The 2-hour presentation is about half slides and half demo. Throughout the course of the presentation I set up a simple master-slave. Then I add a second slave. Taking it a step farther I set up the three servers to replicate in a chain, and finally I configure them to replicate in a full circle so that changes made on one are propagated to all of the others. I intentionally do things that break replication at certain points to show some of the limitations and configurable features that can help it to work.

Slides for the presentation are available OpenOffice format.

The presentation was recorded, so hopefully the SELF team will have those videos available shortly.

It started out with a simple table for kids who were either naughty or nice. We then added some reports to that. Then imported kids’ wish lists from CSV files. From there we were able to generate some manufacturing reports for the workshop.

When we joined the wish list table with the kids table, we were then able to generate a sleigh-loading report which included only gifts for kids who had been good. Then we got even more complicated and introduced several joins with some complicated mathematics to select gifts for kids within a certain radius from a given zip code.

The presentation is available for download here. And Brian recorded part of the presentation which is available to view on uStream.tv or here. (We’re still experimenting with getting the video recording set up correctly)