I’ll be presenting a webinar tomorrow (Thursday 19th February) on MySQL High Availability options for MySQL – what they are and how to choose the most appropriate one for your application.

As always, the webinar is free but you should register here. Even if you can’t attend, it’s worth registering as you’ll be sent a link to the replay as soon as it’s available.

How important is your data? Can you afford to lose it? What about just some of it? What would be the impact if you couldn’t access it for a minute, an hour, a day or a week?

Different applications can have very different requirements for High Availability. Some need 100% data reliability with 24x7x365 read & write access …

Denver and Los Angeles this week for RMOUG Training Days and SCaLE13x!

The Rocky Mountain User Group’s annual Training Days takes over the Colorado Convention Center this week. Over 130 sessions including my MySQL for Oracle DBAs and MySQL Workbench and Visual Explain. Plush Sakila MySQL mascot toy
Then a quick dash to LAX for the Friday MySQL Track at SCaLE 13x. That is right, a full day of MySQL topics. I will be speaking on MySQL’s NoSQL and The Proper Care and Feeding of a MySQL Server for Busy Linux Admins. Be sure to drop by our booth at SCaLE for swag, see MySQL 5.7, and MySQL Workbench.

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Percona has submitted seven talks for the next OpenStack Summit in Vancouver this May. And as with all OpenStack Summit events, the community decides the content. Voting ends February 23, and if you aren’t already an OpenStack Foundation member (required to vote), you can join now for free here.

Percona’s Vancouver OpenStack Summit proposals

Percona’s proposals include collaborations with top contributors across a variety of OpenStack services including Trove and Swift. You can vote for our talks by clicking the titles below that interest you.

MySQL and OpenStack Deep Dive
Speakers: Peter Boros, …

MySQL Central @ OpenWorld 2015 will take place October 25-29 in San Francisco. It will, as last year, be an integral part of Oracle OpenWorld.

While dates are still subject to change, the Call for Papers (CFP) will likely open around March 25 and close around April 29, remaining open during 5 weeks. You can however already prepare your submission(s) now in order to avoid any rush and be ready to submit once the CFP opens. Here is the information you will need to provide to submit a session:

• Title
• Conference session type: This can either be a conference session (45 min), a Birds-of-a-Feather session (45 min), or a tutorial (2 hours). You are obviously welcome to submit several sessions.
• Abstract: 750 characters maximum including spaces
• Speaker’s name(s), e-mail(s), …

Wed, 2015-02-18 06:13Marc Sherwood

The conference season has begun for us here at MariaDB. It seems like the almost all linux and MySQL shows are in the next four months. This is the time of year that we get to collect those airline points, have our beds made for us, eat out a few times a day and put on a few pounds! I have been practicing for this all year. Check out our Events Section to see all of our upcoming events.

We love going to these shows and events as it gives us an opportunity to meet with new MySQL and MariaDB users, as well as to reconnect with those that we see only a few times per year. Our team has some exceptional knowledge when it comes to MySQL/MariaDB and all the bits around it (best practices around high availability, making big data work, scaling made easy/easier and performance tuning...) and we have talks/sessions at most of the …

Come see us at SCALE13x in Los Angeles, February 19-22 2015, at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport. The schedule has Max Mether speaking on Friday and Colin Charles speaking on Saturday. MariaDB Corporation will also have a booth at the expo hall with giveaways, so come say hi to Marc Sherwood and Rod Allen. If you need a discount code, remember to use SPEAK and save some money!

MySQL Enterprise Monitor 2.3.20 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. This is a maintenance release that updates various third party components and fixes some 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.

Important: MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM) 3.0 offers many significant improvements over MEM 2.3. If you have not already analyzed upgrading any remaining 2.3 installations to MEM 3.0, we highly recommend you do so. More information on MEM 3.0 is available here:

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Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.9 on February 17, 2015. Downloads are available from our download site or Percona Software Repositories.

Percona XtraBackup enables MySQL backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution, Percona XtraBackup drives down backup costs while providing unique features for MySQL backups.

Bugs …

Oracle's MySQL training is created by the MySQL experts. You can benefit from this training across the globe.

For example, the MySQL for Database Administrators course is currently scheduled to run in 13 languages and 26 countries and is available 'virtually' and online from anywhere. You can take this class through the following formats:

• Training-on-Demand:Start training within 24 hours of registration. Follow lecture material at your own pace via streaming video and perform hands-on exercises on a remote lab environment suiting your schedule.
• Live Virtual Event: Attend a live event from your own desk, no travel required. There are events on the schedule to suit different timezones. Events on the schedule include delivery in …

On February 26th 2015 the first meeting of Germany’s Rhein/Neckar User group will take place in Heidelberg.

Georg Richter, lead of MariaDB’s connectors team will give a talk “Don’t! No! Never!- common mistakes in relational database systems”.

Two special guests (Sanja Byelin, MariaDB Server Core Developer and Lawrin Novitsky, lead developer of MariaDB’s Connector/ODBC) will be available too for answering your questions and discussing/collecting your ideas around MariaDB, Percona, MySQL related and other database management systems.

Celebrate free speech, but also free beer (sponsored by MariaDB Corporation) and join on us on Feb. 26th in Heidelberg!

Location:
Pub “Gunnars”
Kettengasse 9
69117 Heidelberg Altstadt

Link: …