Database Software
Linux Filesystem Performance for Databases: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly ...
By Selena Deckelmann
How do you choose the right filesystem for your database management system? Administrators have a variety of filesystems to choose from, as well as volume management and hardware or software RAID. This talk will examine how different the performance of filesystems really are, and how do you go about systematically determining which configuration will be the best for your application and hardware.
[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]
How MySQL.com Improved Their Database Performance with Query: MySQL ...
By Adam Donnison
In a classic case of "eat your own dogfood", MySQL.com is a key player in the beta testing of MySQL software, including Query Analyzer. In this presentation MySQL.com web developer Adam Donnison will take you through how he used Quan to improve database performance on the MySQl.com website by orders of magnitude, and why Quan was needed.
[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]
Oracle Set-up & Management of HP Oracle Database Machine - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Robert Stackowiak
Shortly after the initial release of the HP Oracle Database Machine and the Exadata Storage Server, this blog described the new products. As organizations tested the hardware / software solution and more details have emerged on how it is delivered,...
[Publish Date: February 07, 2009]
The Freedom to Cure Cancer: Open Source Software in Genomics: OSCON 2009 - ...
By David Dooling
It has long been know that free/libre/open source software (FLOSS), especially GNU/Linux and Perl, played a major role in the Human Genome Project. This presentation will discuss the use and development of FLOSS in the post-genomics era, focusing on its pervasive use in sequencing the first cancer genome at The Genome Center at Washington University in St. Louis.
[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]
MapReduce + SQL Using Open Source Software and Tools: MySQL Conference & ...
By Christophe Bisciglia, Aaron Kimball
Recently, there has been a lot of buzz around MapReduce, and the Apache Hadoop project. Even more recently, we have seen proprietary SQL database systems add support for MapReduce. This is great for data, but lacks advantages of open source. In this tutorial, we will provide both background knowledge and the practical experience necessary to combine these models to get more out of your data.
[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]
Software Quality and Testing in MySQL: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - ...
By Omer BarNir, Trim Pershad
"MySQL internal QA" about which many of you may speculate and very have direct knowledge of, will be discussed in this presentation. QA takes care of your favorite database in the development and release cycle, from code review through bug management with massive amounts of testing in between. Come to find out what is being done internally before the server is shipped.
[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]
Speaker: Omer BarNir: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...
Omer BarNir is a software QA architect for the database group/MySQL at Sun Microsystems. He has over twelve years of QA/testing experience as a software tester, team lead, and QA manager in testing database, client-server, and web-based applications. BarNir holds a B.S. in statistics; an M.B.A. in information systems, and a software engineering certificate in software quality assurance and testing.
[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]
Automated Data Versioning with a Storage Engine Middleware: MySQL ...
By Peter Volk
With the increase complexity of software architecture and database design the amount of data stored in databases systems grows rapidly. Additionally, data security and international regulatory laws require that data changes are audited and restorable to any point of time. The revision engine implements automated auditing of data transparently as a storage engine.
[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]
Speaker: James Tillman: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - 24, ...
James Tillman has been developing software for State and Local governments for 15 years, and has been active in Open Source development for more than a decade. An early participant on SourceForge.com, he served as a coordinator for the now-defunct Java and Perl "foundries" in its formative years, and contributed to many Open Source projects, such as LWP and Ht://dig. He has led and participated on multiple software development teams which have designed and developed enterprise-level solutions for mission-critical systems, including a Java-based authentication and authorization library utilized by Law Enforcement. Over the years, James has been active in the Tallahassee/Leon County regional technology community, and is currently Chair-Elect of Tallahassee Technology Association ("TalTech"), a regional technology advocacy group that works with technology businesses and State & Local government agencies. From 2003 to 2008, James was President and CEO of a multi-million dollar,...
[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]
Speaker: Paul Ramsey: Where 2.0 Conference 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, May ...
Paul has been a developer and promoter of open source geospatial software for 10 years, as a founder of the PostGIS spatial database project, leader of an open source geospatial company, and currently as a Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. Paul has spoken regularly at geospatial conferences, taught workshops on open source databases, and recently chaired the international Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G2007) Conference in Victoria, Canada.
[Publish Date: May 19, 2009]
Speaker: Lee Stigile: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...
Lee Stigile is a Sales Engineer for MySQL. His expertise is focused on helping IT organizations to design and deploy database applications using MySQL. Besides application development and database administration, Lee has experience working with a wide range of technology products including mobile device management software and embedded database servers
[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]
Speaker: Calvin Sun: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...
Calvin Sun is a principle software engineer at the InnoDB group of Oracle. Prior to joining Oracle, he was the development manager of storage engines at MySQL. He has over ten years of database internals experience at Pervasive Software, MySQL and now Oracle. He has an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China.
[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]
