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As pointed out by Schlomi Noach on my last blog, MySAR was already taken by a project related to Squid reports with MySQL. I decided then to look for a new name, and as I posted initially, I want to keep the sar prefix to describe the script’s purpose by association with the OS utility of the same name. I brainstormed many names. I liked Dave Edwards’s suggestion: SARkila, but it sounds too close to tequila, so I settled with Sheeri Cabral’s suggestion: sar-sql.

The title of the Launchpad page already reflects the change. What remains to be done is: a) change the name of the Perl script and documentation; and b) change the Launchpad URL. It is likely that I will change the name of the script when I release version 1.x (see below). I’m not sure of all the implications in Bazaar regarding the URL change, so that task will have to wait for now.

Now a little more info on the status of the project. Read the rest of this entry . . .

In record time, less than a week after the conference (thanks to the free Pinnacle Video Spin and YouTube), all 11 videos that were taken at OpenSQLCamp Europe are online.

For those who missed the sessions, or just want to relive the fun!

Almost all the sessions were filmed; regrettably Darren Cassar’s Securich – MySQL user administration and security made easy! and Stephane Combaudon’s Minimizing data access with covering indexes were not.

The YouTube videos have the descriptions and resources from the official conference pages, and links to pages. If there is more information to add (for example, the slides from a talk are now online), or if you spot an error, please feel free to add a comment on the YouTube video, or as a comment to this blog post.

• YouTube Playlist for all 11 OpenSQLCamp videos

Individual presentations:

• Spider: Sharding for the Masses – Giuseppe Maxia
• A Better mysqltuner – Sheeri Cabral (my session!)
• Getting acquainted with Apache Derby – Kristian Wagaan
• New kid on the block: The BlackRay Data Engine — Felix Schupp
• MySQL High Availability Solutions — Lenz Grimmer
• Bringing Master/Slave into the 21st Century using Tungsten Database Clustering — Linas Virbalas
• PBXT: Technology trends that affect your database — Vladimir Kolesnikov
• MySQL Proxy: a MySQL toolbox – Architecture and concepts of misuse — Jan Kneschke
• Galera Replication, multi-master synchronous replication for MySQL — Seppo Jaakola
• Panel Discussion: The OSS Toolshed Shootout Speakers and technologies: Sheeri K. Cabral – MySQL; Holger Klemt – Firebird; Felix Schupp – BlackRay; Kristian Waagan – Apache Derby (JavaDB); Lenz Grimmer – moderator; Kore Nordmann – CouchDB; Andreas ‘ads’ Scherbaum – PostgreSQL (this was a fun panel to be on)
• Firebird – a really free database used in free and commercial projects — Holger Klemt

Enjoy!

This is the 150th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Someone accidentally left Dave Edwards’ cage unlocked, and he escaped, thus leaving me with the pleasurable duty of compiling the 150th weekly Log Buffer.

Many people other than Dave are finding release this week. Read the rest of this entry . . .

OpenSQL Camp is a free unconference happening Friday, Nov. 14th through Sunday, Nov. 16th in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA. More details can be found at http://www.opensqlcamp.org.

Whether or not you have already registered for OpenSQL Camp by putting your name here:

http://www.opensqlcamp.org/index.php?title=Events/2008/AttendeeList

you should be aware of very important information.
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