Re: OSCon Update

It sounds like they want to do "all things" under the mysql banner. Does
that sound right to you guys?

Robert Treat wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 13:19, scott.marlowe wrote:
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>>On 9 Apr 2004, Robert Treat wrote:
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>>>I haven't given things a thorough look over yet, but I did notice that
>>>Joe Celko will be presenting (it's on the my$ql track of all places),
>>>which might be of interest to PostgreSQL users... in fact, Josh, do you
>>>know if we can get that tagged into our track as well? It doesn't
>>>conflict with anything in our track AFAICS.
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>>Yeah, a tutorial on Advanced SQL in the MySQL Track?  and it covers things
>>like check() constraints.   Seems like there should just be a plain
>>"database tutorials" track, as his being part of MySQL makes little or no
>>sense.
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>Actually looking at it a bit more, this does seem like a mistake because
>there is another my$ql specific tutorial going on at the same time...
>"Data Warehousing with MySQL and OSS Tools"... while our track has no
>tutorial at that time.
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>>I'm pretty sure Joe is on one or two of our mailing lists, so if he sees
>>this maybe he can clarify why they put him on the MySQL list instead of
>>Postgresql or firebird.  I'm certain MySQL is NOT his favorite open source
>>database.
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