OOW17 is just around the corner. And again this year the MySQL team is very proud to present you their work mostly on MySQL 8.0 but also on NDB and all Enterprise tools we have. This year, we will also focus on the place MySQL has in Oracle’s Cloud !

Of course MySQL’s Community is also present in the schedule with very interesting talks. The full schedule related to the MySQL sessions can be found here.

Let’s focus on the agenda for the event:

Sunday, October 1st Moscone South Room 160

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From September 25th to 27th 2017, the MySQL engineers and community team will be speaking at Percona Live Europe in Dublin.

MySQL is also part of the contributing sponsors.

For the conference, we tried to bring new faces to the Community. Usually, it’s always the same famous team leaders speaking at the conferences, this time, it’s not. A lot of key developers will present their own work. We have so much talented people in MySQL we want to present to our community.

Of course, once again we will focus our talks on MySQL 8.0. This is the list of sessions the MySQL Team will deliver:

Monday, Sep 25th

On Monday, I will deliver a tutorial with my friend …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

We are five weeks out to the conference! The tutorials and the sessions have been released, and there’s an added bonus – you can now look at all this in a grid view: tutorials, day one and day two. Now that you can visualize what’s being offered, don’t forget to register.

If you want a discount code, feel free to email me at …

The ConFoo Team is pleased to announce the opening of its call for paper for its Montreal event.

To celebrate its 15th anniversary, CooFoo will be focusing its 2018 Montreal edition on “Experiment & Learn”. Indeed, as Montreal is becoming one of the world emerging AI advanced research centers, disrupting the global innovation scene, we are particularly interested in gathering and exchanging with developers in the AI community.

If you live in Montreal you can be proud ambassadors of this innovative mindset that pervades the developers’ ecosystem. If you come from elsewhere you obviously have a passion for data learning, model development, and the various industries to apply your knowledge (healthcare, finance, automotive…)

Don’t miss this unique opportunity to share your experience with passionate developers. Whether in artificial intelligence or other …

MySQL is proud to announce that we are going to support and actively attend a very unique event BuzzConf in Australia. It’s hold on December 1-3, 2017 in Phoenix Park, AU.
BuzzConf is a family-friendly technology festival with a really unique atmosphere – all participants and presenters spend the weekend together in country Victoria, learning and playing with tech during the day and being entertained by live music all night!
Whether you want to give a talk, run a workshop, lead a kids track session, or entertain the masses during the festival, BuzzConf wants to hear from you!

The Call for Presenters runs until August 4, so there’s not long to get an idea in – but plenty of time to nut out all the final details should an idea from your community be selected for the program.
Find out what makes BuzzConf different at  …

The MySQL Community team will be supporting the following events during the summer and we will be present at some of them ! Please come to visit us ! Northeast PHP August 9-11, 2017, Charlottetown, PEI Canada   We are happy to invite you to Northeast PHP where MySQL Community team is having a booth. Please find David Stokes, the MySQL Community Manager at MySQL booth in expo area. Dave also submitted a talk on “JSON, Replication, and database programming” which we hope will be accepted. Please watch the conference agenda for further updates.   We are looking forward to talking to you there! More information / registration: http://2017.northeastphp.org/ UbuCon LA  Lima, Peru, August 18-19, 2017   MySQL Community team is supporting this event as …

Time is running out to submit a talk for OpenWorld 2017 that will table place on October 1–5, 2017 in San Francisco, CA.  If you are looking for inspiration on what talk to submit, we encourage you to submit a case study.  We would love to hear how you are using MySQL as part of your data platform, and your experiences in upgrading to InnoDB Cluster with MySQL 5.7.  Talks on how you are testing MySQL 8.0 are also welcome

The call for papers will be open until May 1st 2017.  Please submit now!

The MySQL team is constantly improving and innovating the product… this time, after having put particular attention to DBAs and operators with Group Replication & InnoDB Cluster,  let’s have a look to what we can also bring to developers.

Let’s start with the following challenge:

Add 5 books from scratch with all their metadata (authors, isbn, edition, year, …) in last than 5 minutes using only MySQL Shell in command line !

Do you thinks this is not possible ? Check the video below:

Amazing isn’t it ?

If you want to learn more about this, please attend Mike Zinner & Alfredo Kojima’s session at Percona Live next week:

Want to get your web development ideas in front of a live audience? The
call for papers for the ConFoo Vancouver 2017 web developer conference is open! If you have
a burning desire to hold forth about PHP, databases, JavaScript, or any
other web development topics, we want to see your proposals. The window is
open only from April 10 to May 8, 2017, so hurry. An added benefit: If your
proposal is selected and you live outside of the Vancouver area, we will
cover your travel and hotel.

You’ll have 45 minutes for the talk, with 35 minutes for your topic and
10 minutes for Q&A. We can’t wait to see your proposals!

Until the talks are picked, the price for the tickets will be at its
lowest. Once …

Welcome to another post in the series of Percona Live featured session blogs! In these blogs, we’ll highlight some of the session speakers that will be at this year’s Percona Live conference. We’ll also discuss how these sessions can help you improve your database environment. Make sure to read to the end to get a special Percona Live 2017 registration bonus!

In this Percona Live featured session, we’ll meet the folks at SelectStar, a database monitoring and management tool company. SelectStar will be a sponsor at Percona Live this year.

I recently came across the SelectStar database monitoring product. There are a number of monitoring products on the market (with the evolution of various SaaS and …