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Call for nominations to the MySQL Council

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The MySQL council is looking for candidates for 2012.  Based on community feedback, this will be an open nomination process (and you can nominate yourself).
The MySQL council advocates for the MySQL community, and needs community leaders to help address…

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“How Fractal Trees Work” at MIT today

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I’ll be talking about How Fractal Trees Work  today at MIT in the Computational Research In Boston and Beyond (CRIBB) seminar (http://www-math.mit.edu/crib/2011/nov4.html). The talk is at 12:30 in the Stata Center room 32-141.  Pizza available before.
This talk will be…

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Challenges of Big Databases with MySQL –...

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Many database management tasks become difficult as you move from millions of rows and gigabytes of data to billions of rows and terabytes of data. Such tasks include ingesting data while maintaining indexes; changing schemas without downtime; and supporting connections,…

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My Talk on Sunday at Oracle Open World

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Challenges of Big Databases with MySQL
Many database management tasks become difficult as you move from millions of rows and gigabytes of data to billions of rows and terabytes of data. Such tasks include ingesting…

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Talk to the MySQL Council

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We’ve been busy at The MySQL Council. Giuseppe’s summary does a good job explaining what we’ve been up to.
You can communicate with the MySQL council in several ways including:

Respond to the MySQL Council Survey.
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OpenSQL Camp Boston 2010

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OpenSQL Camp Boston 2010 will be held at the Stata Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 15-17, 2010.

The Stata Center was designed by Frank Gehry and was completed in 2005. The Stata Center houses CSAIL

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OpenSQL (2009 Portland) talk on an Open Storage...

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I just spotted the youtube video of my OpenSQL Camp (Portland 2009) talk on An Open Storage Engine API. I talked about some of technical issues for implementing storage engines across many SQL front ends, not just MySQL.…

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What is a Performance Model for SSDs?

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Here are the slides and video for my MySQL UC ignite talk on measuring the performance of SSDs.

You can find this talk and other mostly technical material here.
This research was funded in part by…

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Fractal Tree Video from OpenSQL Camp (Portland in...

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I recently discovered that there’s a youtube video of the talk I gave at OpenSQL Camp in Portland in 2009.
This is a whiteboard presentation and is less well developed than the talk I gave a the MySQL…

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“How Fractal Trees Work” talk at MySQL...

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Here’s the talk I presented at the MySQL User Conference. This talk is a fairly technical talk on how fractal trees work.
You can find this talk and other mostly technical material at http://tokutek.com/technology/.

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