• Getting Started with MySQL: Learn the Essentials
• Enhancing Productivity with MySQL 5.6 New Features
• How to Analyze and Tune SQL Queries for Better Performance
• MySQL 5.6 Replication Tips and Tricks
• MySQL 5.6 Performance Tuning and Best Practices
• Getting Started with MySQL Cluster

Following the success of its first MySQL Connect edition, Oracle will hold MySQL Connect 2013 on September 21-23 in San Francisco.

The Call for Papers is now open, and will be running until April 12. We highly encourage MySQL users, customers, partners and community members to submit session proposals now.

Following the tremendous success of MySQL Connect, you can now watch some of the keynotes online:

The State of the Dolphin – by Oracle Chief

Take the MySQL Connect 2012 Survey

Thanks to everyone who is at the first ever MySQL Connect Conference in San Francisco this weekend! Don't forget to take your Conference and Session Surveys. Your opinions help shape next year's conference.

• Take a survey for each of the sessions you attend and be entered into a drawing for one prize for $200 American Express Gift Certificate.
• Fill in the daily conference survey and be entered into a drawing for one prize for a $500 American Express Gift Card
• Surveys are located here.

Make your opinion count! Take the survey now.

Congratulations to Robin Schumacher from DataStax as he is the winner of the Saturday survey!

In the latest episode of our "Meet The MySQL Experts" podcast, I had the pleasure of being able to interview the hosts of the OurSQL podcast, Sheeri Cabral of Mozilla and Gerry Narvaja of Tokutek, about the upcoming MySQL Connect Conference.  Enjoy the podcast !

MySQL Connect Blog posts:

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We're very pleased to announce a new keynote that will take place on Saturday morning at 10.00 am:

"Community Perspective - Why Upgrade to MySQL 5.6"

Sarah Novotny will lead a lively panel discussion with several MySQL Community members. They will share their opinions and debate about the new MySQL Database features they’re excited about.

Moderator: Sarah Novotny, CIO, Meteor Entertainment

Panelists:

Sheeri Cabral, Database Admin/Architect, Mozilla

Giuseppe Maxia, QA Director, Continuent

Let’s review today the conference sessions where users and customers will describe their use of MySQL as well as best practices.

Remember you can plan your schedule with Schedule

We’ve recently blogged about the various MySQL Connect sessions focused on MySQL Cluster, InnoDB,

Following my previous blog post focusing on InnoDB talks at MySQL Connect, let us review today the sessions focusing on the MySQL Optimizer:

• Saturday, 11.30

Time flies and MySQL Connect is only 10 days away!

You can check out the full program here as well as in the September edition of the MySQL newsletter.

Mat recently blogged about the MySQL Cluster sessions you’ll have the opportunity to attend, and below are those focused on InnoDB. Remember you can plan your

When I sent a proposal for session "Managing and Troubleshooting MySQL for Oracle DBAs" to MySQL Connect conference org committee it had not any mention of Oracle in its name, but later I was asked to provide more details for former Oracle DBAs who want to use MySQL. I was fast and I said "yes".

So my original aim to teach people to troubleshoot MySQL changed to teaching of how different is MySQL from Oracle in troubleshooting aspects. Although both RDBMs have very much in common they are definitely very different. So what I am going to speak about this time is nuances of how MySQL stores data, how it manages locks, why its high availability solutions: MySQL Cluster and

The MySQL Connect conference is only a couple of weeks away, with MySQL engineers, support teams, consultants and community aces busy putting the final touches to their talks.

There will be many exciting new announcements and sharing of best practices at the conference, covering the range of MySQL technologies.

MySQL Cluster (http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/) will a big part of this, so I wanted to share some key sessions for those of you who plan on attending, as well as some resources for those who are not lucky enough to be able to make the trip, but who can't afford to miss the key news. Of course, this is no substitute to actually being there….and the good news is that

Keith Larson: Thank you for allowing me to do this interview with you.  I have been talking with a few different Oracle ACEs   about the MySQL Connect Conference. I figured the MySQL community might be missing you as well. You have been very busy with Oracle Linux but I know you still have an eye on the MySQL Community. How have things been?

Lenz Grimmer: Thanks for including me in this series of interviews, I feel honored! I've read the other interviews, and really liked them. I still try to follow what's going on over in the MySQL community and it's good to see that many of the familiar faces are still around. Over the course of the 9 years that I was involved with MySQL, many colleagues and contacts turned into good friends and we still

Schedule Builder allows you to effectively plan your conference and pre-enroll in MySQL Connect sessions. For instance, don’t miss the keynotes including:

The State of The Dolphin

Join Oracle Executive Vice President Edward Screven and MySQL Vice President of Engineering Tomas Ulin to hear about Oracle’s MySQL strategy, and the key latest developments including product releases, roadmap and community.

MySQL Perspectives

Keith Larson: Thank you for allowing me to do this interview with you. What have you and Continuent been up to lately?

Giuseppe Maxia:  Hi Keith. It's my pleasure.  I (and the whole team at Continuent) have been quite busy releasing version 1.5.1 of our flagship clustering and HA product, Tungsten Enterprise. Apart from the pleasure of the growing business that makes us all very happy, we enjoy the rare geeky joy of working at a product at the highest levels of innovation and technical effectiveness.

 I am also happy, at a personal level, because my current job keeps me in touch with the MySQL community. The products that we develop, both the open source and the commercial solutions, depend heavily on

Dave Stokes and I tracked down Sarah Novotny Sunday night at the early bird registration for OSCON 2012. We had a few moments to interview her about MySQL Connect and her recent endeavors. I hope you enjoy:

Keith Larson: Thank you for joining us today.

Sarah Novotny: I am glad to be here.

Keith Larson: First just a general question, What were your thoughts when you heard that Oracle was going to do MySQL Connect ?

Sarah Novotny: I was very excited about it. I didn't expect Oracle to give us our own space. Even thought JavaOne had gotten that . JavaOne has existed as it's own

If you haven't already registered for MySQL Connect, now is the time to do it.

Looking for the right reason to attend? Here are the TOP THREE REASONS...

• You'll get the chance to hear directly from users including PayPal, Verizon, Twitter, Facebook, Ticketmaster, Ning, Mozilla, CERN, Yahoo! and more, about best practices for deploying MySQL based solutions.
• Don't miss this unique opportunity to meet the engineers developing and supporting the MySQL products, all in a single location. You'll be able to ask them all your questions and provide them feedback.

Are you speaking, attending or exhibiting at MySQL Connect? Banners, buttons and other resources are at your disposal in our attendee toolkit! Some examples below:

Would you like to help promote the event? Some

MySQL Connect is taking place on September 29 and 30 in San Francisco. The early bird discount enabling you to save US$ 500 is only running for a few more days, until July 13.

Are you still wondering if you should sign up? Here are 10 reasons why you definitely should:

• Learn from other companies how they tackled similar challenges to the ones you’re facing. Find out what they learned along the way, and how you can save time, money and a lot of troubles by avoiding repeating the same mistakes and applying the best practices they’ve developed. You’ll get the chance to hear from

Ronald Bradford,  an Oracle ACE Director has been busy working with  database consulting, book writing (EffectiveMySQL) while traveling and speaking around the world in support of MySQL. I was able to take some of his time to get an interview on this thoughts about theMySQL Connect conference.

Keith Larson: What where your thoughts when you heard that Oracle was going to provide the community the MySQL

The MySQL Connect Content Catalog is now live and you can check out the great program the content committee put together for you.

We received a lot of very good submissions during the call for papers and we’d like to thank you all again for those, it was a very difficult job to choose.

Overall MySQL Connect will in two days include:

• Keynotes, with speakers such as Oracle Chief Corporate Architect Edward

MySQL Innovation Day (http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/events/innovation-day/) held on June 5, 2012 was a great event for the MySQL engineers, users and customers to gather, share and network. I was able to get a few minutes with Tomas Ulin, Vice President of MySQL Engineering at Oracle, to ask him some questions. Here are the highlights of my interview with Tomas.

Monica: This was the first MySQL Innovation Day, correct?  Why now, what was the strategy behind hosting this kind of event?

Tomas: In the last year, we have rolled out an incredible number of MySQL events worldwide – some targeted at developers that are new to MySQL and others for the MySQL savvy. At the MySQL Innovation Day, our first event of this kind,, we had a number of

The MySQL Connect conference is taking place September 29-30 in San Francisco. We asked a few questions about the event to Oracle’s VP of MySQL Engineering Tomas Ulin.

Hi Tomas, to start with, what is MySQL Connect?

A: MySQL Connect is a conference delivered by Oracle, with and for the MySQL Community. We’ll have over 60 technical breakout sessions, Birds-of-a-feather sessions and Hands-On labs running throughout the two days, plus the keynotes. So it’s a fantastic opportunity to learn a huge amount in only two days, and to network with Oracle engineers, users, customers and partners.

When will the program be available online?

A: The call for papers ended May 6 and

A big thanks goes out to everyone involved with the MySQL Connect Content Committee. We had a great response to the call for papers and realize that it took a considerable amount of time and effort to review the submitted sessions and BOFs. While Oracle employees aided with this effort, the MySQL Community deserves to be acknowledged for the time they took out of their busy schedules to help with our conference. Their input was invaluable to the support of the MySQL Community. Continued support such as this from the community is another reason that MySQL continues to be #1 open source database. We'll keep you posted as we finalize and publish the sessions, BoFs and HOLs for MySQL Connect.

Thanks to the following committee members:

MySQL Community:

The MySQL Connect Call for Papers closes on May 6 so you only have a few days left to submit your session proposals! Thanks to all of you who already submitted conference sessions and BOFs.

MySQL Connect represents a tremendous opportunity for you to present your real-world experience and share your expertise and best practices with the MySQL community.

Interested in sponsorship and exhibit opportunities? You will find more information here.

We look forward to hearing from you!

The MySQL Connect Call for Papers opened last Monday. Thanks to all of you who already submitted conference sessions and BOFs.

The CFP is running until May 6; if you have not submitted session proposals yet, you have about 2 weeks left to do so.

Interested in sponsorship and exhibit opportunities? You will find more information here.

We look forward to hearing from you!

MySQL Connect will take place in San Francisco September 29 and 30; you can read the Press Release here.

The call for papers is open until May 6, submit your sessions now!

This is your chance to present your real-world experience and share your expertise and best practices with the MySQL community.

The conference includes six tracks: Performance and Scalability, High Availability, Cloud Computing, Architecture and Design, Database Administration, and Application Development.

You can