Interesting results you can see from some low quality news aggregators Looking at this page you might think that I’m awarded with the Liberty Medal:

I’ve got this link while browsing the search results for RAC Attack. I guess should ask my granddad to pass my best wishes to Mr. George H.W. Bush.

So, we have all heard that Billy Joel played a concert at Oracle’s OpenWorld in 2007.

What follows is an actual IRC conversation among Don Seiler, Dave Edwards, and myself:

(4:02:46 PM) don: ha @ Billy Joel at OOW
(4:03:38 PM) dave: “We didn’t fire the startup…”
(4:07:53 PM) don: “we didn’t start the backup”?
(4:12:53 PM) dave: “Don’t go changin’ . . . your slave and master”
(4:20:19 PM) ***sheeri shoots Dave
(4:20:49 PM) sheeri: “I don’t want clever replication, we never could have come this far”
(4:24:05 PM) sheeri: “And the server sounds like an aero-plane, and replication chugs along as it must…and the inserts go on, replication corrupts, and I say “Man, now I’m workin’ all night!”

(4:24:29 PM) dave: “I said ‘ls -u’ . . . that’s for access”
[”I said I love you . . . that’s forever”]

(4:24:30 PM) don: UP-TIME GIRL
(4:34:09 PM) dave: “Say it’s not wrong, execution plan!”
(4:43:39 PM) sheeri: Where’s my execution plan, oh man?
[Sing us a song of a piano man]
(4:45:52 PM) sheeri: Go ahead with your schema, leave me alone!

Comment here with your own database-themed parody of a Billy Joel song. Perhaps if we get enough MySQL-themed entries, we can get him to come to the MySQL Conference in April.

That and maybe thousands of dollars………..

I didn’t realize that it’s been a month since I got back from Lalandia (it feels like it was yesterday), and I still have something to finish blogging about. Shame on me!

My evening at the Lalandia Waterpark is probably one the most exciting time I had in Denmark. The Waterpark adventures started right after the Gala Dinner. It was a pleasure after dinner to dive into a hot tub and sip cold cocktails. Not only was it it a pleasure for our bodies but for our minds as well. In the photo below, you can see us discussing Tapio Lahdenmäki’s presentation on indexing.

If Jonathan Lewis and Cary Milsap are impressed with Tapio’s work — you can be sure it’s worthwhile to read (twice) his book, take his masterclass, or attend one of his presentations.

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