Some of you might know that for more than two years we have had an office in Sydney, Australia. Last year, I had the pleasure to travel there to present at the AUSOUG conference and work from our office in Sydney. It’s been a huge pleasure, especially if you consider what was going on back [...]

I’d like to share some great news — The Pythian Group and Open Query have become partners!
Open Query is a leading provider of high-quality MySQL and PostgreSQL training in Australia and New Zealand. They offer consulting services too, and are also know for their MySQL Graph Storage Engine. Feel free to browse through Open [...]

If MySQL DBA from Pythian goes to Oracle Open World, it would be a shame not to send an Oracle bloke, so there I am — presenting a 90-minutes session on the first day of the OOW 08 entitled Under the Hood of Oracle Clusterware.
I gave it during RAC Attack in Chicago and I’m pretty [...]

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.

It’s all over now and I can’t describe how tired I am. As I type it, my flight from Chicago is delayed by 1.5 hour so far (the third delay already, 30 minutes each). I should say that I hate Chicago airport but I digress.
Last night, I left my presentation in a good state and [...]

I should say that I had interesting experience this evening — a tornado warning in downtown Chicago.
The alarms went off as soon as we tried to get out of the restaurant. Below is a year old example but it sounded exactly like that + it was much darker — like if the skies fell [...]

Just a quick note that I’m going to present two sessions on the RAC Attack! event in Chicago next week — 4-5 August 2008. The event is organized as two threads — one for advanced RAC DBA’s and another one for beginners. Each thread will have one day of hands-on labs and one day of [...]