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9:15am Tuesday, 04/21/2009
This is Not a Web App: The Evolution of a MySQL Deployment at Google
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom E
Mark Callaghan (Facebook)
The inside story of MySQL use at Google, and how this performant database is scaled. Read more.
10:00am Tuesday, 04/21/2009
Do You Believe in Magic?
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom E
Bruce Armstrong (Kickfire), Justin Lin (Mamasource)
It began as a question. Could a slice of silicon make MySQL the fastest database on the planet? Impossible, most thought. It would have to be magic. Well, call it magic or advanced technology, it's here. Join us and we'll show you how it's making customers' data warehousing limitations disappear! Read more.
10:50am Tuesday, 04/21/2009
Mother Knows Best!
Products & Services
 Location: Ballroom G
Raj Cherabuddi (Kickfire), Steve Ketchpel (Mamasource)
Mamasource has a vibrant online community with 2 million members and hundreds of millions of rows of data. Explosive growth meant we were pushing the envelope on analytics. We required dramatic improvements in query performance, scalability and cost. Find out how Kickfire's appliance proved to be the magic we needed! Read more.
11:55am Tuesday, 04/21/2009
Starring Sakila: Data Warehousing Explained, Illustrated, and Subtitled
Architecture and Technology, Business and Case Studies, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Migration
 Location: Ballroom F
Roland Bouman (XCDSQL Solutions / Strukton Rail), Matt Casters (Pentaho Corp.)
Lately there's been a lot of talk about MySQL-based business intelligence and datawarehousing. But what does it all really mean? What's behind the BI/OLAP/ETL alphabet soup, and what in heavens name are star schemas, facts and dimensions? Using the Sakila sample database as material, this session will explain what data warehouses are, what problems they solve, and how they are designed and built. Read more.
2:00pm Tuesday, 04/21/2009
How I Used Query Analysis to Speed Up My Applications
Performance Tuning and Benchmarks
 Location: Ballroom F
MC Brown (Sun Microsystems)
Query analysis can help highlight issues in the SQL in your application, but there are many ways of getting that information. Obvious choices are explain and the slow-query log, but newer solutions, such as live query monitoring, mysql proxy and DTrace provide additional benefits. Read more.
3:05pm Tuesday, 04/21/2009
Self-Service Business Intelligence for MySQL
Products & Services
 Location: Ballroom H
James Dixon (Pentaho), Lance Walter (Pentaho Corporation)
Join James Dixon, founder and chief technology officer of Pentaho Corporation, as he explains how to bring business intelligence to your MySQL deployments with Pentaho BI Suite – the most comprehensive suite of BI capabilities in open source. Read more.
4:25pm Tuesday, 04/21/2009
Mining for Insight Within Two Billion Visits
Architecture and Technology, Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
 Location: Ballroom A
Osma Ahvenlampi (Sulake)
Habbo, the world's leading virtual world for teens, has been running on MySQL ever since year 2000 and serves millions of users each month. It's global operation and continued product development depend on timely analysis of masses of data, a challenge we solved using Infobright's Brighthouse DWH engine. I'll tell you why and how we did that. Read more.
5:15pm Tuesday, 04/21/2009
Hadoop and MySQL: Friends with Benefits
Architecture and Technology, Java, Replication and Scale-Out, Web 2.0, Ajax, and Emerging Technologies
 Location: Ballroom C
Frank Mashraqi (Opportunities)
The combination of MySQL and Hadoop opens up new doors for innovation that weren't possible before. Hadoop allows for Massive Parallel Processing but falls short of offering the speed, features and advantages of a relational database such as MySQL. For data intensive startups with massive data processing requirements, a combination of Hadoop and MySQL may be the best solution. Read more.
5:15pm Tuesday, 04/21/2009
High Performance Ruby on Rails and MySQL
Ruby and MySQL
 Location: Ballroom F
David Berube (Berube Consulting)
Database access in Ruby on Rails can be extremely slow, but it doesn't have to be: this talk will discuss ways you can get massive performance speedups by increasing your query efficiency and by minimizing ActiveRecord object creation. This can keep your application scalable and responsible even under large datasets and modest hardware. Read more.

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O'Reilly Media MySQL/Sun Microsystems
  • Kickfire
  • Virident
  • Infobright, Inc
  • JasperSoft
  • Intel
  • Advanced Micro Devices
  • BIRT Exchange by Actuate
  • Calpont
  • Canonical
  • Continuent
  • Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
  • Facebook
  • HiT Software, Inc.
  • IBM
  • iDashboards
  • Oracle
  • Pentaho
  • R1Soft
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • SQLstream
  • Ticketmaster
  • Zmanda, Inc.
  • Linux Journal

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