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Selena’s thoughts on a hacker’s cooperative

Selena Deckelmann has posted some ideas about a “hacker’s cooperative” for PostgreSQL.

UC2009: How I Used Query Analysis to Speed up My Applications

The presentation slides for my Query Analysis talk here at the users conference are now available:

How I Used Query Analysis to Speed up My Applications

I’ll sort out the scripts and bits and pieces I use once I get back to the office next week, for those people waiting for that material.

UC2009: On the Starting Blocks

Despite an annoying 3 hour flight delay from Heathrow (and no, I wasn’t connecting there, I was leaving from there), I’m here in San Francisco and Santa Clara again ready for the MySQL User Conference 2009.

I obviously have my four presentations to get through, and there will be plenty of other stuff going on at the conference both in terms of other presentations, the show floor, the booths, and the Birds of a Feather sessions (which are terrific fun).

But mostly, I see the UC2009 as the best opportunity to meet up with both other MySQL/Sun people, our customers, and the community at large and talk about the thing we are all passionate about – MySQL and the technologies surrounding it.

And I don’t care if that sounds goofy. Nothing beats talking to face to face with like minded individuals, and one thing that MySQL – and Sun – seems to engender is an extreme passion about the products we deliver that I don’t …

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MySQL Conf 2009 Preview: Scalability and HA Tutorial

Like most people, and with just over a week to go before the conference, I’m putting the finishing touchs on my various presentations.

First up for me, on Monday afternoon, is my tutorial: Scale Up, Scale Out, and High Availability: Solutions and Combinations.

What will be doing?

Very simply: Looking at every potential solution for maximum scalability and availability for your database environment.

If you are attending, be prepared to:

  • Expand your mind as we think about scaling up.
  • Expand your horizons as we think about scaling out.
  • Divide and conquer, as we think about high-availability.

We’re not not hands on in this session – but I will expect you to be brains on!

Open-source database developer mailing lists

What’s going on at your favorite open-source database developer mailing list? Non-scientific memory of what I’ve been seeing lately:

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Towards more diversity of speakers at MySQL Conference and Expo

We (Percona) just announced our Percona Performance Conference, and I wanted to tell you a little more about what we hope to accomplish with this conference. Let me show you some simple math that anyone can do.

There’s a handy iCal download of the conference schedule on the conference website. iCal is a plain [...]

Does MySQL really have an open-source business model?

I’ve been thinking about the business of what’s variously come to be called commercial open-source and enterprise open-source. I’m interested in the gestalt — the product, development processes, marketing, licensing and so on.

MySQL has tried many different ways to earn money. These include dual licensing, support subscriptions, a knowledgebase, consulting, an Enterprise/Community split, [...]

Is MySQL 5.1 really a better 5.0?

With all the furor over MySQL 5.1 GA, its release schedule, its quality, etc etc I think a fundamental claim is being left un-examined. Lots of people are saying that if you leave out the new features in 5.1 and look only at the features that existed in 5.0, it’s better quality.

The implication is [...]

MySQL on Solaris Best Practices Presentation

A couple of weeks ago I was at the MySQL European Customer Conference in London, where I was presenting my talk on deploying MySQL on Solaris best practices. You can download a copy of the presentation here: MySQL on Solaris Best Practices.

I cover both choosing the best release version, using tricks like mtmalloc (the threaded malloc library) before moving on to UFS and ZFS tricks, using DTrace and MySQL Cluster and Sun Cluster.

MySQL Documentation Myths

There are a few myths surrounding the MySQL documentation and how it works, and I thought I’d try and dispel some of those myths if I can. If you have any more questions or misunderstandings you want clarified, let me know.

Myth:

MySQL Documentation is written by the developers.

Reality

MySQL Documentation is written by a dedicated team of writers with help and input from the developers. There are four main writers, Paul DuBois, Tony Bedford, Jon Stephens, and MC Brown (me!), plus our Team Lead, Stefan Hinz.

All the documentation staff are employed full time for the sole purpose of writing documentation. Sure, some of us get involved in other things too, but that’s basically the nature of the job. Some of us simply cannot help ourselves.

Myth

Docs team members are just writers and have no technical expertise.

Reality

It’s …

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