The PHPTek Conference bills itself as the premier professional PHP conference with a community flair. Having been to dozens of PHP conferences, I thought that was a pretty bold claim.

MySQL Boogiebot

But as they say in Texas, it ain’t bragging if you can do it.

MySQL plush dolphins and BoogieBots. The wind up dancing robots were popular in Chicago

And the organizers picked perfect weather for this Chicago based show.

The quality of the presenters and presentations was amazing high. Most of these sessions covered intricacies with the PHP language. The talks covered the range from

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Every so often you see something from the past and wonder “Why don’t we do that anymore?” Well, in this case it was a former co-worker wearing his MySQL Contributor shirt.

This is Antony Curtis in one of the original MySQL Community Contributor shirt

So the MySQL Community Team had a quick meeting and the result is that we are reestablishing the tradition. So if you have a signed Oracle Contributor Agreement and have contributed to MySQL, you should have in your inbox a request for your shirt size and a shipping address. If you do not see an email and you qualify for a short, let us know (we probably have an old email on record for you). And if you are working on some

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Come see out new cool ‘cryogenic dolphin’ at the MySQL Community Reception Monday. Come hear about the latest 5.6 news from MySQL Engineers, see Cluster on Raspberry Pis, and walk away with our giveaways. And did I mention it is FREE?!?!

Collaborate is a huge show that is the Independent Oracle User Group’s big yearly show and for 2013 it will be in Denver. There are several MySQL sessions of note and I have noted some below. By the way i will have new MySQL stickers available at the MySQL Demo Pod on the show floor but rules say I can not just leave them around — you will have to ask for them.

• Session #464 – Demystifying MySQL for Oracle DBAs and Developers
  Mon. Apr. 8 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
  Mile High Ballroom 2C

  Abstract: MySQL continues to be the world’s most popular database management system for the Internet. This session provides a fast-paced introduction to the MySQL architecture, core features, best practices, and core performance areas. A
  
  

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I will be speaking Sunday morning at the Northeast Gnu/Linuxfest in Cambridge, MA. And this year the OpenDB Camp is being held in conjunction. Plus it is a chance to meet those in the MySQL Marinate virtual class.

Come early to have pizza and network and then see a presentation and demo of the new features in MySQL 5.6.

RSVP to make sure we get a large enough room and sufficient pizza.

Pizza at 5:30 p.m.
Presentation begins at 6:00 p.m.

Oracle Corporation
6031 Connection Drive
Suite 900
Las Colinas, TX 75039
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SCaLE 11x’s MySQL track featured standing room only crowds on subjects from Beginning SQL, Indexes, HA, Credit Card Storage for PCI compliance, 5.6 new features, and how to solve Rubik cube-like puzzles with MySQL. Saturday and Sunday, we are Booth 71 and we are sharing the booth with the Los Angeles MySQL Users group. Come see MySQL 5.6 and workbench, get registered for the Virtual Developer Day, or just to say ‘hi’.

SCaLE 11xand the MySQL community are excited to bring you a full day track covering MySQL content. This event will be held February 22, 2013 at the LAX Hilton.

MySQL Users Group, please let us know you schedule so we can help promote your events. And if you are interested in starting a MySQL — let us know as we can help.

The MySQL Community Team wants to make sure you do not miss out on upcoming shows.

Fosdem is this coming weekend and there will be a MySQL and Friends devroom. This show in Brussels features presentations from Lars Thalmann, Sveta Smirnova, Luis Soares, Giuseppe Maxia, Øystein Grøvlen, and many more.

MySQL is a sponsor of the SunShine PHP and Ligaya Trumelle will be presenting on MySQL.

The Rocky Mountian orage Users Group will hold their

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Lenka and I are at Oracle HQ for the Oracle Leadership Summit. This event is the start of the calendar year for us and brings the leaders of Oracle user groups together to share information. From around the world, leaders of IOUG, OHUG, and other groups to share ideas. The concept used by the Boston MySQL User Group with MySQL Marinate has caught the attention of quite a few folks. The vast majority of IOUG folks also run MySQL in their data centers and they are interested in seeing local MySQL Groups flourish.

So if you are interested in starting a new MySQL Users Group, let me or Lenka know AND contact your local IOUG chapter. We can aid you in getting meeting space in an Oracle office and your local IOUG chapter can help with other organizational issues when startinga group.

And be sure to say ‘hi’ at the

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Keith Larson & myself (and now Lenka Kasparova) have been the MySQL Community Team for the past few years and we have traveled to a great many conferences and spoken many hours on MySQL. But we need your help. There are conferences all over that we can not attend or in many cases we are speaking but would like others to speak too! And many conferences are in a big need for speakers such as yourself.

Three upcoming shows are excellent opportunities and are actively seeing you as a presenter.

• FOSDEM is February 2nd and 3rd in Brussels, Belgium. There will be a special MySQL dev room and the call for papers ends on December

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Please help me welcome a new member of the MySQL Community Team. Lenka Kasparova is based in Prague and joined Oracle with Sun acquisition in 2009-2010. She was the Project Manager for R&D on FP7 grant project AEGIS where she was responsible for the financial/administrative aspects as well as day to day project management activities. At Sun Lenka was part of the NetBeans acquisition and went through several positions from administrative, HR, and Project Management area… “Both Sun and Oracle gave me a great opportunity to learn a lot of things which I am happy to use in my new position.”

So please look for Lenka at next MySQL Community Team event near you!

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I will be speaking on Saturday, October 6th at the Silicon Valley Code Camp on MySQL Replication and The Proper Care and Feeding of a MySQL Database for Linux Administrators. And then a few days later it is down to Austin for Kuali Days. Please be sure to say ‘hi’ is you are attending either event.

I will be hosting a Birds of a Feather Session at MySQL Connect on Saturday, Sep 29, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM – Hilton San Francisco – Golden Gate 8. This is an open discussion with you about what you would like to see from the MySQL Community Team, MySQL, and Oracle in the future. After it concludes, we can hit the Community Reception.

The original description of the Community BOF as provided to the Content Committee.

Come meet with the MySQL Community Team for a discussion about MySQL and the MySQL Community. This is an open session, so you can make suggestions, ask the questions you are having trouble getting answered, provide feedback, network, and help direct where the future of the MySQL Community will go. You will be able to

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PyTexas 2012 will be held in College Station this weekend. I will be speaking on MySQL Update — MySQL 5.6, Cluster 7.3, and Beyond and Seven Database Tricks.

Keep Austin Weird —

Keep Austin Weird is a popular saying in the capital of the State of Texas. The coming October those wishing to to help in these efforts can come hear me talk at Kuali Days 2012 about MySQL Database Administration or join the Austin MySQL Users Group to hear about MySQL 5.6 on October 15th! We’ll get some sort of RSVP for 15th set up so we can have enough pizza for all those on hand. Until then, fellow Texas, do not squat with your spurs on.

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The Boston MySQL Users Group meets tonight and I will be presenting on the new features in MySQL 5.6. And I will have two FREE passes to MySQL Connect! See you at the Microsoft NERD Center at 7!

I will be presenting at the North East PHP Conference August 11th and 12th and then the Boston MySQL Users Group on Monday the 13th, both at the NERD Center.

I will be Southern California next week at two public events in Los Angeles and San Diego. MySQL 5.6 Update on August 1st and MySQL: New Features, Programming Mistakes and Optimization on August 2nd. Both are in Oracle offices, start at 7PM, and there will be Pizza! Please be totally cool dudes and dudettes and RSVP so we can order enough pizza to keep things totally tubular! And there will be MySQL SWAG given away!

Save money on your ticket to MySQl Connect by registering on or before the 27th of July. This is your chance to talk to the engineers that write MySQL, the folks at the big companies who are doing amazing things with MySQL, and network with other MySQL-ers.

And you can catch the MySQL Community Team at these events:

• August 1st Los Angeles Moodle Moot
• August 1st Los Angeles MySQL Users Group*
• August 2nd San Diego PHP Users Group*
• August 11th-12th Northeast PHP Conference

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Come joins us at a Birds of a Feather Session at OSCON

Moderated by: Dave Stokes
7:00pm Wednesday, 07/18/2012
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MySQL is the most popular web database and last years MySQL BOF at OSCON attracted fifty people and ran well past the scheduled hour (so please put us early on the night and do not book the room right after). We had several big names in attendance as well as general users of the product. This was a valuable question and answer system for the MySQL developers and the community where both groups received lots of valuable information.

And we will have some free goodies to hand out!

I can not promise that all the MySQL Engineers and Staff at OSCON will be in attendance as 7PM PDT is too late/early for some of them.

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Did you ever wonder how the big companies run things behind the scenes? Come to the MySQL Connect Conference and learn from the best. There are over seventy sessions and the following session are from MySQL customers. And please note the early registration discount window is closing!

• Sheeri Cabral — Database Scaling at Mozilla andGoogle-Hacking MySQL
• Bradley Kuszmaul Chief Architect , MIT — Solving the Challenges of Big Databases with MySQL
• Andrew Aksyonoff Sphinx Technologies Inc — Full-Text Search with MySQL and Sphinx
• Daniel Austin Chief Architect , PayPal, Inc. — Big Data Is a Big Scam (Most of the Time)
• Eric Grancher DBA , Cern — CERN’s MySQL “as a Service” Deployment with Oracle VM:

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MySQL Connect is approaching and I started making note of the sessions I am going to want to attend. There are 77 great sessions and the following ten caught my interest. Hopefully I will see you in some of the following:

BOF8978 – MySQL Cluster: From Zero to One Billion in Five Easy Steps

Bernhard Ocklin – Director MySQL Cluster, Oracle
Andrew Morgan – MySQL Senior Product Manager, Oracle
Matthew Keep – MySQL Product Manager, Oracle

Of course it takes more than five steps to scale to more than one

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Techweek started today in Chicago with the mayor promising to change the name of the town from ‘he Second City’ to ‘The Startup City’. Those who want to start with MySQL should attend my MySQL Hands On Lab Saturday from 3:00 to 4:45 in 4-7 A/B.

If you are attending Chicago Tech Week this weekend, be sure to drop by the MySQL Hands On Lab Saturday (3:00pm – 4:45pm @ 4 – 7 A/B (222 Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, IL)) as I have some promotional items that I need to give away. Or catch me at Lone Star PHP, June 20 & 30th, where Oracle is sponsoring the second year of this event.

Come join the Los Angeles MySQL Users group on August 1st for a look at MySQL 5.6 and help make some pizza disappear. The presentation will start at 7PM and all are welcome. I will be speaking earlier in the day at the LA Moodle Moot and then heading down Highway 5 the next day for the San Diego Users Group.

200 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Suite 400
El Segundo, CA 90245

Do not forget to register for the free Webcast of MySQL Innovation Day.

Abstracts

Better Availability with InnoDB Online Operations
Calvin Sun, Sr. Development Manager for InnoDB, Oracle Many top Web properties rely on MySQL as a critical piece of infrastructure to serve millions of users. Therefore, database availability has become increasingly important. One way to enhance availability is to allow users full access to the database during DDL operations. The online DDL operations in recent MySQL releases offer users the flexibility to perform schema changes while allowing users full access to

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The South East Linux Fest is next week in Charlotte, North Carolina and will feature a MySQL day on Friday with two FULL tracks.

MySQL Tracks for SELF

This will be followed on Sunday by the Open Database Unconference. And did I mention this is all free? Plus there will be other tracks on Linux, FOSS, and many vendors present.  This is an amazing show and you really need to be there.

This is a great opportunity to hear from some of the best and the brightest presenters in the MySQL Community. We managed to get a few MySQL Engineers to head East after

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

Effective MySql’s Ronald Bradford explaining Explain

Ronald Brafdord explaining Explain[/caption] Ronald Bradford started the day on backup and recovery and then had a second session on optimizing queries. George Trujillo had a session on demystifying MySQL for Oracle DBAs and Developers. Lastly, I preseted on SQL and NoSQL. If you live in the greater Dener area, you shoudl make sure you take part in the next RMOUG meeting.

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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

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