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I have been attempting to be better about letting folks in the general MySQL world know when the videos from the Boston MySQL User Group are up. We have a great group, with anywhere from 20-50 attendees each month, and the speakers are always great, even when the group asks some tough questions.* Thanks to the generous donation of time that Richard Laskey puts in editing the videos, there are 2 videos I can share with you:

Ivan Zoratti of SkySQL presented MySQL HA Reloaded at the December MySQL Boston Users Group. Slides are online at http://www.slideshare.net/izoratti/ha-reloaded-11261643

Tim Callaghan of Tokutek presented Fractal Tree Indexes -- Theoretical Overview and Customer Use Cases at the January MySQL Boston Users Group.

The next meeting is Monday, February 13th from 7-9 pm and will feature "Scaling MySQL with Transparent Database Sharding", by Victoria Dudin of ScaleBase. RSVP for the free meeting here or wait until the video comes out, if you are not local.

* The group is really great about RSVP'ing too -- we usually get the approximate number of folks RSVP'd actually showing up. I recently went to a local user group that had over 100 people RSVP' and only about 1/3 of them showed up. I guess if you know the pattern you know how to 'read' the numbers, but as a speaker I would have been disappointed to expect an audience of 100 and have an audience of 30.

Then again, maybe the speaker was informed of this...I have no clue. I guess what I am trying to say is that I really appreciate the Boston group!