User Group

Patrick Galbraith, former MySQL employee who helped write replication, came to the November 2007 Boston MySQL User Group and did a fantastic presentation on replication, including showing how to set up replication and walking us through the steps in real-time, setting up an example server. Smaller, 320x240, 293M WMV file for download References mentioned in the video: Brian Aker's DBIx::Password Giuseppe Maxia's article about federated tables -- I think that's the right one, feel free to comment if it's not. MySQL Toolkit -- renamed Ma'atkit -- lives at http://sourceforge.net/projects/maatkit sample my.cnf files for 2 different dual-master replication scenarios

I have finally managed to watch and slightly edit the September 2007 Boston MySQL User Group presentation I did on the MySQL Proxy. It's geared towards beginners, and has lots of examples, including explaining some of the examples that come bundled with the MySQL Proxy. Direct Play Download video (.wmv file, 612 Mb) Download video (.wmv file, 76.10 Mb) Enjoy! Some resources: Presentation Slides PowerPoint (ppt) or PDF or Flash (swf)
Official Documentation for MySQL Proxy
Proxy information on the MySQL Forge Wiki, including getting started guide, link to FAQ, forums, and lots more articles.
MySQL Proxy Download
Articles about MySQL Proxy written by Giuseppe Maxia Giuseppe Maxia will be leading Introducing Lua for MySQL Proxy scripting for the [free] MySQL University on Thursday, December 13th at 16:00 CET (15:00 URC, 10:00 EDT, 07:00 PST). Make sure to sign up and read Instructions for Attendees. (From his blog, "MySQL University is a series of online expert lessons that you can join for free and attend from the comfort of your home or office. The slides are provided in either PDF of wiki pages, the audio is an ogg stream, and you can interact with the lecturer via IRC. If you have heard of MySQL Proxy but haven't got the time of getting involved with it yet, this session is for you. If you were interested but you thought that another scripting langiage would be too difficult, give this session a chance.") Note: the wishlist at the end includes startup scripts and integraton with my.cnf, my.cnf, which I am informed will be possible with the chassis currently under development for version 0.70.

The Boston MySQL User Group was successful yet again! I was a bit worried about my presentation, that it would be too basic or folks would have wanted to see actual code and scripts, but it turned out well. Special thanx to Mike Kruckenberg for taking the video and taking pictures! Folks who were at the presentation — feel free to let me know what you thought of it. Folks not at the presentation — feel free to watch the video and let me know what you think. I’m especially interested for those folks who read the last article, if the talk goes more in depth and answers more questions.