Today, for me is day 1 of the MySQL Confernece & Expo 2009. It seems to be going pretty well – and its only 2.45pm.<\/p>\n
If you follow Planet MySQL, or happen to just have random conversations with people, the main buzz for the day is “Oracle buying Sun”. But let me not bore you with that. I just want to log some of my interesting conversations.<\/p>\n
Over lunch I had a good discussion with users of MySQL, and one potential user of MySQL (his company uses Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase, and are now looking at MySQL). We talked about quite a number of things:<\/p>\n
For many, this is their first MySQL Conference. For some, they’ve been coming on-and-off since 2005. <\/p>\n
Tutorial quality? If you follow Twitter, you’ll know that some people enjoy their tutorials, while some don’t. Most don’t want to be in a tutorial, in where the speaker talks about everything on the slide deck — because that’s something you can do yourself by sitting at home. People want a mix of war stories. I think this alone is pretty good advice for speakers. But always remember, you can’t always please everyone<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Cloudera’s tutorial in the afternoon was most amazing — you had to watch a bunch of videos, get a VM ready, and a lot more preparation. They went to, in quite some depth about the Facebook architecture (Amy Lin, from Facebook was surprised how much they knew — I suggested that, most of the information is mostly public anyway). This didn’t seem like a tutorial to attend if you were new to Hadoop, and if you’d not completed the prep, you might have been left out.<\/p>\n
Sheeri and Patrick spent a lot of time in the shell, and inside MySQL. But I learned quite a bit about metadata. <\/p>\n
I wish I took down more notes, but there’s some level of running around that I was required to do.<\/p>\n
Follow @MySQLConf<\/a> on Twitter. The Twitter serach for mysqlconf<\/a> is also good for the “streaming river of information”.<\/p>\n Did I already mention people talking about Oracle buying Sun? Everyone is wondering about the future of MySQL and more. Its all just speculation people. Wait and see. That’s the most informed approach. I can respect that analysts<\/a> have opinions<\/a>, but it doesn’t mean anything. I like Marten’s candid response<\/a>, though. Marten knows how to get a message across. <\/p>\n Power. Power is being rolled out in all rooms, there should be power plugs in every three rows. But that seemed to be an issue. The Internet mostly works, things are “fixed”, so you should be able to suck mail via IMAP, and connect elsewhere via SSH.<\/p>\n