Monthly Archives: October 2011

OurSQL Episode 63: Snowing Already?

Posted on October 29, 2011 by podcast

This week, Gerry Narvaja guest hosts and we talk about star and snowflake schemas, as a follow-up to last week’s podcast on Data Warehousing 101.

News
FOSDEM has a call for papers open until Sunday, November 6th. FOSDEM is one of the largest free and non-commercial open source events, taking place in Brussels, Belgium on February 4th and 5th. There will be a Developer’s room that’s near and dear to our hearts called “MySQL, MariaDB and friends”.

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OurSQL Episode 62: Data Warehousing 101

Posted on October 21, 2011 by sheeri

Josh Berkus of PostgreSQL Experts spoke at OS Bridge this summer on Data Warehousing 101:
Everything you never wanted to know about big databases but were forced to find out anyway (http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/data-warehousing-101-slides-… Continue reading →

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OurSQL Episode 61: Security Blankets, Part 2

Posted on October 14, 2011 by sheeri

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:
Call for papers for Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo 2012 is open! They opened it on … Continue reading →

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OurSQL Episode 60: Charming Data

Posted on October 12, 2011 by sheeri

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 59: Security Blankets, Part 1

Posted on October 4, 2011 by sheeri

This week, we talk about MySQL security.
News/Feedback
Collaborate Call for papers is open until Sunday October 14th – http://events.ioug.org/p/cm/ld/fid=15
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