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 …

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 …

At the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo, Ronald Bradford delivered "The Top 20 Design Tips for Enterprise Data Architects". See the slides on the Forge at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008ThursdayNotes#Top_20_DB_Design_Tips_Every_Architect_Needs_to_Know

At the 2008 MySQL Conference and Expo, there was a panel discussion on "Addressing Challenges of Data Warehousing - a Panel Discussion" including:

Robin Schumacher (Sun/MySQL) (moderator)

Brian Miezejewski (MySQL), Charles Hooper (Pro Relational Systems), Paul Whittington (NitroSecurity, Inc.), Raj Cherabuddi (Kickfire), Victoria Eastwood (InfoBright Inc.)

At the 2008 MySQL User Conference and Expo, Farhan Mashraqi spoke about "Optimizing MySQL and InnoDB on Solaris 10 for World's Largest Photo Blogging Community". Download the slides, see people's notes, and more on the MySQL Forge Wiki at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008ThursdayNotes#Optimizing_MySQL_and_InnoDB_on_Solaris_10_for_World.27s_Largest_Photo_Blogging_Community

At the 2008 MySQL User Conference and Expo, Baron Schwartz spoke on "The MySQL Query Cache". Download the slides, see people's notes, and more on the MySQL Forge Wiki at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008WednesdayNotes#The_MySQL_Query_Cache

At the 2008 MySQL User Conference and Expo, Phil Hildebrand spoke on "Applied Partitioning and Scaling Your Database System". Download the slides, see people's notes, and more on the MySQL Forge Wiki at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008WednesdayNotes#Applied_Partitioning_and_Scaling_Your_Database_System.

At the 2008 MySQL User Conference and Expo, Robert Hodges spoke on "Portable Scale-out Benchmarks for MySQL". Download slides and see links to blog postings at the MySQL Forge Wiki at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008WednesdayNotes#Portable_Scale-out_Benchmarks_for_MySQL

At the 2008 MySQL User Conference and Expo, Rick Falkvinge of the Swedish Pirate Party delivered a keynote on "Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties".

At the 2008 MySQL User Conference and Expo, Domas Mituzas gave a workshop on "Practical MySQL for Web Applications".