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The MySQL training team I would challenge as being one of the best training teams in the IT industry. In terms of experience, communication skills, camaraderie, focusing on team goals and building a great working team they are incredible. This team grew out of the MySQL and open source culture that was built with great management and a very profitable training model. This culture was based on working together, sharing and being humble. It's been great to see in today's wild corporate world that there are still companies out there that can build a culture than can bring out the best in individuals and teams.
It's been an amazing run of putting together a Swedish corporate culture with team members from Germany, Sweden, Finland, United States, China, etc. to build one of the best teams in the industry.
I would highly recommend any organization focused on building a highly profitable training organization look at the training model that was put together by MySQL. This model shows that putting a very heavy emphasis on building a quality organization versus just trying to deliver training at the lowest price still makes a difference to customers.
Here are some outstanding blog sites that I would highly recommend for DBAs to visit. Thanks Rick, Yousuf, Satyajit and everybody for sharing.
An Oracle DBA's Future is So Bright They've Got to Wear Shades
As an Oracle DBA (18 years) focused on enterprise management (OEM) across the Oracle Infrastructure (Database Server and Fusion Middleware) I ventured into open source with MySQL and joined MySQL AB. With the Sun acquisition of MySQL and the possible Oracle acquisition of Sun I will have come full cycle. I am so excited about the potential merging of Oracle and Sun technologies. In terms of sharing knowledge I feel it is important to write some white papers on performance tuning Solaris platforms for database servers. Solaris has a number of very cool features for optimizing and diagnosing database servers.
So my continued journey into the Sun is going to take into some areas that maximize my background:
So I plan on writing some white papers and blogs focusing on the following areas of Sun technology:
I am excited about joining a 3D teaming event on how teams work in Second Life. I have been teaching technology classes for over 12 years and was amazed with how much I learned in our first event meeting. A lot of great things stood out in this event that I will be able to take about to my professional job.
I thought this event by Duke was extremely well organized. I was very impressed with the professionalism and skill of our facilitators and coaches.
Most of my blog entries this week are going to be at http://web.mac.com/george.trujillo since I'm at the Collaborate 09 Users conference.
Second Life Presentation on Sun Solaris Campus
This virtual world presentation will be delivered at the Sun Microsystems Islands on the Solaris Campus. Here I'm chilling at the Solaris Campus on one of the Sun virtual islands.
Second Life Presentation on Sun Solaris Campus
The MySQL open source database continues to increase in popularity with usage estimated at 12 million database servers worldwide. This presentation will help Unix/Linux and storage management administrators understand the reasons for the growing popularity of MySQL. Topics will include:
The focus of this presentation is on helping attendees understand the philosophy, features, benefits and popularity of MySQL.
Second Life Presentation on Sun Solaris Campus May 5, 2009 9:00 am PDT
This virtual world presentation will be delivered at the Sun Microsystems Islands on the Solaris Campus. Information on the SL Solaris campus can be found at http://blogs.sun.com/solariscampus. The SLURL is:
Here I'm visiting the Solaris Certification Center.
Demystifying MySQL for Solaris Administrators
George Trujillo (Ty Valdez) and Steve Jones will be presenting a Demystifying MySQL for Solaris Administrators the week of May 4, 2009 in Second Life. This presentation is a very detailed technical presentation designed for experienced Unix/Linux administrators to understand installation, configuration and management of MySQL on Solaris platforms. MySQL best practices along with Solaris features that can leverage database management such as ZFS will be included. Topics will include:
George Trujillo at Collaborate 09 Week of May 3, 2009
Demystifying MySQL for Oracle DBAs and Developers Tues @ 9:45am - 10:45am, 224A
George Trujillo at Collaborate 09 Week of May 3, 2009
I will be presenting two presentations at the IOUG Collaborate 09 Conference in Orlando FL, the week of May 3rd 2009. Here is one I have been asked to present. This presentation is a non-technical presentation talking about MySQL positioning, strengths and strategic directions.
What every Oracle Professional needs to know about MySQL Mon @ 3:45pm - 4:45pm, 240CD
The MySQL open source database continues to increase in popularity with usage estimated at 11 million database servers worldwide. This presentation will help Oracle professionals who are considering
the addition of MySQL or just getting started with MySQL: how the MySQL database can be utilized, MySQL strategy and architecture, and key functionalities. Similarities and differences between database vendors and best practices will be included. The focus of this presentation is on helping attendees understand the philosophy, features, benefits and popularity of MySQL.
One of the great personal rewards in a career is the ability to work with a great team. I have been extremely fortunate to work with some fantastic teams in my career, but one of the best teams I have ever worked with is the MySQL training team. It's hard to describe this team without getting corny. Our MySQL training team has great leadership, incredible camaraderie, selfless team members always focused on the goals of the team along with incredible and unique talent. On the business side this team has been extremely profitable and focused on business objectives.
When I look at how this great team was created, I have seen a number of very unique events that occurred to create this great team. It's like building a great sword. A great sword requires the best materials, the ability to put the materials together in exactly the right way, a love and passion for excellence and a master sword builder to create it. Our team had all of this. The ingredients included:
There are great teams in Sun and in other companies. I would be extremely interested in learning and sharing ideas and thoughts of how great teams are put together and maintained. During the Collaborate 09 conference next week I plan on talking to a number of user community leaders and getting their insights on great teams and how they were created.
Now that the MySQL conference is over, it's time to focus on the Collaborate 09 Oracle Users conference. The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) is a user community focused on the technology side of Oracle. This is an excellent organization to be a part of if you are an Oracle technology expert. I will be wrapping up my current term on the Board of Directors after serving two terms. While serving on the board has been a fantastic experience I am so involved in Oracle HA, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Open Source and Virtual 3D training that my time is being spread too thin so I figured its time to step down from the board. However, I still plan on staying very involved in the Oracle user community. I cannot recommend highly enough for someone to get involved in the technology user communities. In the last few years I have been involved in the following groups and the personal and professional rewards and the ability to give back to the user community has been some of the most rewarding experiences of my career. These groups include:
As I step down from the board of directors for the IOUG, I do hope this gives me more time to get involved in the virtual 3D training community, open source user community, ODTUG, Java user community and local Oracle users groups. My personal interest in Oracle Fusion Middleware that includes Java, Web Services, BPEL, SOA, XML and application servers I am sure is going to take me on some fun journeys over the next year. Whew, I think I just wore myself out. :)
As an Oracle DBA for 20 years and an Oracle Ace in the Oracle Fusion middleware technologies I can tell you the IOUG is a great organization to be a part of if you want to maintain your personal technical skills, network with the largest technical Oracle users group and see the top Oracle user community leaders present on Oracle technical topics.
The IOUG at the Collaborate 09 conference is a very important conference for me. My focus for the last ten years has been focusing on high availability across multiple tiers of the Oracle architecture. With my background in RAC, Data Guard and Oracle streams and Oracle Fusion Middleware it is important I maintain my skills and stay in touch with what others are doing. In the last two years I have gotten involved in high availability across open source tiers of MySQL, Apache and PHP now allows me to talk to customers that are implementing Oracle and open source solutions. So one of the places I go to sharpen my skills and make sure I am up to speed on what others are doing is to be a part of the IOUG.
I hope to see you at the IOUG conference in Orlando!
The Continuing Disruption in the Database Industry:
Everyone recognizes the tremendous growth and adoption of the MySQL Database Server in the marketplace. On the second day of the MySQL Users Conference 2009 in Santa Clara, CA , the power of combining Sun expertise with MySQL innovation has been shown to the IT industry. Today Sun Microsystems introduces the MySQL 5.4 performance release. Sun and MySQL teams have addressed all the doomsayers and analysts spreading FUD with an exciting new version of MySQL. This release includes some excellent patches from the user community showing the continuing importance of the MySQL user community.
Key Features of the MySQL 5.4 Release
Performance benchmarks have shown MySQL 5.4 to run up to 60% faster than 5.1. Some of the key new features of this performance and scalability release include:
The Oracle announcement to purchase Sun Microsystems makes the IOUG Collaborate 09 Conference (May 3-7 2009, Orlando FL) a very hot ticket. The IOUG conference will bring together the top Oracle technology leaders in the user community. You can expect a lot of great discussions and interactions discussing the potential of the Oracle acquisition with Sun within the Oracle user community.
Oracle and Sun employees cannot discuss the potential of this acquisition, however the top industry leaders in the Oracle user community and Oracle 3rd party vendors and partners will definitely be discussing this interesting news.
The IOUG is the largest Oracle user technology user group in the world. Whenever you bring the top Oracle technology leaders in the user community you can expect a lot of discussion and interaction between these leaders. I don't think I've ever gotten more voice mails and emails in one day. So the buzz is definitely at the highest level.
This will definitely make the Collaborate 09 conference in Orlando a very dynamic week among the Oracle user community. The Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) can be a very strong resource to the Sun Microsystems community. The IOUG focuses on the technology side of Oracle.
So when you look at some of these areas of the IOUG you can see why the IOUG Collaborate 09 conference just got a lot more exciting:
Oracle's announcement of its intention to purchase Sun Microsystetms definitely started the MySQL Users conference with a bang. The MySQL conference is always one of the best conferences to attend for the year, so people attending will definitely be having a lot of discussions and interactions.
It will make it very interesting to have a number of the open source leaders all together for the conference to exchange a lot of ideas. Some of the most exciting conversations are definitely going to be occurring this week.
Today's announcement that Oracle has agreed to buy Sun does not come as a surprise to anyone.
I really can't speculate or offer an opinion at this time. However, there are a lot of insights offered by the industry analysts that are an interesting read.
For me personally this acquisition is great news if this moves forward. It brings together the two company's technologies where I have spent most of my career working with.
Sun's strategy is working with open source. Open source offers tremendous revenue opportunities for Sun and significant cost savings for customers. I am seeing a constant explosion of open source everywhere I go. I not only see more companies looking at using MySQL but lots of organizations are looking at open source solutions for all kinds of areas where they previously used proprietary software. Here is a great list of open source solutions.
My presentation on MySQL in Second Life went really well. I presented in one of the Sun auditoriums that was really cool. It was all glass, very futuristic look. This presentation was really popular at the Sun CEC in Las Vegas, so I customized it for Second Life and got a lot of great feedback and emails. I'm now going to be delivering some customized MySQL and Oracle presentations for Sun employees.
I've been getting a lot of emails of people volunteering to help with the MySQL second life project and also requests for different types of sessions. I will keep people in the loop as new presentations get scheduled.
MySQL Sessions at Sun CEC 2008
I was asked to put together a MySQL training track at the Sun CEC 2008 conference in Las Vegas. I've never had so much fun delivering at a conference. During the Sun Customer Engineer Conference we delivered 11 sessions preparing attendees for eventually the MySQL DBA certification. We started off with attendees from multiple tracks sitting in the first session which gave us a body count of 84. Over the entire week, these sessions regularly had 70+ plus seats filled. Highlights of the sessions include:
By the end of the conference all the Sun engineers were able to perform the following:
Attendees took MySQL Associate Exam
David Stokes the MySQL Certification Manager was there to discuss certification, define directions in MySQL certification and show attendees the path to MySQL certifications. David also provided a lot of the energy and ideas surrounding the conference.
On the last day we offered the Associate exam with fifty people passing and two failing.
50 exams taken
48 CMA Certifications (94 or 96% success rate)
Attendees will now be working towards MySQL DBA certifications.
Tons of success stories: Here are a few.
Attendee after attendee from other tracks after hearing about the awesome MySQL sessions came in trying to join. "The MySQL sessions were fun, entertaining and I never learned so much in one week". "Some of the best presenters I've ever heard at a conference." "The week was excellent." The best I ever had at a CEC". "Best organized sessions of the conference." "MySQL rocks!"
Guest speakers a big success!
Marten Mickos at Sun CEC
We also had a guest appearance from Marten Mickos who did a great job of positioning MySQL within Sun and laying out directions as we move forward. Getting Marten to come in and speak to Sun SE's looking at MySQL certification was the icing on the cake for the sessions.
Thank you everybody!
The MySQL sessions at the Sun CEC will use the Sun Virtual box and MySQL Windows versions 5.1.29 software.
Please follow the following instructions for the MySQL sessions at the Sun CEC:
2. Go to the MySQL website: http:/dev.mysql.com
Click on the downloads tab.
On the far left, click on Community Server and chose 5.1.
Chose the appropriate operating system (Windows).
Click on, No thanks, just take me to the downloads!
Under Windows Downloads, chose: Windows ZIP/Setup.EXE (x86).
Chose a mirror close to your geographical region. Chose HTTP.
Save the file to your local disk.
The virtual box and MySQL software will be installed as part of the MySQL sessions.
This blog copyright 2009 by George Trujillo
