You know you’ll be there so why not save some $$ by registering now for the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2015 (April 13-16 in Santa Clara, Calif.). Super Saver registration discounts are available through Dec. 14 at 11:30 p.m. PST. (That’s just 10 days away!)

What to expect this year? The Percona Live 2015 conference committee is putting together another fantastic event for the global MySQL community’s next meeting in April. The full conference agenda will be announced in January, but the initial roster includes:

• Sunny Bains, Senior …

Wed, 2014-12-03 12:39massimiliano_pinto_g

Join us in Milan, Italy for a combined two days MariaDB 10 conference and training event on December 16-17th. Register now to learn the latest and greatest about MariaDB!

Get the chance to discover MariaDB 10, the newest version of the Open Source Community relational database. Are you currently a MySQL user? This is a good point to consider migrating from MySQL - MariaDB adds many new capabilities to address web and enterprise application challenges.

During the two days of the event, attendees will learn new MariaDB features and get to hands on try them out.

I am especially excited to attend the event myself as I will be presenting the latest on MaxScale - the intelligent proxy. This 30 minute presentation in Italian will be my first public MaxScale presentation in Italy, as well as in …

December 3, 2014 By Severalnines Check Out Our Latest Technical Resources for MySQL, MariaDB & MongoDB Clusters

Here is a summary of resources & tools that we’ve made available to you in the past weeks. If you have any questions on these, feel free to contact us!

New Live Technical Webinars

Galera Cluster for MySQL vs MySQL (NDB) Cluster - A High Level Comparison

MySQL Cluster is the official clustering solution from Oracle, while Galera Cluster for MySQL/MariaDB is slowly but surely establishing itself as the de-facto clustering …

MySQL DBAs and Developers are hard to shop for but here are some ideas that will appeal to them.

1. Hamster Wheel Standing Desk http://www.dudeiwantthat.com/gear/office/hamster-wheel-standing-desk.asp

Get your favorite MySQL-er a new desk, some exercise, and you will be giving a gift that provides more than just a place to stash stuff.

For the DBA/Dev on the go, there is also the Refold Portable Cardboard Desk http://www.dudeiwantthat.com/gear/office/refold-portable-cardboard-desk.asp that does not provide as much exercise but could be just the thing for the trip to that oh so crowded Starbucks.

2. “DB Evil Genius” Mug …

Luís Soares and I recently hosted a webinar which explained the latest developments in MySQL Replication.

The webinar replay is now available to download from here.

Details:

Continuing in the footsteps of its predecessor, MySQL 5.7 is set to be a groundbreaking release. In this webinar, the engineers behind the product provide insights into what’s new for MySQL replication in the latest 5.7 Development Milestone Release and review the early access features available via labs.mysql.com. The next generation of replication features cover several technical areas such as better semi-synchronous replication, an enhanced …

Backing up your MySQL databases is important for:

• Complete system recovery: If a system fails, you need a backup of the system so you can restore it. Your backup and recovery strategy depends on how current and how complete the recovered data needs to be.
• Auditing capabilities: For some systems and associated processes, you need to audit or analyze the data on a system other than your primary production environment.
• Typical DBA tasks: Use backups when you need to perform typical DBA tasks such as transferring data from one system to another, creating a development server based on a specific state of a production server or recovering certain portions of the system to state prior to a user error.

Take the MySQL for …

Please find below list of events where you can find MySQL at. We are looking forward to talking to you!

December 2014:

• PHP Brazil, Osasco, Sao Paulo, Brazil (December 4-7, 1014)
  • We are going to have a MySQL booth at this event as well as we run a MySQL lecture on "Oracle investments in MySQL" given by Airton Lastori, the MySQL Sales Consultant. Airton will be talking about main updates in MySQL 5.7, MySQL Cluster 7.4, MySQL Fabric and more. Check out the improvements in performance, robustness and new options for high-availability, scalability and sharding.
  • We are looking forward to meeting you at MySQL booth!
• UK OUG/Tech 14, Liverpool, UK (December 8-10, 2014)
  • MySQL is a part of the main …

Thu, 2014-11-27 15:09michael_carney_g

We’ve had a bunch of questions, and a ton of traffic and interest on the subject of InfiniDB since we blogged about our support plans in October. Thanks for all of that!

I wanted to send an update with the latest updates on what we’re doing with InfiniDB.

InfiniDB binaries and documentation available again

As part of step #2 below we’ve been making resources available again:

• Builds and documentation: https://mariadb.com/services/infinidb-services
• The public repository: https://github.com/infinidb/infinidb
• Issues (bugs or other) can be reported by customers via our support portal: https://support.mariadb.com
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November 27, 2014 By Severalnines

We're looking for a great and customer focused support engineer (preferably in North American/European timezones) to join our small and agile support 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 …

November 26, 2014 By Severalnines

Galera Cluster for MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster and MariaDB Cluster (the three “flavours†of Galera Cluster) make use of the Galera WSREP libraries to handle synchronous replication.MySQL Cluster is the official clustering solution from Oracle, while Galera Cluster for MySQL is slowly but surely establishing itself as the de-facto clustering solution in the wider MySQL eco-system.  

In this webinar, we will look at all these alternatives and present an unbiased view on their strengths/weaknesses and the use cases that fit each alternative.

This webinar will cover the following:

• MySQL Cluster architecture: strengths and limitations
• Galera Architecture: strengths and limitations
• Deployment scenarios
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