Giuseppe Maxia speaks at the April 2009 Los Angeles MySQL User Group about MySQL Sandbox and how to use it for simple and complex sandbox scenarios.

Presented at the April 2009 Los Angeles MySQL User Group (see http://www.meetup.com/lamysql/calendar/9882984/ for more details) BIO: Andrew Aksyonoff is a Russian geek who created Sphinx back in 2001 and has been working on the code base ever since. Fluent in C++, less so in human speak, but keeps trying. He lives in Russia. TOPIC: Sphinx Just how do you implement keyword search through that 10-million-row InnoDB table? Meet Sphinx, a blazing fast open source engine that makes it a breeze. We'll talk about what it is, how it works, and when and why use it. INTERESTING FACT: Meetup search is powered by Sphinx.

At the March 2009 Boston MySQL User Group meeting, Jacob Nikom of MITs Lincoln Laboratory presented Optimizing Concurrent Storage and Retrieval Operations for Real-Time Surveillance Applications. In the middle of the talk, Jacob said he sometimes calls what he did in this application as real-time data warehousing, which was so accurate I decided to give that title to this blog post. The slides can be downloaded in PDF format (1.3 Mb) at http://www.technocation.org/files/doc/Concurrent_database_performance_02.pdf. This talk discussed how to do real-time retrieval operations while doing concurrent high volume insertion, including: * How to keep up with 1.5 Mb/second per server incoming data stream * * server hardware comparison between a multi-core AMD Opteron and a multi core Intel Xeon * MySQL/Postgres comparison * schema design * design of the storage/retrieval benchmark *  []

What's new, in a nutshell: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysql-nutshell.html Release notes: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/news-5-1-x.html (In the video, it's the page entitled "Changes in release 5.1.x"). And yes, very early on (at about 2 minutes in) I talk about my take on Monty's controversial post at http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2008/11/oops-we-did-it-again-mysql-51-released.html The slides can be downloaded as a PDF at http://technocation.org/files/doc/2008_12_New51.pdf or in Open Office presentation format at http://technocation.org/files/doc/2008_12_New51.odp

Sheeri Cabral speaks about the changes in MySQL 5.1 and everything you need to know about upgrading. Get the slides at http://technocation.org/files/doc/2008_12_New51.pdf See the accompanying blog post with more information at http://www.pythian.com/news/1414/new-in-mysql-51-sheeris-presentation

At the May 2009 Boston MySQL User Group, Giuseppe Maxia of Sun Microsystems gave a presentation about MySQL 5.4 with use cases and benchmarks to show how it outperforms all other current MySQL releases (including the Percona, OurDelta, and Google releases/patches). The slides are at http://www.slideshare.net/datacharmer/mysql-54-theory-and-practice