Archive for July, 2007

OSCON Tutorial: Target Practice: A Workshop in Tuning MySQL Queries

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

Date: 23-Jul-2007
Time: 8:30 - 12:30 PDT
Presenter: Jay Pipes

Great information on MySQL tuning. I generally pull on my extensive Oracle experience when writing queries for MySQL. Lots of generally good practices work for both Oracle and MySQL, but, as I learned today, there are some “gotchas” for MySQL that need to be accounted for. My main take away for this tutuorial is as follows:
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OSCON 2007

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

I’m heading off to OSCON 2007 in Portland in a couple of hours. This is my first OSCON, and I’ll be blogging my experiences while there. I’m signed up for several tutorials on Monday and Tuesday. The sessions on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday look like they’re awesome also.

Tutorials I’m signed up for:

Title: Target Practice: A Workshop in Tuning MySQL Queries
Date: 07/23/2007
Time: 8:30am to 12:00pm

Title: Scalable Internet Architectures
Date: 07/23/2007
Time: 1:30pm to 5:00pm

Title: Technical Management of Software Development
Date: 07/24/2007
Time: 8:30am to 12:00pm
Handout

Title: Making Programs Faster
Date: 07/24/2007
Time: 1:30pm to 5:00pm

Here are links to the conference website and wiki

Watch this spot for more information during the day each day!

–dhw

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