Hi Sheeri and Ronald We've now figured out that Daniel Bartholomew lives somewhat close to D.C. and will be the ideal speaker from Monty Program / MariaDB for this. The topic we discussed with Ronald was "MySQL weak spots and their well known workarounds" (including but not limited to subqueries) and this would fit Daniel perfectly. You are all in CC, please continue without me... henrik On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Henrik Ingo <henrik.ingo@avoinelama.fi> wrote:
Hi all
I just had a talk with Sheeri about an upcoming Oracle Developer Tools User Group conference in June in Washington. There will be a 1 day MySQL track on Sunday, plus possibly some other MySQL talks:
http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com/agenda.html
Sheeri was asking if someone from Monty Program (or, imho any MariaDB activist) wanted to present.
Things to note: - The conference is application developer oriented, so things like optimizer internals or tuning InnoDB buffer size is not interesting. - We don't want to talk about MariaDB per se. We don't want to introduce this crowd to the reality of there being so many MySQL forks.
The previous points pretty much rule out everything we presented at the MySQL conference :-)
Good topics could be: - Efficient and inefficient SQL queries in MySQL - UDF tutorial and examples
The first suggestion is imho good. These Oracle experts need to learn to avoid certain things like most subqueries, and how to work around that. But on the other hand this is a natural topic for someone from us to present, since we could then also mention that correlated subqueries will work creat in MariaDB 5.3, which may even be beta by this point?
The second suggestion is an example of something that would be considered very technical topic in this conference.
Now the question is who to send there? This is not significant enough that someone from Europe would fly in - heh, most of us would probably not volunteer themselves at this point :-) In US I see Bryan or Daniel as candidates for this, Igor possibly for the UDF kind of talk more than the app developer talk. And, it needn't be a Monty Program employee, let me know if you're interested.
Colin, will you pick this up from here?
henrik
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