8294 half an hour ago. (update: I've updated the slides to be a page per, uh, page rather than a page per "build")

I got a couple of "that was the {best,most useful} talk at the conference so far!" comments, so that alone made it worth getting up at 5.45am to fly up here!

The slides from the talk are now on the talks page of my new shiny website that Vani put together for me.

I had about 70 slides for 45 minutes (made it in 47!) so it went pretty fast, but I really think that's a lot more fun. I am sitting in the "InnoDB: Designing and Configuring for Best …