Please find a list of conferences & events where you can find MySQL Community team or our experts talking about MySQL. We are looking forward to meeting to you!

• May 2015:
  • OpenSUSE, Den Haag, Netherlands, (May 1-4, 2015)
    • Speaker: Georgi Kodinov on "Secure Deployment Changes Coming in MySQL 5.7”
    • Find us at our MySQL booth!
  • OpenWest Conference, Salt Lake City, US (May 7-9, 2015)
  • PHP Unconference, Island of Majorka (May 9-10, 2015)
    • as tradition we are part of this UnConference. 
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Peter Zaitsev kicks off Percona Live 2015

With highlights that included news of Percona’s acquisition of Tokutek, a lively keynote discussion with Apple legend Steve “Woz” Wozniak, scores of technical sessions, tutorials and a festive MySQL community dinner and game night, last week’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo had something for everyone.

More than 1,200 attendees from around the world converged upon Santa Clara, California for the event, which included for the first time a two-day OpenStack Live track alongside a two-day crash course for aspiring MySQL DBAs called “MySQL 101.”

With the Tokutek acquisition, announced last Tuesday by Peter Zaitsev, Percona becomes the first company to offer both MySQL and MongoDB software and solutions. Percona has also taken over development and support …

The MySQL April Newsletter is posted, again bringing the latest news and technical tips and tricks to the MySQL users. In this edition, you'll read what's new in the recently-announced MySQL 5.7 Release Candidate, as well as upcoming activities such as MySQL webinars and events. Below are the highlights:

• News: Announcing MySQL 5.7 Release Candidate
• MySQL Central @ OpenWorld 2015 Call for Papers Open Until April 29
  
• Webcast: What's New in MySQL Security on April 23
  
• Webcast: MySQL Performance Tuning 101 on May 27
• Blog: JSON Labs Release -- Effective Functional Indexes in InnoDB
  

You can read it …

The Call for papers for MySQL Central @ Oracle Open World closes in just over a week! Now is the time to put together those ideas for a presentation you have had into shape before the last minute rush. The conference starts October 25th but the CFP closes April 29th! But we want you at this conference to present your best material.

So what if you have never submitted a talk in the past to any conference OR have not manged to get accepted for MySQL Central before? Get your best technical material together and write down the topic, 3-5 bullet points, and a conclusion. Then put your title, bullet points, and conclusion into a paragraph. That paragraph needs to fit into one of the six MySQL Central @ OpenWorld tracks:

• Performance & Scalability
• High Availability
• NoSQL & Big Data
• Cloud and DevOps
• Database Administration
• Architecture and …

To perfect your skills as a MySQL developer, consider taking the MySQL for Developers training course. In this 5-day course, you learn to:

• Describe the MySQL client/server architecture
• Use MySQL client programs and common options
• Program MySQL applications with Java and PHP connectors
• Use a 'NoSQL' approach to store and retrieve data
• Design efficient tables
• Create and delete database objects
• Use expressions in SQL statements
• Examine database metadata
• Use SQL statements to modify table data
• Maintain database integrity with transactions
• Write multiple table queries
• Create 'virtual tables' containing specific data
• Create …

MySQL Cluster Manager 1.3.5 is now available to download from My Oracle Support.

Details are available in the the MCM 1.3.5 Release Notes. Note that this version of MCM now supports MySQL Cluster 7.4 (as well as earlier versions or MySQL Cluster).

Documentation is available here.

Two recent blogs from engineering managers at successful Web properties have highlighted the wisdom of selecting proven and mature technologies, whether for new startups or projects.

The first one is entitled "Learn to stop using shiny new things and love MySQL", by Marty Weiner, Engineering Manager at Pinterest. Marty starts off explaining "A good portion of the startups I meet and advise want to use the newest, hottest technology to build something that’s cool, but not technologically groundbreaking. I have yet to meet a startup building a time machine, teleporter or quantum social network that would actually require some amazing new tech. They have awesome new ideas with down-to-earth technical requirements, so I kept wondering why they choose this …

The binary and source versions of MySQL Cluster 7.4.6 have now been made available at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/.

MySQL Cluster NDB 7.4.6 is a new maintenance release of MySQL Cluster, based on MySQL Server 5.6 and including features from version 7.4 of the NDB storage engine, as well as fixing a number of recently discovered bugs in previous MySQL Cluster releases.

This release also incorporates all bugfixes and changes made in previous MySQL Cluster releases, as well as all bugfixes and feature changes which were added in mainline MySQL 5.6 through MySQL 5.6.24.

The …

We are pleased to announce and invite your to the next Korean MySQL User Group meeting on April 15, 2015. Please find more details below:

• Date: April 15, 2015
• Time: 7-9 pm
• Venue: Oracle Korea HQ, ASEM Tower, 159-1 Samsung-Dong, Kangnam-Gu Seoul, Korea
• Office phone: 82-2-2194-8000
• Proposed agenda:
  • MySQL 5.7 Updates include Enterprise Firewall, JSON  - Kajiyama Ryusuke , APAC MySQL SC Manager 
  • MySQL Cluster 7..4 Updates  -  Jongse Park, Rockplace Engineer Manager
  • MySQL with TokuDB engine Case Study - Soohyun Park, CDNetworks, DB Manager 
  • Recruiting MUG Staff for 2015 

More information and registration could be found …

How important is the performance of your MySQL database? If you want to learn more about tuning the performance of MySQL servers, consider taking the MySQL Performance Tuning training course. In this course you learn to:

• Understand performance tuning concepts
• Benchmark your MySQL server
• Tune MySQL server settings
• Investigate performance metrics with a range of system databases, command-line and graphic tools
• Design your database for optimal performance
• Optimize slow queries
• Troubleshoot common performance problems
• Scale your hardware and application environment as your database grows

You can take the …