Like most research labs, we rely on MySQL whenever we need a database. And like most (I’m guessing, here), it’s common to overhear something like the following in our lab — “We really need to replace MySQL with Oracle or DB2 in X so it can handle the load.” But we never get around to it.

Maybe we don’t have to. Check out Scaling MySQL at YouTube, a keynote talk by YouTube DBA Paul Tuckfield at the 2007 MySQL Conference put online by Conversationnetwork.org.