Friends,

I want to remind you, to let us know if you would like to come for the dinner at Pedro’s on Tuesday April, 23.

Actually ALL of you should come !

Pedro’s is asking us to have a better idea of the number of participants, so please go to this page “MySQL Community Dinner at Pedro’s 2013”

and subscribe.

We want to have all of you enjoy the evening with us, subscribe & come!

Once again, Pythian is organizing an event that by now may be considered a tradition: The MySQL community dinner at Pedro’s! This dinner is open to all MySQL community members as many of you will be in town for the MySQL Conference that week.

Here are the details:

What: The MySQL community pay-your-own-way dinner
When: Tuesday April, 23 – Meet us at 6:30 pm in the lobby of the Hyatt Santa Clara, or at 7 pm at Pedro’s (you are welcome to show up later too!)
Where: Pedro’s Restaurant and Cantina – 3935 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054
How: Comment on this blog post to add your name to the list of probable attendees

Pedro’s can handle large groups of people, but we would like to have an idea of

I am very excited and thrilled to use the latest release of MySQL 5.6 in production.

This is probably the most notable and innovative release in many years, if not ever.

During the last year, we had the chance to work with many new features and to test if the fixes to old issues were working fine.

To be honest, I was expecting to have MySQL 5.6 GA before now, and I even wagered with my colleague Francisco that it would be out before the end of 2012.

Nothing special just a beer in the Santa Clara Hyatt lounge.

Unfortunately for me, MySQL 5.6 is now in GA and given that it happen in 2013, I lost the bet and now have to pay for that beer.

But I have also lost the full list of things that we saw as relevant, interesting, or really innovative for MySQL.

So I took a step back, took my time, and reviewed what Oracle delivered in this new MySQL release.

Another interesting day today, I was attending the keynotes and I have found them quite interesting.

Specially the way Tweeter use MySQL to build-up a nosql solution, jokes a side I take few notes on things I must analyze and dig in.

Interesting one was also the introduction of the Paypal models, which brings me to attend the presentation later on. Presentation was well constructed and with some good theoretical work, but I was quite disappointed, I found the presentation incomplete, and missing real numbers for the MySQL Cluster NDB setup.

I attend the presentation done by Ronald B. it was good, nothing really advance, but on purpose. Very informative and explanatory for junior MySQL DBA, I enjoy it for the logic approach and the construction.

Ronald also highlight that it was the content of less then a chapter of one of his book, and done on purpose to give initial understanding of

Quite intense couple of weeks, with a lot of news.

What I am really noticing is the escalation in the race to be better, between MySQL/Oracle and MariaDB.

I have to say that all of us are taking the benefit out of that, and that I am not fully sure that Oracle would have put the same effort, if Monty and his team was not pushing so hard.

For sure Thomas Ulin has is agenda, but still Monty is doing a great job, for his product and in pushing the competitor to do his best.

As said the results is that MySQL is becoming day after day a better product.

Thanks guys!

MySQL Internals

It is a crazy idea to use MySQL for Json and HTTP embedded?

I love crazy things and this seems crazy, but it is less far from the future then we can imagine:

“PoC: HTTP, JSON, JavaScript, Map&Reduce built-in to MySQL

What if MySQL had an HTTP interface