Part 1 of the monitoring series: http://bit.ly/oursql074

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The next free Oracle Technology Network Developer Day for MySQL will be Thursday, February 9th, 2012 in Frankfurt, Germany. Register for free here.

Registration for Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo is open! The conference is from Tuesday, April 10th through Thursday, April 12th. Use code PL-pod and save 10% off the early bird prices!. Early bird pricing is only good for about 7 more weeks, so make sure to register soon!

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This week we kick off a multi-part series on monitoring. In this episode we discuss the MySQL Enterprise Monitor offering from Oracle and the MONyog offering from Webyog.

News
The Independent Oracle User Group is looking for nominations to the MySQL Council.

The next OTN Developer Day for MySQL will be Thursday, February 9th, 2012 in Frankfurt, Germany. Registration is free.

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This week we present a year in review for the MySQL Ecosystem, including updates from Oracle's MySQL, SkySQL, Percona and MariaDB.

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The MySQL developer’s room at FOSDEM has almost 40 submissions, and only about a dozen slots, so they need your vote to figure out what sessions will be presented. Send in your votes via twitter or e-mail, see Giuseppe's blog post and session descriptions.

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This week, we continue our discussion about MySQL and its forks. We discuss the Percona server and MariaDB.

Percona Live comes to Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. There is a 50% discount for students, faculty and staff of educational organizations, and a 35% discount for government employees. http://www.percona.com/live/dc-2012/

Percona Server
Percona software

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We called this podcast table manners because we are often asked what MySQL fork to use. This is part 1 of a 2-part series. This week we delve into Oracle's MySQL and Drizzle.

News:
There will be a "MySQL and Friends" devroom at FOSDEM 2012 in Brussels, Belgium on Sunday, February 5th, 2012. If you are interested in giving a talk, please submit it before December 26th through the submission form. There will also be a dinner on Saturday February 4th, for anyone making travel plans.

Last week we talked about the debian packages available for MySQL 5.5. We went looking for the packages and could not find the Debian drop-down for downloading MySQL 5.5, but we’re happy to report that the drop-down menu item is there now. …

In this episode we talk about the MySQL Master High Availability Agent, aka MHA.

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There will be a "MySQL and Friends" devroom at FOSDEM 2012. The dev room is scheduled for Sunday 5th February 2012, whole day. If you are interested to give a talk, please submit it before December 26th through the submission form. You can read the original announcement by Frédéric Descamps.

Meet the MySQL Experts Podcast

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News/Feedback
Last week we talked about how we learn and keep up to date with changes to MySQL. Mark Grennan of mysqlfanboy.com posted his own list of MySQL resources.

Call for papers for Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo 2012 is open until Monday, December 5th. To submit a paper, first register as a speaker at http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2012/user/register and then go to My Account -> Submit Proposal.

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In this podcast we talk about how to keep up with the MySQL ecosystem, and introduce a new segment. We invite you to let us know how you keep up, too. And we've updated our theme song!

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The Meet the MySQL Experts podcast is now on iTunes. So now you can subscribe to the feedburner feed or to the iTunes feed.

Call for papers for Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo 2012 is open until Monday, December 5th. The MySQL Conference & Expo is Tuesday April 10 - Thursday, April 12, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. To submit a paper, first register as a speaker at http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2012/user/register and then go …

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Call for papers for Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo 2012 is open until Monday, December 5th. The MySQL Conference & Expo is Tuesday April 10 - Thursday, April 12, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. To submit a paper, first register as a speaker at http://www.percona.com/live/mysql-conference-2012/user/register and then go to My Account -> Submit Proposal.

Normalization
Book: An Introduction to Database Systems by CJ Date

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This week, Gerry Narvaja guest hosts and we talk about star and snowflake schemas, as a follow-up to last week's podcast on Data Warehousing 101.

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FOSDEM has a call for papers open until Sunday, November 6th. FOSDEM is one of the largest free and non-commercial open source events, taking place in Brussels, Belgium on February 4th and 5th. There will be a Developer’s room that's near and dear to our hearts called "MySQL, MariaDB and friends".

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