Josh, Thank you for the interesting report from the MySQL User's Conference. I especially liked the t-shirt that Monty's wearing in the picture in the linked blog entry, "my free software runs your company." nice :-)
Thanks, Bradley On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Josh Sled <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (My apologies for not finalizing either the meeting or making the RMS talk > last week; I was out at the MySQL User's Conference > <http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2008/public/content/home> … though not exactly > as > a user — I actually started working at MySQL just about a month ago. :) > > > The 2008 MySQL User's Conference was quite amazing, with some 2000 people > in > attendance. With 8 options for each of the 6 slots for each of the 3 key > conference days ... there was a lot of interesting content. > > While the Monday of the conference did have a full 8 hours of tutorials, I > was elsewhere in meetings. > > Tuesday started off with a rather nice keynote from Mårten Mickos, the now > Senior VP of the Database Group at Sun Microsystems, about the State of > MySQL, followed by another great keynote from Jonathan Schwartz about Sun > and > Sun's vision for Open Source and MySQL, including the great annecdote at > <http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/freedom_s_choice>. I was really > looking > forward to the keynote following that from Werner Vogels of Amazon, but it > was unbalanced and fluffy. > > As I said above, there were ~48 sessions a day, so I can only talk briefly > about some of the highlights: > > - Multi-terabyte MySQL Data Warehouses? Absolutely! > > - This was mostly a marketing presentation from InfoBright, but their new > storage engine does sound novel and fantastic for handling very large > datasets with warehousing-type workloads. > > - Best Practices for Database Administrators > > - The presenter is a consultant who is charismatic and energetic. The > content is mostly well-known stuff about database admin and, really, > technical job stuff in general, but the presentation was good and > covered > a lot of ground. > > - I understand that the Wednesday morning keynote from Rick Falkvinge of > the > Swedish Pirate Party was quite good. > > - Replication Tips and Tricks > > - Some nifty fine-grained tips to deal with various replication > scenarios. > If you do replication (in mysql or otherwise), you should see the > slides > online. > > - Database Integrity Protection with MySQL and DRBD > > - drbd is the distributed replicated block device. It is a block device > (e.g. hard disk) that is synchronously replicated to another block > device, perhaps over a network. Operating at such a low level, it can > support HA/failover for a wide variety of applications, including > MySQL, > Samba, email, &c. Definitely worth checking out. > > - Developing INFORMATION_SCHEMA plugins > > - "SELECT * FROM os_disk_stats WHERE utilization > 90" Sure! > Whatever you can think up or access in code can be pretty easily mapped > into an INFORMATION_SCHEMA table via plugins. > > - Architecture of Maria: A New Storage Engine with a Transactional Design > > - Maria is intended to be a backwards-compatible replacement for MyISAM, > with the features of InnoDB (transactions!) but with the goodies that > we > love MyISAM for (speed!). Early versions are available, though it's a > multi-year roadmap. > > - One of Thursday morning's keynotes entitled "Who is the Dick on My > Site?" > was roundly agreed to be one of the funniest ever. > > - DTrace and MySQL > > - There wasn't a whole lot of MySQL in this, but DTrace is awesome. > > The conference was grand, and next year should be even bigger and better. > Most of the conference presentations are online, and if you need to get in > touch with any of the participants, I may be able to help. Of course, if > you're looking for MySQL support, I can happily get you in touch with one > of > my colleagues in Support or Sales. :) > > -- > ...jsled > http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
