Stephen O’Grady writes: In an event short on bottled water but long on reliable wireless, MySQL proved much to this first time User Conference attendee. Not that I came in as a disbeliever, of course: even before they (smartly ;) became RedMonk clients, MySQL impressed me as a project that possessed that rare awareness not only of where it was but where it could get to. The past three days have nothing but reinforce that assessment; it’s tough to disbelieve, after all, when all you hear from its developers, partners, hell, even competitors, is that the product is, to borrow Dan Patrick’s words, en fuego.

Find out the five things that Stephen learned on RedMonk.com.