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Architecture and Technology, Tutorial
Location: Ballroom F
Kai Voigt (Sun Microsystems)
Wanna be a Certified MySQL DBA? This Tutorial summarizes every chapter covered in the first part of the official MySQL DBA Exam. Join the tutorial, take and pass the exam during the conference. Read more.
Architecture and Technology, Tutorial
Location: Ballroom F
Kai Voigt (Sun Microsystems)
Wanna be a Certified MySQL DBA? This Tutorial summarizes every chapter covered in the second part of the official MySQL DBA Exam. Join the tutorial, take and pass the exam during the conference. Read more.
Location: Ballroom Foyer
Sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc., the MySQL open source career fair offers sponsors the opportunity to promote job openings to the hundreds of MySQL developer DBAs and system administrators attending the conference. The one-day fair will take place on the first day of the conference. Read more.
Keynote
Location: Ballroom E
Karen Padir (Sun Microsystems, MySQL & Software Infrastructure group)
In the annual State of MySQL keynote, Karen Padir, Vice President for MySQL & Software Infrastructure at Sun Microsystems discusses the current and future role of MySQL in the modern online world. The presentation also covers the broader role MySQL plays at Sun, the role open source is playing for users and customers all over the planet, and what the visions for the future are. Read more.
Keynote
Location: Ballroom E
Mark Callaghan (Facebook)
The inside story of MySQL use at Google, and how this performant database is scaled. Read more.
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.
Replication and Scale-Out
Location: Ballroom B
Lars Thalmann (Oracle), Mats Kindahl (Oracle)
The MySQL Replication developers walk through some of the new Replication features of MySQL 5.1 and MySQL 6.0, such as row-based replication, heart-beating and semi-synchronous replication. Read more.
Business and Case Studies, Java
Location: Ballroom B
John Powell (eMapSite)
The presentation will discuss the loading and indexing of spatial data, but will concentrate on the spatial functions available for further analysis in MySQL. Specific business cases will be used to illustrate these functions, such as the real-time monitoring of boats in offshore windfarm construction. A Java front-end will be used to support the claim that Java plus Mysql equals traditional GIS Read more.
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.
Arun Gupta (Sun Microsystems)
Many of the characteristics that make MySQL so successful also apply to GlassFish and NetBeans. This talk will demonstrate how MySQL, GlassFish, and NetBeans can be used together to create quick and powerful web applications. It shares tips to boost web application development when using all of them together. Read more.
Beat Vontobel (MeteoNews AG)
Experienced SQL developers know how to solve a class of quite different problems efficiently with the help of an auxiliary sequence table: We'll learn from them with easy to understand hands-on examples -- and meet the SeqEngine, a pluggable storage engine for MySQL 5.1 that helps us to apply the expert's tricks even more efficiently. Read more.
Michael McFadden (Sciencelogic.com)
Any application with frequent polling and extensive archiving needs has run into the situation of ‘too much data’. Tables become huge and unsearchable, performance goes down, and over time the cost to store this data adds up. This session covers data smoothing techniques including SQL query side solutions that reduce resolution for data archival storage for more efficient application performance. Read more.
Location: Exhibit Hall A
Visit the exhibitors, mingle with other attendees, and enjoy great refreshments and drinks at the evening reception. Read more.
Keynote
Location: Ballroom E
Vijay Karamcheti (Virident Systems)
Using SCM to enable fast, random, and low-latency access to large ‘in-memory’ databases, Virident’s GreenCloud servers offer dramatic improvements in performance, scalability, and energy and cost efficiency for MySQL in the data center. Read more.
Keynote
Location: Ballroom E
Kaj Arnö (SkySQL Ab), Lew Tucker (Sun Microsystems, Inc.), Monty Taylor (Rackspace Cloud), Jeremy Zawodny (craigslist.org), Chander Kant (Zmanda), Thorsten von Eicken (RightScale, Inc), Prashant Malik (Facebook), Mike Culver (Amazon)
This lively panel discussion keynote will address the nature of the Cloud, with cloud technologists at Sun Microsystems, with industry analysts, experts and customers in the cloud area. This panel is moderated by Kaj Arnö, and attendees are encouraged to participate online via Twitter. Read more.
Location: Ballroom E
Sheeri K. Cabral (Mozilla Foundation)
Sheeri K. Cabral, a two-time winner of the MySQL Community Advocate award, passes the baton to the next generation of MySQL Community superheroes -- you! Though you cannot fly or have X-ray vision, Sheeri will explain how you can make a difference in the MySQL Community without writing a single line of code. Read more.
Keynote
Location: Ballroom E
Miriam Tuerk (Infobright Inc), Brian Gentile (JasperSoft)
With the volume of data exploding and the need for business insight more critical then ever, a new breed of open source solutions delivers the simple-but-sophisticated analytics an enterprise needs to make fact-based decisions and compete more effectively. Read more.
Chuck Bell (Oracle), Mats Kindahl (Oracle)
Do you like to tinker? Would you like to see how MySQL? If you’d like to get your hands dirty (or watch others work their developer magic), stop by this session and learn how to take a simple desktop system running MySQL into a fully functional time based backup system that you can connect to any server and get up to the minute recovery capability. Read more.
Performance Tuning and Benchmarks
Location: Ballroom E
Alexander Rubin (MySQL)
From this presentation you will know how to create a scalable full text search solution with MySQL, how to tune MySQL full text search for maximum performance, how to integrate MySQL with external search solutions and much more. Read more.
Roland Bouman (XCDSQL Solutions / Strukton Rail)
Gears is a Google OSS project to extend common web browsers (FF, IE, Chrome), providing Ajax webdevs with features such as an embedded SQL database and support for long-running background processes. This talk describes in detail how to create browser-based applications that use this local, embedded relational database, and how to synchronize this local database to a central MySQL server. Read more.
Don Beesing (Alion Science and Technology)
Long the domain of ArcSDE, Oracle, and other proprietary database back ends, MySQL can compete as a reliable open-source database solution in the rapidly expanding world of Web Mapping Services (WMS). This presentation will demonstrate the utility and flexibility of MySQL's geo-spatial features and how these can be combined with other technologies to publish data into open WMS standards. Read more.
MC Brown (Sun Microsystems)
The Dojo toolkit is a popular AJAX-based platform for building interactive web applications. This session will provide information on how to build some basic applications using a combination of Dojo and MySQL. The applications will be built from base principles to fully working system,showing both the interactive and database components. Read more.
PHP and MySQL
Location: Ballroom C
Andrey Hristov (SUN Microsystems)
mysqlnd, also known as MySQL native driver for PHP, is the new way of connecting from PHP to MySQL. It's a superior substitute to libmysql. mysqlnd is "native" to PHP, in means that it uses the infrastructure provided by PHP. In this session I will show why mysqlnd is better than libmysql, in the PHP world - performance, better resources utilization, quicker bug-fixing cycle and others. Read more.
Location: Ballroom F
The MySQL Conference Quiz Show pits teams of contestants against each other in a battle of geek wit, ingenuity, MySQL knowledge, and speed Read more.
Keynote
Location: Ballroom E
Don MacAskill (SmugMug)
A story of scaling, in today's world - using modern technologies like ZFS, OpenStorage, MySQL, and more, running one of the world's most popular photo sharing sites - SmugMug. Read more.
Justin Bolter (Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
In this session we will build a PHP+MySQL application in NetBeans that uses the Twitter API to find and graph a "meme" in Twitter. Read more.
Baron Schwartz (Percona Inc.)
Maatkit is a set of tools that helps MySQL users and administrators fill otherwise unmet needs. The toolkit is absolutely packed with functionality. This session will teach you how to get your daily work done faster, safer and smarter. Read more.

Co-presented By:

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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