[GRLUG] meeting

[Justin Denick]

How can I RSVP?

On 5/30/06, Al Tobey <tobert at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am doing a 45-60min presentation on setting up MySQL + DBD::mysql at
> Grand Rapids Perl Mongers on the last Friday of July.    We meet at
> the Priority Health Conference Center on the corner of Leonard and
> East Beltline.    All GRLUG people are welcome, of course.   No charge
> and lunch is provided (if you RSVP).
>
> I'll probably use a fresh server install of Ubuntu and MySQL 5.0 but
> do DBD::mysql straight off CPAN for demonstration purposes.
>
> http://grand-rapids.pm.org/
>
> -Al Tobey
>
> On 5/29/06, Szymon Machajewski <SMachaje at grcc.edu> wrote:
> > I appreciate the discussion of databases and maybe we should continue
> > this as one of the meeting agenda items.
> >
> > I wouldn't mind adding a MySQL topic to the presentations for a future
> > meeting.   Maybe backup techniques, 5.0 upgrade etc.
> >
> > If MS Access is part of the discussion it makes sens to also add the
> > OpenOffice Base desktop database.
> >
> >
> >
> > Szymon Machajewski
> >
> > Solutions Engineer / DBA
> > Red Hat Certified Engineer
> > Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
> > www.grcc.edu/smachaje
> >
> >
> > >>> billl at mtd-inc.com 5/28/2006 2:03:37 pm >>>
> > Yeah, I know MySQL can handle some big tasks, my statement was more
> > about manageability.
> > If your a small shop with one guy doing everything your gonna use what
> >
> > is easy to implement and/or cheap.
> > With our DB needs mostly being met by Access 2003, the only need for a
> >
> > DB server is to support eGroupware.
> > I think it's actually a pretty good statement about MySQL, that the
> > one-man-IT-dept. can use it and call it easy, and Wikipedia can use it
> >
> > to handle 8.4Gb. The truth be told, I wouldn't shy away from MySQL if
> > our needs grow to require a business critical DB backend. I would
> > definetely make sure I had good support for it though, but that goes
> > for
> > anything.
> > Bill
> >
> >
> > Tim Schmidt wrote:
> > > Damn.  Forgot the link:
> > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesDatabaseSize.htm
> > >
> > > On 5/27/06, Tim Schmidt <timschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> On 5/26/06, Bill Littlejohn <billl at mtd-inc.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> We're not big enough to use Oracle, or in fact any DBS bigger than
> > MSDE
> > >>> or MySQL.
> > >>>
> > >> So...  nothing bigger than the 8.4Gb Wikipedia is managing?
> > >>
> > >> Good to know.
> > >>
> > >> :)
> > >>
> > >> --tim
> > >>
> > >>
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