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April 08, 2008 | Comments: (0)

MySQL conference preview

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After our late night April Fool's dolphin stunt last week, I got roped into doing an early morning video shoot to preview some of the upcoming items for next week's MySQL Conference & Expo in Santa Clara.

I did this on about 4 hours sleep and so I look a bit like Gaius Baltar from Battlestar Galactica, but hopefully less conflicted and not as sleezy. Through the miracle of video editing they made me look semi-coherent, though some things about new storage engines and row-based replication ended up on the cutting room floor. There's a ton of new stuff coming in MySQL 5.1 and the quality and performance look very good. We are in the final release candidate stage and expect that it will be GA in this quarter.

I think we'll also see a lot of innovation in storage engines this year, both from MySQL and from our partners including InnoDB, PrimeBase, InfoBright and others. I think the keynotes will also be very popular, featuring Marten Mickos (MySQL head honcho), Jonathan Schwartz (Sun CEO), Werner Vokels (Amazon CTO), Jeff Roschild (Facebook) and others.

There's been a few excellent "Hitchhacker Guides" to the MySQL Conference giving details about what sessions might be of most interest to PHP developers, Ruby developers, DBAs etc.

You can find the video on Sun's home page for now or along with other videos in Sun's multimedia center. I've also embedded a video player below.

Update: I've added a quickpoll so you can vote for what you're most looking forward to at the conference.

Posted by Zack Urlocker on April 8, 2008 10:28 AM

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