Hi everyone,
this is my first blog entry and my maiden language is french, so, it is not as easy as it should be. Also, I will never pretend being a good writer so, be warned. I joined MySQL earlier in July as a senior consultant and I have created this blog at the suggestion of Ronald Bradford, a senior consultant on the same team as I am. I am just back from vacation and I currently flying to Cupertino CA for a performance tuning and high availability course. I am rather new to MySQL so I hope to learn a lot, especially from the performance tuning part. What I really like from MySQL is the scalability it allows, I don’t know any other generally available database that allows a similar scaling.

I spend my last week of vacation doing camping with my wife and three daughters at the Oka national park camping near Montreal. It’s a very nice camping in a mature forest maid of large pines and oak trees. I have to say, there are some mosquitoes but not too much, I’m still alive. The fun part with camping is the low level of stress and slow life rhythm but you have to accept a relatively low comfort and a smelly camp fire smoke perfume. I was wondering why camping was so popular. Of course there are what I just mention, the low stress life and the contact with the nature. But I believe there is something more when I saw at night, at every lot in the camping, people burning wood in a camp fire. Is it because, one million years ago, our ancestors where making fires to heat them and protect them against wild animal? Maybe there are traces of this in our genes, there is something fascinating about a camp fire. For the rest, sleeping outside on a rather… hard ground, maybe we just want to prove to ourselves that we are able to survive with limited resources. Anyway, I’m a computer science specialist, not an anthropologist.
That’s all for my first time.