Giuseppe Maxia and Sheeri K. Cabral give an introduction to what MySQL is. A PDF of the slides can be downloaded at http://technocation.org/files/doc/2009_04_Tour.pdf (21 Mb). Links referred to in the presentation, or related to the presentation: The MySQL forge can be found at http://forge.mysql.com, which contains the Wiki (http://forge.mysql.com/wiki) as well as the worklog, code snippets and tools for use with MySQL. Planet MySQL is an aggregate of MySQL-related blogs, including Giuseppe's and mine -- http://planet.mysql.com The website for the 2009 MySQL User Conference and Expo is at http://mysqlconf.com. MySQL Camp is a free conference at the same time as the User Conference. The details, including the schedule, are at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQLCamp2009Sessions. A collection of User Group videos is at http://technocation.org/category/areas/user-group. All the videos, including User Group ones, are  []

Part 2 of "Understanding How MySQL Works by Understanding Metadata", presented by Sheeri K. Cabral (The Pythian Group) and Patrick Galbraith (Lycos Inc.). This was a 3-hour tutorial. Part 2 is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Uv_4I9gus The PDF of the slides can be found at http://technocation.org/files/doc/2009_04_Understanding.pdf. From the official abstract at http://www.mysqlconf.com/mysql2009/public/schedule/detail/5682: We have spent countless hours researching over 1,000 pieces of metadata. In the process, we have learned a lot about how MySQL works, and realized that it was a pretty good learning method. Examples: Understanding the query_cache% system variables and Qcache% status variables helps us learn about the query cache—what it is, when it is used, how to examine query cache efficiency, how to tune the query cache. This relates to the GLOBAL_VARIABLES and GLOBAL_STATUS system  []

Part 1 of "Understanding How MySQL Works by Understanding Metadata", presented by Sheeri K. Cabral (The Pythian Group) and Patrick Galbraith (Lycos Inc.). This was a 3-hour tutorial. Part 2 is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3IBVsYGdtA The PDF of the slides can be found at http://technocation.org/files/doc/2009_04_Understanding.pdf. From the official abstract at http://www.mysqlconf.com/mysql2009/public/schedule/detail/5682: We have spent countless hours researching over 1,000 pieces of metadata. In the process, we have learned a lot about how MySQL works, and realized that it was a pretty good learning method. Examples: Understanding the query_cache% system variables and Qcache% status variables helps us learn about the query cache—what it is, when it is used, how to examine query cache efficiency, how to tune the query cache. This relates to the GLOBAL_VARIABLES and GLOBAL_STATUS system  []

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