My presentation slides for the Scale Up, Scale Out and High Availability tutorial here at the MySQL Users Conference are now available for download:
Scale Up, Scale Out and High Availability: Solutions and Combinations
These have been on the MySQL Conference website for days now, but for some reason they don’t seem to have been freed yet.
To those waiting I’m sorry for the delay in getting these uploaded.
Despite an annoying 3 hour flight delay from Heathrow (and no, I wasn’t connecting there, I was leaving from there), I’m here in San Francisco and Santa Clara again ready for the MySQL User Conference 2009.
I obviously have my four presentations to get through, and there will be plenty of other stuff going on at the conference both in terms of other presentations, the show floor, the booths, and the Birds of a Feather sessions (which are terrific fun).
But mostly, I see the UC2009 as the best opportunity to meet up with both other MySQL/Sun people, our customers, and the community at large and talk about the thing we are all passionate about – MySQL and the technologies surrounding it.
And I don’t care if that sounds goofy. Nothing beats talking to face to face with like minded individuals, and one thing that MySQL – and Sun – seems to engender is an extreme passion about the products we deliver that I don’t always see in other products or companies. That means the talk is always interesting and intelligent, and, when it needs to be, good fun.
To anybody attending, welcome to the fun and enjoy the experience. To those not coming, you really are missing something.
Like most people, and with just over a week to go before the conference, I’m putting the finishing touchs on my various presentations.
First up for me, on Monday afternoon, is my tutorial: Scale Up, Scale Out, and High Availability: Solutions and Combinations.
What will be doing?
Very simply: Looking at every potential solution for maximum scalability and availability for your database environment.
If you are attending, be prepared to:
We’re not not hands on in this session – but I will expect you to be brains on!
In amongst the other changes I made last week to provide the Reverse Changelog, I’ve also added some additional output to the Options/Variable chapter.
Basically, for the OptVars Dynamic Docs, we track when each option/variable had a change, either in the value or when it was introduced, deprecated, etc. We can now output those changes for a given version, either an individual one (for example 5.1.30) or toplevel (5.1).
The new changes are documented here:
As always, comments, suggestions welcome.
I didn’t announce it last week, but I did a MySQL University presentation on using MySQL with the ZFS filesystem. ZFS is the main filesystem for Solaris/OpenSolaris and offers a number of different benefits for people using MySQL, including some improvements to the ease of use, management, and performance of the storage you use with your MySQL database.
You can get the presentation, and the recordings of the presentation, from the appropriate MySQL University page: MySQL and ZFS.
We’ve decided to make a number of our docs available through Sun’s docs.sun.com documentation website, in addition to our main documentation site at dev.mysql.com/doc.
The documentation uploaded there is only a small selection of the total documentation, and at the moment, it is limited to full documents, such as the reference manuals, MEM docs, NDBAPI Guide and the MySQL Workbench:
The versions on docs.sun.com will be updated each day (unlike our versions, which are updated multiple times each day).