I cannot recall any significant moment of the conferences in 2002
and 2003 (simply because I was not there) but…
In 2005 we had MySQL 5. Peter Zaitsev was still working in the
benchmark team for MySQL AB. His presentation on InnoDB
performance and tuning was enlighting for many.
In 2006 we discovered the Pluggable Storage Engine API. Jim
Starkey joined MySQL AB and we announced Falcon. [A brighter
note,] I have been so lucky to meet Paul McCullagh the day before
the Conference. Paul is one of the nicest and most brilliant
persons I have ever met.
2007 was all around 5.1. We announced the roadmap for 6.0 and our
online cross engine backup.
In 2008 we were Sun and for the first time Marten Mickos left his
place on stage of the UC to Jonathan Schwartz.
In 2009 we had the Oracle announcement and the Percona
Conference. You may describe the conference in many way, it
certainly wasn't boring!
And now, 2010. Another User Conference with tremendous content.
It's an incredible occasion to learn from the key players at
MySQL and in the MySQL ecosystem.
I will present at the User Conference. For once, I am back to my
roots, i.e. Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence. DW
projects filled my working life from 1994 until 2005.
Do not expect any elegant fragment of C code that may improve the
performance of your DB 100x (or it may crash all your servers).
You'll see just real life ideas and solutions on how to use MySQL
in Data Warehousing and in a typical (is there one really?)
Business Intelligence environment. And perhaps you have already
implemented something similar, or something that suits you
better, but hey, sharing is the main point here.
This presentation at the UC is just the beginning of a series.
More to come, since this is a hot topic and users are asking more
and more from MySQL in this sector. They want to use MySQL in BI
in many, many ways. Some are simply looking for a reporting
platform - you replicate your data and there you, you execute
some reports. Others have more specific needs and they must
transform their data into information, in a typical BI style.
Some others are Enterprises with large data warehouses and they
see MySQL as the perfect data mart engine. These topics and more
in my presentation at the UC.
If you are part of the local London MySQL group and you can't
travel to CA, don't worry, we will a series of meetups and they
are likely to be recorded and presented in other cities as
well.
In any case, I hope to see you at the UC. Check the message board
for some Euro spots!
Mar
25
2010