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  • UC2009: How I Used Query Analysis to Speed up My Applications

    The presentation slides for my Query Analysis talk here at the users conference are now available: How I Used Query Analysis to Speed up My Applications I’ll sort out the scripts and bits and pieces I use once I get back to the office next week, f…

  • UC2009: On the Starting Blocks

    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 t…

  • MySQL Conf 2009 Preview: Scalability and HA Tutorial

    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 …

  • Diarizing – what goes around, comes around

    OK, so I’ve just written about my love of Moleskines and it occurs to me that today’s bloggers (myself included) are just continuing a long tradition for some people to share their experiences. I write my memories in my Moleskines, not on a day to…

  • I love my Moleskine

    Not remotely related to computing at all, but I’ve just been updating my diaries, and I use Moleskine. I go everywhere with a Moleskine of some description (they’ve recently released some really tiny notebooks, which make it easier to carry your l…

  • MySQL on Solaris Best Practices Presentation

    A couple of weeks ago I was at the MySQL European Customer Conference in London, where I was presenting my talk on deploying MySQL on Solaris best practices. You can download a copy of the presentation here: MySQL on Solaris Best Practices. I cove…

  • BBC Quiz: Old computers

    The BBC has a great quiz on old computers, most of which I’m happy to admit that I have actually owned. Despite this I only 7 out of 10, but I still think that’s a respectable score.

  • MySQL Documentation Myths

    There are a few myths surrounding the MySQL documentation and how it works, and I thought I’d try and dispel some of those myths if I can. If you have any more questions or misunderstandings you want clarified, let me know. Myth: MySQL Documentati…

  • Teaching OpenSolaris

    While looking for some information on OpenSolaris in preparation for my talk this week I came across some excellent material providing backgrounds on OpenSolaris for both instructors and students. The material is part of the Curriculum Development…

  • DimDim and MySQL University

    Stop the press! My boss, Stefan Hinz, has just started blogging, with his first post here: Using NetBeans with MySQL. So who is he? Well, Stefan is the guy that keeps the rest of us in the docs team in check and makes sure we do what we’re asked, …