Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.41-37.0 on January 9, 2015. Based on MySQL 5.5.41, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.5.41-37.0 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 5.5.41-37.0 milestone on Launchpad. Downloads are available …

Mon, 2015-01-12 11:25maria-luisaraviol

My relationship with Colt Engine, the Italian Joomla! Provider started in March 2011, when SkySQL was still a very “young” company and they got in touch with me to have more details on our new company. Since then many things happened on both the SkySQL (and then MariaDB) and the Colt Engine side. During the last two years they become a strong contributor to the MaxScale project (this will be better explained in a blog post later).

They recently also afforded the great step to move most of the existing Joomla! infrastructure from MySQL to MariaDB.

As part of the organising committee of the Italian Joomla! day that this year took place in Milan in November, Colt Engine invited me to present MariaDB to the Joomla! users attending the conference (all the information can be found here together with a lot of nice pictures …

TL;DR: it’s all the same to us and MariaDB, Percona Server, and WebScaleSQL all work beautifully, just like Kung Fu Fighting.

I couldn’t decide whether to parody the Kung Fu Fighting lyrics or include a parody image, so I’ll just start with parody lyrics:

Everybody was Metrics Fighting
Those graphs were fast as lightning
In fact, it was a little bit frightening
But they fought with expert timing
(with apologies to Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting)

Sometimes customers or interested community members ask us whether we support MariaDB too, or do we support Percona Server too, and so on. Just for the record, we do. We built VividCortex to monitor all types of MySQL servers.

But what about specific features and enhancements exposed by the branches of MySQL?

As longtime MySQL experts, we are very familiar with these, and in some cases even helped create them. These …

The next meetup of the MySQL User Group NL is in Amsterdam in one of the offices of Booking.com.

Schedule:
• 18:30 - 19:00: Welcome
• 19:00 - 19:30: Easy Replication Hierarchy Management with Pseudo-GTID
 (by Shlomi Noach)
• 19:30 - 20:00: Food & Discussion

• 20:00 - 20:30: Entry level Sphinx Search
 (by Art van Scheppingen)
 • 20:30 - 22:00: Discussion & Drinks

For more information and to RSVP you can visit the event page of MySQL User Group NL website

This week Amazon Web Services added transparent data at rest encryption capabilities to their Relation Database Service (RDS) MySQL and PostgreSQL offerings. No code changes required!  Customer managed keys are used through the AWS Key Management Service, which provides for key creation and rotation, usage policies, and key auditing.

You can learn more about this fantastic new feature for both RDS MySQL and RDS PostgreSQL here:  bit.ly/rdsencryption

and more about MySQL and PostgreSQL on RDS here:  http://bit.ly/rdsoverview

Whether you’re looking at the overall MySQL ecosystem or the all-data management landscape, the choice of technologies has never been larger than it is in 2015.

Having so many options is great but it also can be very hard to make a selection. I’m going to help narrow the list next week during a Webinar titled, “Open Source Technologies you should evaluate in 2015,” January 14 at 10 a.m. PST.

During the hour I’ll share which technologies I think worthy of consideration in 2015 – open source and proprietary technologies that allow you to manage your data easier, increase development pace, scale better and improve availability and security. I’ll also discuss recent developments in MySQL, NoSQL and NewSQL, Cloud and general advances in hardware.

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I will be presenting ‘SQL for PHP Programmers’ on Tuesday January 13th (please RSVP) at the Dallas PHP meeting.

After attending many PHP Conferences and user groups, I was shocked to fins so few developers had had any training in SQL. They were great with PHP obviously, Javascript, various frame works, and parts of modern programming but only 2 percent that I survived had any SQL training. Heck you could empty a room and have them leave skid marks by saying ‘relational calculus’. So I developed a workshop for last years PHPWorld to begin to rectify the dearth of SQL knowledge problem.

Oh, and I can answer questions about MySQL for attendees also.

Tuesday, January 13, 2015
7:00 PM

SoftLayer Offices
4849 Alpha Rd, Dallas, TX …

Hot off the press - the popular MySQL Performance Tuning training course has just got even better thanks to Oracle's MySQL support and engineering experts sharing their years of experience. This much improved course is currently being released, bringing you more real-life hands-on experience as well as hints and tips from the people with the most knowledge on tuning MySQL performance.

The MySQL Performance Tuning course teaches you how to tune MySQL for optimal performance. You will learn best practices for configuring, monitoring and troubleshooting your server, databases and queries using a range of tools.

As users continue to demand better performance and more functionality from web applications, you need to make sure that your database can keep up. The MySQL Performance Tuning …

Download MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.41

Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB Galera Cluster?

MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator

The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB Galera Cluster 5.5.41. This is a Stable (GA) release.

See the …

January 6, 2015 By Severalnines

We're looking for an enthusiastic International Inside Sales Representative (preferably in North American / European timezones) to join our small and driven sales team. This position is full-time and pay is negotiable. The hours are flexible and work can be done remotely; in fact, it will need to be done remotely, we all work from home ;-)

Severalnines is a self-funded startup with a dozen employees; headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden and with a globally distributed, home-office based team. We provide automation and management software for database clusters. Our ClusterControl product is the leading database automation platform for database clusters and is used by thousands of …