Conferences

At the 2008 MySQL User Conference and Expo, Eric Herman and Antony Curtis spoke about "External Language Stored Procedures". Download the slides, see people's notes, and more on the MySQL Forge Wiki at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008ThursdayNotes#External_Language_Stored_Procedures

At the 2008 MySQL User Conference and Expo, Ann Harrison and Kevin Lewis spoke about "Falcon for Innodb Users". Download the slides, see people's notes, and more on the MySQL Forge Wiki at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008WednesdayNotes#Falcon_for_InnoDB_Users

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, Monty Widenius spoke on "Architecture of Maria: A New Storage Engine with a Transactional Design ". Download the slides, see people's notes, and more on the MySQL Forge Wiki at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008WednesdayNotes#Architecture_of_Maria:_A_New_Storage_Engine_with_a_Transactional_Design

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.

Robert Hodges of Continuent presents "Portabe Scaleout Benchmarks for MySQL" at the 2008 MySQL User Conference and Expo. (video is embedded at the bottom of this post).

Slides are at http://assets.en.oreilly.com/1/event/2/Portable%20Scale-out%20Benchmarks%20for%20MySQL%20Presentation.pdf

Database scale-out architectures promise tremendous capacity increases simply by adding hardware. There are, however, significant differences depending on the scale-out approach you choose. This talk presents a new set of open source benchmarking tools called Bristlecone (http://bristlecone.continuent.org) that allow any user with access to Java to set up and start to run performance benchmarks in a few minutes.

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, Rick Falkvinge of the Swedish Pirate Party delivered a keynote on "Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties".

At the 2008 MySQL User Conference and Expo, Brian Miezejewski gave a workshop on "Securing MySQL for a Security Audit".

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

At the 2008 MySQL Users Conference and Expo, Sebastian Bergmann presented "Video: Testing PHP/MySQL Applications with PHPUnit/DbUnit". See all the blog posts others have written about the tutorial from the Forge Wiki at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008TuesdayNotes#Testing_PHP.2FMySQL_Applications_with_PHPUnit.2FDbUnit.

At the 2008 MySQL Users Conference and Expo, Werner Vogels of Amazon.com delivered a keynote called "A Head in the Cloud -- The Power of Infrastructure as a Service". See all the blog posts others have written about the tutorial from the Forge Wiki at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008TuesdayNotes#A_Head_in_the_Cloud_-_The_Power_of_Infrastructure_as_a_Service.

At the 2008 MySQL Users Conference and Expo, Mårten Mickos handed out the 2008 awards for Application, Partner and Community Members of the year See all the blog posts others have written about the tutorial from the Forge Wiki at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008TuesdayNotes#State_of_MySQL.

At the 2008 MySQL Users Conference and Expo, Mårten Mickos delivered the "State of the Dolphin Keynote". See all the blog posts others have written about the tutorial from the Forge Wiki at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008TuesdayNotes#State_of_MySQL.

At the 2008 MySQL Users Conference and Expo, Lars Thalmann and Mats Kindahl gave a tutorial on replication. Download the slides and see blog posts others have written about the tutorial from the Forge Wiki at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLConf2008MondayNotes#MySQL_Replication_Tutorial. If you'd like to download the WMV video file in parts, here's a link to: Part 1, 175.27 Mb and Part 2, 172.42 Mb