Apple’s Steve “Woz” Wozniak will talk at Percona Live 2015

I am thrilled to announce that Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley icon and philanthropist Steve Wozniak will participate in a moderated Q&A on creativity and innovation April 14 during this year’s Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, California.

In addition to “The Woz,” as Steve is nicknamed, we have a great lineup of esteemed industry luminaries, with a broad range of talks and tutorials along with fun and informative networking events during the four-day conference (April 13-16).

Harrison Fisk of Facebook’s Database Performance Team will deliver a keynote titled “Polyglot Persistence @Facebook” exploring why Facebook has so many different data solutions deployed at scale and how the company decides to …

The MySQL developer tools team is pleased to announce 6.3 Beta - the start of the public beta testing phase of MySQL Workbench 6.3

This release contains a number of new and enhanced features which are feature complete but might still contain
bugs. So use them with care.

For the full list of changes in this revision, visit
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-3.html

For detailed information about the new features, see What’s
New in MySQL Workbench 6.3
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-what-is-new-63.html

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
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Dear MySQL users,

The MySQL developer tools team announces the 6.3.1 beta as our first
release for MySQL Workbench 6.3. This release contains a number of new
and enhanced features which are feature complete but might still contain
bugs. So use them with care.

For the full list of changes in this revision, visit
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-3.html

For detailed information about the new features, see What’s
New in MySQL Workbench 6.3
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/wb-what-is-new-63.html

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?151

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.23-72.1 on March 4, 2015. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.23, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.6.23-72.1 is the current GA release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. Percona Server is open-source and free – and this …

The MySQL developer tools team announces 6.2.5 as our maintenance release for MySQL Workbench 6.2.

For the full list of bugs fixed in this revision, visit
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-2.html

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?151

Download MySQL Workbench 6.2.5 now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.7+,
Oracle Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 20, Fedora 21, and Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu
14.10 or sources, from:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/

Enjoy!

Changes in MySQL Workbench 6.2

   For detailed …

Dear MySQL users,

The MySQL developer tools team announces 6.2.5 as our maintenance release for
MySQL Workbench 6.2.

For the full list of bugs fixed in this revision, visit
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/workbench/en/changes-6-2.html

For discussion, join the MySQL Workbench Forums:
http://forums.mysql.com/index.php?151

Download MySQL Workbench 6.2.5 now, for Windows, Mac OS X 10.7+,
Oracle Linux 6 and 7, Fedora 20, Fedora 21, and Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu
14.10 or sources, from:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/workbench/

Enjoy!

Changes in MySQL Workbench 6.2

For detailed information about the new …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.42-37.1 on March 4, 2015. Based on MySQL 5.5.42, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.42-37.1 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series.

Percona Server is open-source and free. Details of the release can be found in the 5.5.42-37.1 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available …

Helsinki, FINLAND -  04 MARCH 2015 – Codership, creator of database clustering technology Galera, today announced its admission to Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack Interoperability Lab (OIL).  Galera, which is rapidly becoming the default solution for OpenStack high availability, provides the high system uptime and scalability without data loss. These benefits are necessary for OpenStack components such as Keystone, Nova and Neutron as well as Trove, the database as service for OpenStack.

As OpenStack public and private clouds gain adoption within enterprises, the need for compatibility and interoperability between different cloud technologies is essential. Currently working on more than 3,000 Ubuntu OpenStack combinations per month, OIL tests and validates the interoperability of hardware and software in a …

Taxonomy upgrade extras:  nagios icinga plug-in mysql mariadb percona server Galera Cluster release

FromDual is pleased to announce the release of a new version 1.0.0 of the Nagios and Icinga plug-ins for MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server and Galera Cluster.

Any information about the changes and the new functions of the Nagios and Icinga plug-ins you can find …

Tue, 2015-03-03 23:17Marc Sherwood

 The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo is coming up quickly and Team MariaDB is ready for another great event. This year our team has eight talks and tutorials and one Keynote:

• 1+1>2 - Patrik Sallner - Keynote - Application developers and IT managers face an ever richer choice of databases in the market, so deciding the right combination for any given use case is essential. MariaDB is designed to work flexibly in combination with most other databases, both SQL and NoSQL. A new proxy gateway, MaxScale, allows MariaDB to address a further range of exciting new scenarios.
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