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MySQL Conference and Expo 2008

The MySQL Conference & Expo is an annual event, organized by MySQL AB in cooperation with O'Reilly. Current and previous editions

The 2008 conference theme was "Harness the Power of MySQL" and took place from 14-17 April 2008 in Santa Clara, California.

Contents 1 Videos, Slides, Notes from the conference 1.1 Entire conference on one page 1.1.1 By day: Monday 1.1.2 By day: Tuesday 1.1.3 By day: Wednesday 1.1.4 By day: Thursday 2 Photos 3 Resources 4 Guides to the Conference 4.1 The DBA's Guide to the Conference 4.2 The PHP Developer's Guide to the Conference 4.3 The Java Developer's Guide to the Conference 4.4 The Ruby Developer's Guide to the Conference 4.5 The .NET Developer's Guide to the Conference 4.6 The Performance Tuning Specialist's Guide to the Conference 5 At the Conference 5.1 Birds of a Feather Session Notes 5.1.1 Stump the MySQL Community Experts! 5.1.2 Local MySQL Groups 5.1.3 What if... a relational view of hierarchies and graphs 5.2 Impromptu Events 5.2.1 MySQL Community pre-conference dinner (Sun 13 Apr) 5.3 Ride and Hotel Sharing

[edit] Videos, Slides, Notes from the conference

[edit] Entire conference on one page

[edit] By day: Monday

[edit] By day: Tuesday

[edit] By day: Wednesday

[edit] By day: Thursday

[edit] Photos

• photos - Flickr set tagged mysqluc08
• Julian Cash photos

[edit] Resources

• Flickr group - photo sharing (use tag mysqluc08)
• Freenode IRC #mysqlconf

[edit] Guides to the Conference

[edit] The DBA's Guide to the Conference

• DBA’s guide to the 2008 MySQL User’s Conference by Robin Schumacher

[edit] The PHP Developer's Guide to the Conference

• The Hitchhackers Guide to the MySQL Conference: PHP Edition by Jay Pipes

[edit] The Java Developer's Guide to the Conference

[edit] The Ruby Developer's Guide to the Conference

• The Hitchhacker’s Guide to the MySQL Conference - Ruby/Ruby on Rails Edition by Colin Charles

[edit] The .NET Developer's Guide to the Conference

[edit] The Performance Tuning Specialist's Guide to the Conference

[edit] At the Conference

[edit] Birds of a Feather Session Notes

Following are BoF sessions that are known to be accepted (not yet scheduled). Add yours! (when they are scheduled, we can put links in and remove the abstracts from here) Outcomes and resources will be added from each session, but you want to be there anyway!

[edit] Stump the MySQL Community Experts!

Put your MySQL problems before Arjen, PeterZ, Baron, and a gang of other active MySQL Community members present at the MySQL Conference. See if they can work it out!

Watch them squirm, argue, and astonish you with their wit and proficiency.

[edit] Local MySQL Groups

With MySQL user groups thriving around the world, the MySQL Conference is an ideal opportunity for local group organisers and participants to share experiences and exchange ideas. Please add your group to the list if you intend to be at this BoF!

• MySQL groups at meetup.com - MySQL AB has an arrangement with meetup.com, so that no monthly fee is required.
  1. Brisbane, Australia - organiser: Arjen Lentz
  2. Hamburg, Germany - organiser: Lenz Grimmer
• List of MySQL User Groups

[edit] What if... a relational view of hierarchies and graphs

Have you been yearning to deal with your menu structure or social network using plain SQL queries, joining on to your other data? What if... that can actually be done?

A meetup of developers who are interested in relational hierarchy/graph functionality! Arjen is currently developing a storage engine for this purpose. He will show how it’s done, and preview how to use it. Discussion is encouraged, exploring possible uses, things it must do to be useful for you, and so on.

Most applications use trees (hierarchies) or graphs (networks) in some form, and dealing with them is the scourge of many developer. It is important to discuss experiences and explore ideas to improve how we manage them.

[edit] Impromptu Events

[edit] MySQL Community pre-conference dinner (Sun 13 Apr)

Sunday evening (13 April), while the MySQL AB gang has its annual pre-conf staff party at Marten's house. If you want to come, please click on the above link and add your name so we know how many people will be there!

Blog posts about the dinner, where Jonathan Schwartz, CEO of Sun, showed up:

• Arjen, who suggested the dinner
• Colin Charles
• Kaj Arnö
• Peter Zaitsev
• Barton

[edit] Ride and Hotel Sharing

• Nathan Letwory stays at Super 8 Motel. See userpage for info. If you're driving in San Jose/Santa Clara, please contact him for possible car-pooling.
• Arjen Lentz will stay at the conf hotel (Hyatt Santa Clara). Arriving at SFO (flight UA 870 from Sydney) Sun 13 Apr 10:56am. Will go for a walk to get some sunlight and exercise for dealing with the jetlag.
• Sebastian Bergmann will stay at the conf hotel (Hyatt Santa Clara). Arriving at SJC (flight UA6499 from LAX) Sat 12 Apr 5:38pm), interested in touristy activities on Sun 13 (Paramount's Great America Theme Park, for example).