The SF MySQL Meetup Group

Meetup Reviews

Reviews from
Goldilocks and The Three Queries -- MySQL's EXPLAIN explained on Wednesday Jan 25, 2012

Meetup Rating
4.507

Attendees
50
Felt vaguely like Oracle marketing. Didn't really teach me anything about explain that wasn't readily available with through minor web searching. Was really hoping to get into some of the nitty gritty of explain and how it aids with query optimization.
— Greg Garson
I think the audience had a range of questions from beginner to technical. So this kept it in the middle of the road for both sides.
— Keith Larson
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MySQL HA reloaded - old tricks and cool new tools to guarantee high availability on Wednesday Dec 7, 2011

Meetup Rating
5.009

Attendees
125
I am a bit biased here as I work with Ivan. I thought that it was a great mix of presentation and discussion. There was lots of great material added by people who were attending, as well as some great questions.
— Marc Sherwood
Really beneficial to me Thank! I wrote a blog post http://shinodogg.com/?p=3822 (Sorry in Japanese)
— Eiji Shinohara
Excellent presentation by Ivan Zoratti. Very clear and informational
— Giuseppe Maxia
Very interesting presentation last night...thanks for putting it together!
— Joseph Miller
Good Information!
— George J Johnson
Awesome meetup! Thanks.
— jcarlos
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Percona Toolkit on Tuesday Nov 15, 2011

Meetup Rating
4.5010

Attendees
70
excellent presentation and demos.
— Adam Prax
awesome toolset, nice additions to maatkit
— Frederic Jaeckel
Clear talk that covered all the tools but those we need the most in depth!
— erin
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MySQL scalability w/o sharding! Joins 10-100x faster! on Monday Oct 17, 2011

Meetup Rating
3.5011

Attendees
82
The information was easy to follow and digest as well.
— Albert Franklin
A little too much like a product pitch - other than the chance to ask questions I think I didn't learn much more than is on the web site. That said it is a very interesting product that I will investigate further so ultimately useful, just not the usual type of talk I'm used to.
— Simon
Good meeting, very good presentor
— Razi Sharir
Excellent meetup. The speaker knew his subject and how to make a presentation that was concise and strictly to the point. Plus the examples given were real world cases that most of the audience could understand and enjoy.
— Glenn Gregory
Sales pitch in tech talk clothing. Don't appreciate being misled.
— Dave
It could have been a great topic and should have been very instructional but rather it felt like a big commercial ad for a commercial (not even production-ready) product.
— Phil Freo
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Saturnalia DB - A distributed time series database designed for stats&analytics on Wednesday Sep 14, 2011

Meetup Rating
4.508

Attendees
68
Legendary.
— David Stainton
Saturnalia DB is promising time series database available as an open source project, and coming soon in a hosted solution http://www.statmover.com/
— nick peterson
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NoSQL Roundup on Tuesday Aug 9, 2011

Meetup Rating
4.5015

Attendees
220
nice topic, learned a lot. totally worth the two hours train time.
— Alicia
The talks were a bit dense for me. Was looking for more straight forward examples of how NoSQL solutions can be implemented. The Cassandra talk was particularly hard to follow. :\ Thanks for setting this up and providing the nice facilities for this though!
— Alex Ng
Good speakers on an interesting group of topics -- worth the time even though it was long. Great door prizes and lots of them! Crowd was kind of large, making it more like a conference seminar than what I think of as a meetup. Not having pizza was a nice change of pace, but arriving early was a key to getting any food at all.
— Lee Rosen
A very good meetup. Only have 2 suggestions : 1) For this type of meetup, a panel session with all 3 presenters taking Q/A would be very helpful in clarifying some of the differences of the 3 technologies presented. 2) I don't want to sound too cliche Northern Californian. But... Some food that herbivores could eat would have been great. All in all, one of the best MySQLUG meetups that I've been to. Thanks
— Phil Hontalas
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Lessons learned from managing way too many database servers on Tuesday Jul 12, 2011

Meetup Rating
4.008

Attendees
100
It was unfortunate the speak couldn't answer most of the questions.
— Simon
The presenter gave excellent bullet points about what works and what doesn't but he did not provide a good view into how facebook runs. "I can't answer that" resounded throughout the Q & A period.
— Tom Anderson
Was reassuring -- didn't realize big tech companies were so, "imperfect", shall we say! Would have preferred slightly lower level, maybe a few very specific case scenarios with details and how wultsch handled them, but it was still very worthwhile.
— Adam
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Understanding Indexing: Three rules on making indexes on Wednesday Jun 22, 2011

Meetup Rating
4.5010

Attendees
115
really helpful
— Alicia
This talk had me on the edge of my seat from start to finish. I learned more about indexes last night than I have the last ten years. Superb presentation!
— Tom Anderson
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Open Source BI Tools & MySQL -- Great looking reports quickly from your data on Tuesday May 3, 2011

Meetup Rating
4.008

Attendees
32
GREAT review of available software, using some already.
— Joseph C Jackson
excellent presentation, free food, can't ask for anything more
— Eric