Category Archives: Conferences

OurSQL Episode 61: Security Blankets, Part 2

We go over the open calls for papers, upcoming conferences, conversations with Oracle, and finish up our 2-part series on MySQL security.
Calls for papers:
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OurSQL Episode 60: Charming Data

This week we talk with Giuseppe Maxia (pronouncing his name correctly!) about new features in Tungsten replicator, and go over a lot of news.
News:
There was a lot of news this week! There were three really big announcements at Oracle OpenWorld that r… Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 58: Opening up Oracle’s World

The main content this week is previewing Oracle OpenWorld’s MySQL sessions.
News
Call for papers for Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo 2012 is open! The call will close on Monday, December 5th. To submit a paper, first register as a speaker … Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 53: MySQL 5.6 at OSCon Data

This week we speak with Calvin Sun, the Development Manager of the InnoDB Team, and has been working on InnoDB at MySQL and Oracle for 5 years. He mentions that not only is the InnoDB team hiring, but nobody has left the InnoDB team in several years, … Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 52: Database Theory ABC

This week, we present ACID, BASE, CAP theorem and more.

At this year’s Open Source Bridge in Portland last month, Eric Redmond presented ‘A Dozen Databases in 45 minutes’. It’s really about 20 minutes of theory and 25 minutes of the dozen databases, and we present the first part, the theoretical side of things.

ACID – atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability
BASE– basically available, soft state, eventual consistency (there’s also a good article by Lewis Cunningham that explains ACID vs. BASE in the context of cloud computing.

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OurSQL Episode 51: Data Infrastructure at OSCon Data

This week, we talk about OSCon Data.
Strata (Big Data Conference) – Sept 19-23 in NYC http://strataconf.com/stratany2011 – the call for proposals is still open until July 15th.
OSCon, the Open Source Convention, is Jul 25 – Thu Jul 29th
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OurSQL Episode 48: Percona Live NYC 2011

This week we have feedback from Percona Live in NYC last Thursday. We talk with:
Chander Kant of Zmanda, talking about the fact that Zmanda Backup Recovery now officially supports the Percona patched binary of MySQL.
Barry Leung of CafeMom.com who tal… Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 45: Hackathon Success! (MySQL -> MongoDB replication)

At Open Database Camp in Sardinia last week, there was a hackfest to try to get replication working from MySQL to MongoDB. In only 2 hours and 45 minutes, a small group of hackers did it! This week I interview Flavio Percoco, the MongoDB guru on the … Continue reading

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OurSQL Episode 42: The Buzz about MySQL 5.6

This week we talk about what’s new in MySQL 5.6 and the return of labs.mysql.com. We also feature people’s reactions to the 5.6 announcement and a special song by Solomon Chang (lyrics below).

Show notes:
If you want to see it for youreslf, there is a video from the O’Reilly Conference of Tomas Ulin’s Keynote, “State of the Dolphin”.

Olav Sandstå’s blog post on index condition pushdown optimization.

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OurSQL Episode 34: Collaborating

We talk about the Collaborate conference, including comparisons to the O’Reilly MySQL conference.
Show notes:
Collaborate – http://collaborate11.ioug.org/
Sunday, April 10th through Thursday, April 14th in Orlando, Florida.
$200 off with code: MYSQ
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