The conference and tutorial schedule for Percona Live Europe 2015, September 21-23 in Amsterdam, was published this morning and this year’s event will focus on MySQL, NoSQL and Data in the Cloud.

Conference sessions, which will follow each morning’s keynote addresses, feature a variety of formal tracks and sessions. Topic areas include: high availability (HA), DevOps, programming, performance optimization, replication and backup, MySQL in the cloud, MySQL and NoSQL. There will also be MySQL case studies, session on security and talks about “What’s new in MySQL.”

Technology experts from the world’s leading MySQL and NoSQL vendors and users – including Oracle, MariaDB, Percona, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Yelp – will deliver the sessions. Sessions will include:

• “InnoDB: A Journey to the Core,” Jeremy Cole, …

Taking place in San Francisco October 25-29, MySQL Central @ OpenWorld offers you the chance to attend MySQL keynotes, conference sessions, tutorials, Hands-On Labs and Birds-of-a-Feather sessions. In addition, you get access to all the Oracle OpenWorld content, receptions and Appreciation Event!

The content catalog listing MySQL sessions is available here.

We’d very much like to thank the MySQL Central @ OpenWorld content committee for putting together such a great program, and especially members from the MySQL community including Sheeri Cabral, Aleksandr Kuzminsky, Daniel van Eeden, …

MySQL will be at the United Nations for NYC Camp! I will be speaking on Scaling MySQL and NoSQL, HTTP, and JSON with MySQL July 16th to 19th. The goal of the camp is to provide free training and is 100% free.

Did you know that you can take the very popular MySQL for Database Administrators course where ever you are? Our training formats are adapted to help you get the same high-quality training in an education center or from your own desk. So you can learn to configure the MySQL Server, set up replication and security and perform backups and performance tuning and protect MySQL databases at your chosen location.

The available training formats are:

ONLINE TRAINING

You can take this online course at your own pace as a Training-on-Demand offering, starting training within 24 …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.0.22 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few weeks. This is a maintenance release that includes a few new features and fixes a number of bugs. You can find more information on the contents of this release in the change log.

You will find binaries for the new release on My Oracle Support. Choose the "Patches & Updates" tab, and then choose the "Product or Family (Advanced Search)" side tab in the "Patch Search" portlet.

You will also find the binaries on the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few weeks. Choose "MySQL Database" as the Product Pack and you …

If you are starting out with MySQL Cluster, the MySQL Cluster training course could help you get up and running faster. In this 4-day course, you learn to:

• Install and configure MySQL Cluster nodes
• Design simple and advanced cluster topologies
• Secure cluster nodes and data
• Back up and restore cluster data
• Troubleshoot common cluster problems
• Monitor and optimize cluster performance
• Use enterprise tools to manage large cluster deployments

You can take this course as a:

• Live-Virtual Event: Attend a live event from your own desk, no travel required. Choose from a selection of events on the schedule to suit different timezones. Events on the schedule include 5 October …

Oracle was in the news recently with the story of its license revenue declining as much as 17% in the recent quarter. This is blamed on transitioning to the cloud in some publications, but others, such as Bloomberg and TechRepublic, look deeper, seeing open source software responsible for the bulk of it.

Things are especially interesting in the MySQL ecosystem, as Oracle both owns its traditional “Enterprise” Oracle …

The following new license is now in effect:
SWANHART OPEN LICENSE
Clause #1:
The following companies:
Percona staffing llc, and any associated parent, child or ancillary entities

May not download, retain, install, operate, or in any way associate themselves with this software. This is without exception. Any use must immediately and permanently cease. Violation of this license will be pursued in a court of law.

The remainder of the license is normal 3 clause BSD. The above preamble overrides any relevant clauses in that license with respect to rights to use the software.

Long live MariaDB!

You can now create MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle Relational Database Service (RDS) database instances with up to 6TB of storage and SQL Server RDS database instances with up to 4TB of storage when using the Provisioned IOPS and General Purpose (SSD) storage types.

Existing MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle RDS database instances can be scaled to these new database storage limits without any downtime.

Read more about this at http://bit.ly/awsrdsstorage

mysql> DELETE FROM MySQL.employees WHERE name="Andrew";
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.06 sec)

> db.employees.insert({
  name: {first: "Andrew", 
         last: "Morgan"}, 
  startDate: new Date('June 25 2015'), 
  role: "Product Marketing"});

WriteResult({ "nInserted" : 1 })

Today was my last day working for MySQL/Oracle. I’ve really enjoyed my time here and it’s difficult to leave behind such great people and technology. Having said that, after 6.5 years it feels like the right time to move onto new challenges.

Tomorrow I start working for MongoDB in their product marketing team.

In terms of this blog, I plan to keep all of the existing content live but if you’ve questions on MySQL then you’ll likely get a faster/better response if you do directly to the MySQL forums. It’s unlikely that I’ll be posting new MySQL articles here but if you’re curious about …