The Roucky Mountain Oracle Users Group’s MySQL Special Interest Group met today for four presentations.

Effective MySql’s Ronald Bradford explaining Explain

The MySQL Connect conference call for papers is closed and the response was amazing. Now the problem is that we have a few hundred great session and only two days and nights to get everything presented. The submissions range from the big companies to private individuals and old, familiar faces in the MySQL Community to some new folks with top notch material.

Database as a service, cloud computing, tuning, InnoDB secrests, cluster implementation, Oracle/MySQL data transfers, replication tricks, query enhancement, big data, stored routines, J2ee, server refactoring, backups, NoSQL/SQL, and other subjects are covered — and those were just the first

The Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group MySQL SIG is meeting May 18th in Building 1 of the Oracle Broomfield Campus. Speakers include Ronald Bradford, Dan Hotka, Donald Schaefer, David Peake, and George Trujillo.

The South East Linux Fest is happening June 8th through the 10th and will feature Beginner MySQl Training Day, Advanced MySQl Training Day, the Open Database Camp, as well as Free & Open Source software based topics. Registration is FREE and I hope to see you in Charlotte!

SELF Schedule

MySQL Connect will be held this September before Oracle Open World and time is running out for you to submit your presentation. There are tracks on Application Development, Architecture and Design, Cloud Computing, Database Administration, High Availability, and Performance & Scaling.

You’ll need between 15-40 slides for an hour presentation (sixty minute session, leave ten or so minutes for Q&A). The submission software lets you stop and save before submission, just in case you need to do some research while create your submission. And once you submit, you can go back and edit so

Collaborate 12 is in Vegas and Collaborate 13 will be in Denver. Mark your calendars now!

The MySQL sessions at Collaborate started strong after an amazing keynote by former astronaut Mark Kelly about working to become a naval aviator, astronaut, and helping his wife — Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords — after an assassination attempt on her life last year.

A rare moment when the Oracle demo pods where not wall to wall people.

First up was Set up MySQL in Five Minutes by Bob Burgess of Radian6. Most of the attendees to these sessions seem to be long time Oracle DBAs looking to add more MySQL skills or long time Oracle AND MySQL DBAs. Bob then had a second session and covered Shell Scripting for MySQL Administration where most

Collaborate is in Las Vegas next and the MySQL Community Team will be there promoting MySQL. Keith Larson and I are presenting two sessions on MySQL for Oracle DBAs or How to Speak MySQL for Beginners. More and more Oracle DBAs are discovering MySQL among their corporate infrastructure and need a little guidance to walk them through some of the differences between Oracle 11g and MySQL. Several years ago, the IOUG said 70% of their members use MySQL and it should be much higher by now. Please drop by the demo between sessions!

Be sure to register for Oracle MySQL Innovation Day before space is filled. The list of presenters is still being finanlized but please beleve me that the lsit includes some very detailed presentations from MySQL Engineers. If you want heavy duty tech talks on MySQL, do not miss this show.

The MySQL Community Team won a MySQL Community Awards: Corporate Contributor award. On behalf my fellow MySQL Community Manager Keith Larson and myself, we would like to thank those who apprecaited our efforts. But it is not just Keith and I — we have a strong team that is achored by amazing developers, marketeers, salespersons, managers, engineers of several varieties, and many more hard working folks who regularly make us look good. Lots of hard work of folks you do not see at conferences go into making being on the MySQL Community Team look good.

With this award the panel wishes to acknowledge the Oracle MySQL Community team especially for the free tech tours and

The MySQL Connect Conference call for papers will open on April 16, 2012 for approximately three weeks. We are looking for those of you in the community who want to present on what you are doing with MySQL in the areas of Performance and Scalability, High Availability, Cloud Computing, Architecture and Design, Database Administration, and Application Development. This will be an amazing show and we want you to be a part of it — so write up a session description and you have until the 16th to make it shine!

I will be at SITE, The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, on Wednesday March 7th presenting Teaching Database Concepts with Open Source Software. There has been a time change to 5:15 P.M. so please note the change. My colleagues are probably tired of me talking about ‘preaching to the converted’ at Open Source conferences and hopefully the MySQL theme will resonate with teachers. Schools are facing ever smaller budgets and dwindling resources. So hopefully the idea of Open Source software can catch on there and MySQL can become even more

I will be speaking at Confoo this Friday on The Care and Feeding of a MySQL Database and Explain. And the week after, I will be in Austin for the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education conference presenting Teaching Database Concepts with Open Source Software on the 7th from 6:30 to 8:00 PM before heading off to 6th Street (Y’all welcome to join me!).

And thanks to all the folks who attended PHP UK for making Andres, Johannes and me so welcome last week.

The PHP UK 2012 has started and the three meetings rooms are packed. The show continues on Saturday the 25th where you cam catch me talking about the latest changes in MySQL at 1400, Johannes Schluter sharing the secrets of PHP under the hood at 1600, and then both of us are on a panel SQL versus NoSQL at 1650. If you are in the area, be sure to drop by!

I will be speaking on new MySQL features at the PHP UK conference on February 25th in London. A few days later on march 3rd, I will be presenting the Care and Feeding of a MySQL Database at Confoo in Montreal. If you are attending either event, please introduce yourself!

Fellow Community Manager Keith Larson and I working hard to keep up with all the upcoming shows. If you think we might have not notices your upcoming event, please drop us a line. We will have thumb drive, baggage tags, stickers, and maybe (fingers crossed) t-shirts or plush dolphins soon.

MySQL Day at SCaLE

Thanks to Lynn Ferrante, Keith Larson, Colin Charles and Max Mether for presenting. And thanks for those who attended the sessions. Sorry we didn’t have more seats and we will see what we can do for 2013!

SCaLE runs for two more days and there are a few more MySQL sessions scheduled. If you are in the area of

Keith Larson and I will be at SCaLE at the LAX Hilton Friday until Sunday. Yes, we have swag and want to get your feedback. Don’t forget the Friday night BOF session.

And we also will be at the San Francisco MySQL Users Group where I will present Goldilocks and the Three Queries — MySQL EXPLAIN Explained on Wednesday the 25th.

In between, we will be attending the Oracle Leaders Summit. This is an unique event where the leaders of the users groups of various Oracle Family Products meet to discuss better ways of organizing user communities. This year we are lucky to have MySQL leaders from Asia, Europe and the Americas attending.

SCALE is going to top off a day of MySQL session on January 20th with a Birds of a Feather Session at 18:00 in the Century AB room. Come meet the MySQL Community Team and lets talk MySQL!

SCaLE is the premier open source event in Southern California and the dedicate staff works hard to keep the price down to $70 including an amazing Expo. For those of you out of the Los Angeles area, the event is at the LAX Hilton and you can take the shuttle buss and never leave the hotel (except to visit Carl’s Junior next door for a Western Bacon Cheeseburger) or fight traffic on the infamous 405 freeway.

I will be at Zendcon next week with two presentations. What’s New with MySQL will be on Wednesday the 19th and The Care and Feeding of a MySQL Database on Thursday the 20th.

Other MySQL centric session are by Bill Karwin on SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies and MySQL 5.5 InnoDB Tuning. Plus Ligaya Turmelle will present Character Sets Suck.

The MySQL Community Sessions at Oracle are going great. Good crowds, lots of questions about MySQL at the kiosk, and great presentations. Here Sarah Novotny gets camera time. I am not sure if her new show will be called ‘Two and a half DBAs’ or ‘The Big Data Theroy’.

I will be presenting at Oracle Open World but my presentation is not designed for a MySQL Audience. MySQL for Oracle DBAs or Speaking MySQL for Beginners will help Oracle DBAs embrace MySQL. Many Oracle shops also have MySQL and 11G or RAC DBAs can easily add MySQL skills to their existing set but can benefit from some gentle nudges in the right direction to get them started. Look for Session 15143 on Tuesday at 3:30 in Golden gate B at the Marriott Marquis. And do not forget the community reception after!

Oracle Technology Network Developer Day MySQL – Washington will be held Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel (999 Ninth Street NW Washington, DC 20001). And it is FREE!

I will be presenting The Care and Feeding of a MySQL Database for Linux System Administrators at Linuxcon. This is a short talk on what Linux Admins can do to get their MySQL instances performing properly, where to budget your server money, and some other tips to make life easier. It can not turn a good system admin into a good DBA no more than a 40 minute talk on being a Linux Admin will make a DBA a good Linux Admin. But it is a good overview of the subject. And for the sake of the environment, I will be recycling all my old jokes again. So see you Friday, 3:00 in Plaza B in the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver.

Using MySQL 5.6? Tell us what you think!

The MySQL Community Team would like to know what you folks using MySQL 5.6 think of the new features. From time to time we would like to quiz you admittedly good looking and brilliant group about how MySQL 5.6 is being evaluated, if it is solving problems that previously existed, and just how well it works for you. We need feedback from you cutting edge explorers to improve the breed. So please reply to this blog or send me a note at David.Stokes AT Oracle.

For those that missed the announcements, previews of MySQL 5.6 are available at http://labs.mysql.com for you to evaluate. The software is not ready for production but does feature new features like Full Text Search InnoDB tables, Binary Log API, Binary Log Group Commit, multi-thread slaves, memcached-to-InnoDB and more. So please try a copy

I will be presenting Care and Feeding of a MySQL Server for Linux Adminstrators twice in August. The first is August 2nd at the Oracle Office in Frisco, Texas at 4:30 PM (Suite 300 ,7640 Warren Parkway, Frisco, TX). We will have refreshments, door prizes, and a discussion about having a meeting (or two) in the Irving office.

Come be cool with us!

The second will be August 19th, in Plaza B, Hyatt Regency Vancouver at 3PM at Linuxcon North America.

This presentation developed from requests from Linux Administrators who know MySQL runs great on commodity hardware. But they want to make sure that they get their servers set up to get the best possible

OSCON Attendees — Drop by the MySQL Community Birds of a Feather session Monday night. We start at 9:00 PM in room A103/104 and we will have MySQL t-shirts and stickers giveaways! This is your chance to network, ask questions, meet new friends, and give Oracle your feedback. This is your time to talk about MySQL 5.5/5.6, cluster, certification or anything else related as it as open discussion on MySQL. And it may be you chance to grab one of the rare, limited edition and rapidly disappearing MySQL 5.5 t-shirts.

And be sure to attend the MySQL sessions from my colleagues! PHP & MySQL — recent developments, Binary Log API — A library for change data capture using MySQL, and

Oracle Open World has a MySQL track this year and you can submit session proposal and vote on proposed sessions until June 19th!1 Please vote to help determine what you will see at OOW.

Before the regular OOW sessions, on Sunday October 2nd, MySQL will have two simultaneous tracks for Community Sunday. Session speakers are also needed and we do have two rooms to fill. So dust off that presentation idea you have been working on and get it polished. If you would like to present at on Sunday, please let me know and I will pass on the information to the MySQL Community Sunday Organizers.

And we will have a MySQL booth in the USer Group Area for you to

Dolphin shirts available at an event near you!

Not going to either of those show? Then keep

Every so often, the members of the MySQL Community Team look back at the previous business year to help plan for events for the next business year. Last year Giuseppe, Lenz, and I visited Boston, San Francisco, Brussels, Dubai, Sydney, Los Angeles, Wellington, Lisbon, Prishtina, Madrid, Birmingham, Columbia, Santa Clara, Nuremberg, Orlando, and other cities. This includes shows like the Open DBA Camp, Collaborate, FOSDEM, UKOUG, POSSCON, SCaLE, DOAG, SAPO CodeBits, and several local user groups. We travel so much to spread the word about MySQL and to find out from you how to make MySQL better.

We continuously search for events but we may have missed yours. If you have an event coming up on the calendar, please drop me a line just to make sure it gets on our list. You can expect to find us at events like Oracle Open