MySQL University sessions are starting again after the winter break. This Thursday, we're beginning with Tim Cook's presentation on low-level locking in mysqld and InnoDB – the good, the bad, and the ugly. Tim works in the Performance and Applications Engineering department at Sun Microsystems. Expect to get some deep insights into the inner workings of the MySQL Server and InnoDB.
Tim's based in California, so note that his session will start rather late for Europeans.
For MySQL University sessions, point your browser to this page. You need a browser with a
working Flash plugin. You may register for a Dimdim account, but
you don't have to.
MySQL University is a free educational online program for engineers/developers. MySQL University sessions are open to anyone, not just Sun employees. Sessions are recorded (slides and audio), so if you can't attend the live session you can look at the recording anytime after the session.
Here's the schedule for the upcoming weeks:
| January 15, 2009 | 17:00 UTC / 9am PDT (Pacific) / 11am CST (Central) / 12am EST (Eastern) / 17:00 GMT (London) / 18:00 CET (Berlin) / 20:00 MDT (Moscow) | Low-Level Locking in mysqld and InnoDB - the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | Tim Cook |
| January 22, 2009 | 08:00 UTC / 8:00 GMT / 9:00 CET / 11:00 MDT (Moscow) / 13:30 IST (India) / 16:00 CST (Beijing) / 17:00 JST (Tokyo) / 19:00 EDT (Melbourne) | Scalability by Design - Coding for Systems With Large CPU Counts | Richard Smith |
| January 29, 2009 | 16:00 UTC / 8am PDT (Pacific) / 10am CST (Central) / 11am EST (Eastern) / 16:00 GMT (London) / 17:00 CET (Berlin) / 19:00 MDT (Moscow) | Scalability Challenges in an InnoDB-based Replication Environment | David Lutz |
| February 5, 2009 | 08:00 UTC / 8:00 GMT / 9:00 CET / 11:00 MDT (Moscow) / 13:30 IST (India) / 16:00 CST (Beijing) / 17:00 JST (Tokyo) / 19:00 EDT (Melbourne) | MySQL Performance and Scalability Project - Issues and Opportunities | Allan Packer |
| February 12, 2008 | 14:00 UTC / 8am CST (Central) / 9am EST (Eastern) / 14:00 GMT / 15:00 CET / 17:00 MDT (Moscow) | Using DTrace with MySQL | MC Brown |
| February 19, 2009 | 14:00 UTC / 8am CST (Central) / 9am EST (Eastern) / 14:00 GMT / 15:00 CET / 17:00 MDT (Moscow) | Developing MySQL on Solaris | MC Brown & Trond Norbye |
| February 26, 2009 | 14:00 UTC / 8am CST (Central) / 9am EST (Eastern) / 14:00 GMT / 15:00 CET / 17:00 MDT (Moscow) | Backing up MySQL using file system snapshots | Lenz Grimmer |
| March 5, 2009 | 14:00 UTC / 8am CST (Central) / 9am EST (Eastern) / 14:00 GMT / 15:00 CET / 17:00 MDT (Moscow) | Good Coding Style | Konstantin Osipov |
| March 12, 2009 | 14:00 UTC / 8am CST (Central) / 9am EST (Eastern) / 14:00 GMT / 15:00 CET / 17:00 MDT (Moscow) | MySQL and ZFS | MC Brown |
The session address (Dimdim URL) for all sessions is:
http://webmeeting.dimdim.com/portal/JoinForm.action?confKey=mysqluniversity
Please bookmark this address, since it will remain valid for all
future MySQL University sessions. Remember, though, that the
meeting room will open only 15 minutes before the session
starts.
Dimdim is the conferencing system we're using for MySQL University sessions. It provides integrated voice streaming, chat, whiteboard, session recording (slides and voice), and more. All you need to do to attend MySQL University sessions is point your browser to the address given above.
All MySQL University sessions are recorded, that is, slides and voice can be viewed as a Flash file (.flv). You can find those recordings on the respective MySQL University session pages which are listed on the MySQL University home page: