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Time to vote for MySQL sessions at FOSDEM

Январь 3rd, 2012
Fosdem 2012 infoThere is a room dedicated to MySQL at FOSDEM 2012. (Thanks to @lefred for organizing).The CfP has received 37 submissions, but there will be time slots only for 12 to 15 talks. So now it's up to the community. If you want to attend a particular talk, you should vote for it.Like in previous years, the selection of the talks is public. You can see the list of the proposals, with the instructions, which I repeat here.You can vote either publicly, using Twitter, or privately, by sending an email. Each talk proposal will be referred by the number immediately after the title in this page. This number indicates the order in which the proposals were received. In public, you should send a tweet to @opensqlcamp, indicating a maximum of 12 talks that you would like to see, in the order you like them. e.g. "@opensqlcamp #FOSDEM2012 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12 http://bit.ly/mysql_fosdem_2012" (adding the link will help others to find the page.In private, by email at mysqlfriends AT gmail DOT com, using the same method used for Twitter. Maximum 12 talks, in the order of your preference.In both cases, votes for your preferences will result in 1 point for each talk. In case of equal voting, we will assign 12 points to the first in the list, 11 to the second, and so on. We'll do the tally, and choose the most popular ones.Anonymous votes either by Twitter or email won't be counted. If you want your vote to count, make sure your twitter account has a recognized name (or known nick) on it. If your email address doesn't spell your name, please sign the message with your real one.DEADLINE: Your votes must be entered by January 8th, 2011.

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PalominoDB Percona Live: London Slides are up!

Октябрь 27th, 2011

 

Percona Live: London was a rousing success for PalominoDB.  I was sad that I could not attend, but I got a few people who sent "hellos" to me via my coworkers.  But on to the most important stuff -- slides from our presentations are online!

René Cannao spoke about MySQL Backup and Recovery Tools and Techniques (description) slides (PDF)

 

Jonathan delivered a 3-hour tutorial about Advanced MySQL Scaling Strategies for Developers (description) slides (PDF)

Enjoy!


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PalominoDB at PerconaLive

Октябрь 12th, 2011

PalominoDB is very excited about our participation in the upcoming PerconaLive conference in London.  We'll have two of our European staff presenting.  On Monday, Jonathan Levin will be doing a tutorial on Advanced MySQL Scaling Strategies for Developers, and on Tuesday Rene Cannao will be presenting on MySQL Backup and Recovery Tools and Techniques.  Rene and Jonathan are two of our newer team members, and represent an exciting growth in staff outside of the US; Jonathan being in the UK and Rene being in Malta.  I know I'm thrilled to get out to London to meet a lot of new folks in our community.

We did get a chance to present at PerconaLive in NYC this year as well, which was quite a lot of fun, and the positive reception Sheeri's session got was gratifying.  Percona has become a huge part of our community and has provided great value in their information share, tools, services and now conferences - including the MySQL Conference & Expo 2012.  Having been involved in professional MySQL consulting and remote support for four years has been quite the adventure, and the fact that so many companies find space to create, share and prosper only shows the viability of open source software and the communities behind it.  

I know we at PalominoDB are quite proud to share space with companies such as Pythian, Blue Gecko, SkySQL and, of course, Percona. We are proud to support open source solutions across the board, and are even more excited to have grown to a place where we have the resources to contribute back to them, to non-profits and to the growth of our clients and every person on our team.  Here's to an exciting and brilliant future, and a great conference!


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Securing MySQL and How to Be a Rock Star DBA Presentation Slides

Октябрь 5th, 2011

For those who missed my presentations at Oracle OpenWorld (or if you caught it but want the slides) - PDF slide decks are online:

 

Securing MySQL (IOUG)  - http://technocation.org/files/doc/MySQLSecurity2011_09.pdf

How to Be a Rockstar MySQL DBA - http://technocation.org/files/doc/2011_09_RockStar.pdf


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Securing MySQL and How to Be a Rock Star DBA Presentation Slides

Октябрь 5th, 2011

For those who missed my presentations at Oracle OpenWorld (or if you caught it but want the slides) - PDF slide decks are online:

 

Securing MySQL (IOUG)  - http://technocation.org/files/doc/MySQLSecurity2011_09.pdf

How to Be a Rockstar MySQL DBA - http://technocation.org/files/doc/2011_09_RockStar.pdf


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What Community Resources should be at Oracle OpenWorld?

Сентябрь 22nd, 2011

A short while ago I posted about the Oracle OpenWorld Schedule Matrix of MySQL sessions (in PDF and HTML formats).  We have printed up a (small) number of schedules to have on hand at the MySQL Community kiosk at the User Group Pavillion in Moscone West.

Yes, you read that correctly -- the User Group Pavillion will include a MySQL Community kiosk this year!  Sarah and I have been coordinating the effort to staff the kiosk and figure out what we need to provide.

Sadly, it's just a kiosk (same as all the other User Group organizations get), so we cannot have a ton of flyers there.  To that end, we have created a QR code that resolves to www.kimtag.com/MySQL, which is where we are putting many links.  

To that end, we'd like your help figuring out what we have missed.  In order to keep the list of links as short and relevant as possible we have put as many aggregate links as we could, for example we link to planet.mysql.com instead of individual blogs, and we are only listing the major conferences with over 500 attendees expected.  The links at www.kimtag.com/MySQL as of the time of this blog writing are:

- MySQL sessions at OOW

- Planet MySQL

- dev.mysql.com (docs, etc)

- mysql.com

- MySQL User Groups (forge.mysql.com list) - so if you have a user group, make sure to update the forge page!

- Percona Live 2012 Conference & Expo

- MySQL videos on YouTube

- IOUG MySQL Council

- OurSQL Podcast Blog

- OurSQL iTunes link

- MySQL Experts podcast

- Book: MySQL Administrator's bible*

- Book: High Performance MySQL

- Book: Expert PHP/MySQL

- Book: MySQL High Availability

 

If you think of a link we should put on there, please comment below.

 

For what it's worth, the paper we will have will be:

- The current day's schedule

- A flyer about Percona Live 2012 MySQL Conference & Expo

- A poster of the QR code and a few small paper slips with the QR code

- IOUG MySQL Council business cards

And even that is stretching it, as there will be a laptop at the kiosk provided by Oracle and the kiosk is 24 inches x 24 inches, about 61 centimeters x 61 centimeters.
* Note that I have ordered the books with the MySQL Administrator's Bible first because it's for beginner/intermediate users, whereas High Performance MySQL is for intermediate/advanced users.

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Videos from OSCon Data and OSCon 2011

Сентябрь 22nd, 2011

There are 28 videos, all linked below, on the OSCon and OSCon data 2011 playlist that I have put online for free (with permission from the presenters and O'Reilly).  O'Reilly videos are available from the conference proceedings website.  Probably the best way to find all the videos in one place is to search for the 'oscon' tag on YouTube.

How do I choose what talks to film?  Well, to make it easiest on me, I choose what room to film, and then all I have to do is change the tapes every session.  This minimizes (but not completely eliminates) techical issues.  For OSCon Data it was simple - there were 5 rooms, O'Reilly was professionally recording one room, another room was "Products and Services", which left 3 rooms -- and I had 3 video cameras*.
Following is the list of videos I took, in alphabetical order.  Each link takes you to the YouTube page, which shows the presenters, description, and links to the slides (if available) and official O'Reilly Conference page:


* If there had been no technical difficulties whatsoever, there would be 38 videos on this list - 2 from OSCon (which are on the list) and 36 from OSCon data.  Unfortunately, 10 videos did not come out - either I missed the tape change, the audio could not be heard, or permission was not given by the presenters.  Note that in the latter case, presenters just never responded -- I did not have one presenter withhold permisson, though a few have not responded to my request for permission.


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Final Videos of Open DB Camp Online:

Август 4th, 2011

The final videos from Open DB Camp back in May in Sardinia, Italy are now online.  The full matrix of sessions, videos and slides can be found on the schedule page.

Hands on JDBC by Sandro Pinna - video

"MySQL Plugins, What are They? How you can use them to do wonders" by Sergei Golubchek of MariaDB - video

The State of Open Source Databases by Kaj Arnö of SkySQL - video

Coming soon, videos from OSCon Data!


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Upcoming Free IOUG Webinar: Securing MySQL

Август 4th, 2011

Next week I will give a free IOUG webinar on Securing MySQL on Wednesday, August 10, 2011 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CDT (17:00 GMT):

Securing MySQL is extremely important, but often is not done properly. I will explain the different ways to secure MySQL. In addition to securing users and privileges, file permissions and encrypted connectivity will be discussed. The MySQL server options that contribute to MySQL security will be pointed out, along with tips for eliminating unsecure external scripts. For those who want more auditing capabilities, this session will explain how to see all login attempts (successful and not) and how to lock out accounts with repeated failed logins. The session will conclude with guidelines about how to create security policies for your organization.

To register for this webinar, visit https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/979260992.  


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More Videos from Open DB Camp

Август 2nd, 2011

I have gotten to uploading more of the videos from Open DB camp in Sardinia, Italy back in May:

Henrik Ingo speaks about Xtrabackup Manager - video

Linas Virbalas speaks about "Flexible Replication: MySQL -> PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL to MySQL, PostgreSQL to PostgreSQL" - video - slideshare slides

MySQL to MongoDB replication (hackfest results) - video 

Robert Hodges of Continuent speaks about Multi-Master Replication: Problems, Solutions and Arguments - video

There are a few more videos from Open DB Camp to put up, then I start to put up the content from OSCon Data!


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