What would you like to hear from me in MySQL Conf?
By Osma on Saturday 21 March 2009, 15:09 - Permalink
I'm going to be talking in MySQL Conf 2009 about our business intelligence and data warehousing solutions for Habbo. Since this blog is syndicated on Planet MySQL, and I presume many of the people going to the conference read it, here's a question: would you like to hear about the why's of our technology selection (eg, IT management level questions), the techniques we use for analysis (for the BI analyst or startup technologist), or about the nuts and bolts of the database implementation itself (for the DBAs in the crowd)? I'm going to be touching on all three aspects, perhaps more, but can and will focus on one of the areas in more detail.
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Assuming you mostly will talk about Infobright, I'm certainly most interested simply in a real life story on how it is different and why. Which problems did it solve better than the alternatives and were there some things it is not good at? Benchmarks, actual queries you need to do, numbers... The usual stuff that is interesting for people that develop against a database.
As a distant second I'm interest in anyting more high level BI, data mining, personalisation, recommendation algorithms, whatnot...
The first wish is purely professional related, the second more personal (but always "nice to know").
I'm certainly not gonna stay there listening to you telling us where you can download IB, how to install it etc :-)
Thanks Henrik. As for your final concern, no worries - I'm not an educator, and I hate running tutorials, so you'll see nothing of the sort from me.
And apologies for the downtime yesterday - Gandi.net's blog hosting service seems to have these at random. Should really look at converting this blog to some other platform.