Schedule: Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence sessions

9:00am - 12:30pm Monday, 04/14/2008

MySQL Workbench. The Ultimate Guide to DBA Productivity: Writing Plugins and Scripts

Location: Ballroom A

MySQL Workbench is a highly customizable tool to help you make your everyday job more efficient. This tutorial will show how to write configurable, flexible, cross-platform plugins (C++, Python, LUA). Read more.

9:00am - 12:30pm Monday, 04/14/2008

Advanced Stored Procedures

Location: Ballroom B

Mariella Di Giacomo (The Hive)

MySQL 5.0 and higher versions support stored routines that are based on the SQL:2003 standard. The introduction of stored programs in MySLQ 5 has been a significant milestone of the MySQL language. This tutorial will offer a brief overview of the stored program language and focus on how to improve and tune stored programs. Read more.

9:00am - 12:30pm Monday, 04/14/2008

Building Scalable & High Performance Datamarts with MySQL

Location: Ballroom F

Tangirala Sarma (DW/BI Architect)

Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence is gaining mission critical status in managing today's enterprise. It is critical that these datamarts are built on good foundation. This tutorial focuses on design principles and techniques to build a solid foundation for datamarts using MySQL. Read more.

5:15pm - 6:00pm Tuesday, 04/15/2008

0 to 60 in 3.1

Location: Ballroom D

Tyler Carlton (QDial, Inc.), Cory Sessions (Nexation, Inc.)

We did it! Hear how we went from a third party database system to a 60G MySQL Cluster hosting large external web services and intensive internal data applications flawlessly, in three months. Read more.

2:00pm - 3:00pm Wednesday, 04/16/2008

Financial Informatics: Startup Low-cost Dataload Challenges and Solutions

Location: Ballroom D

Sean Kelly (Stumbleupon.com)

In this discussion we'll focus on the architecture, approaches, and challenges of cheaply loading the daily and historical stock market data into MySQL necessary for financial data applications. Read more.

3:05pm - 3:50pm Wednesday, 04/16/2008

Astronomy, Petabytes, and MySQL

Location: Ballroom B

Kian-Tat Lim (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will produce a 20 petabyte database. To support this huge database, we are investigating a new generic scalable architecture with MySQL as a core component. Learn how it can be used by others to manage extremely large databases. Read more.

3:05pm - 3:50pm Wednesday, 04/16/2008

Using User-defined Functions and Aggregates to Speed Up Your Data Warehouse Processing

Location: Ballroom C

Brian Miezejewski (MySQL), Mark Atwood (MySQL )

One of the most powerful, yet underutilized MySQL features are User Defined Functions and Aggregates. Learn how to use them to dramatically improve the speed of your data warehouse processing. Read more.

3:05pm - 3:50pm Wednesday, 04/16/2008

Creating Interactive OLAP Applications with MySQL Enterprise and Mondrian

Location: Ballroom G

Julian Hyde (Pentaho)

This session will describe the benefits and approach to building OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP) applications using MySQL Enterprise and Pentaho's Mondrian OLAP Project. Read more.

2:00pm - 2:45pm Thursday, 04/17/2008

Top 20 DB Design Tips Every Architect Needs to Know

Location: Ballroom B

Ronald Bradford (Independent Industry Expert)

Each database product has strengths and weaknesses. Having chosen MySQL as your database product, leverage the strengths of the product to maximize design and performance. Learn the things to avoid. Read more.

2:50pm - 3:35pm Thursday, 04/17/2008

Addressing Challenges of Data Warehousing - a Panel Discussion

Location: Ballroom E

Robin Schumacher (Sun/MySQL), Brian Miezejewski (MySQL), Charles Hooper (Pro Relational Systems), Paul Whittington (NitroSecurity, Inc.), Raj Cherabuddi (Kickfire), Victoria Eastwood (InfoBright Inc. )

A panel discussion hosted by Robin Schumacher that presents topics to a variety of data warehousing experts about issues concerning their industry. Read more.

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