WizzyWeb 5 by Sullivan Software Systems (inventors of Open Platform as a ServiceTM) enables you to create professional PHP Reports, Data Entry Form Apps & Email Apps for MySQL with no programming in 1/10th the time it usually takes - an order of magnitude. If you are not using WizzyWeb you are working too hard.

WizzyWeb Features:

• Generates standard PHP source code, HTML & CSS
• Apps run on your website or in our cloud
• Connects live over the web to your database in real-time to design, run & test
• NEW! Custom style sheet support
• NEW! Custom PHP PDO database connection code
• NEW! Built-in light weight database administration with standard SQL
• NEW! Email Apps
• Complete control over every HTML property (full fidelity)
• Custom user-definable form field validation …

Joomla! and MySQL — Slightly Different Paths to the Same Target will be the subject of my presentation at Joomla! World and it will be the Sunday morning keynote. Then I fly to Washington, D.C. for the first ever PHP[World] where I hold a SQL for PHP Developers workshop and have a session on MySQL 5.7! And then I am off to Oralndo for Live 360 megaconference to show off MySQL to a very large gathering of Windows developers.

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.6 on November 3, 2014. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories. We’re also happy to announce that Ubuntu 14.10 and CentOS 7 users can download, install, and upgrade Percona XtraBackup 2.2.6 from Percona’s 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 …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.6.21-70.0 on October 30, 2014. Download the latest version from the Percona web site or from the Percona Software Repositories. We’re also happy to announce that Ubuntu 14.10 and CentOS 7 users can download, install, and upgrade Percona Server 5.6 from Percona’s software repositories.

Based on MySQL 5.6.21, including all the bug fixes in …

Take the MySQL for Beginners training course to learn about the world's most popular open source database. In this first step on the MySQL curriculum you learn how to use the MySQL Server and tools, while developing a deeper knowledge of using relational databases.

You can take this course through three delivery formats

Training-on-Demand

Start training within 24 hours of registration through Training-on-Demand. Train at your own pace following lecture material through streaming video and booking time on a lab environment to suit your own …

With 1.28 billion active users, Facebook MySQL database engineers are active and extremely valuable contributors to the global MySQL community. So naturally they are also active participants of Percona Live MySQL conferences! And next week’s Percona Live London 2014 (Nov. 3-4) is no exception. (Register now and use the promotional code “Facebook” to save £30!)

I spoke with Facebook database engineers Yoshinori “Yoshi” Matsunobu and Shlomo Priymak about their upcoming sessions along with what’s new at Facebook since our last conversation back in April.

Tom: Yoshi, last year Facebook …

Percona Live London 2014 is starting next week and I'm happy to speak there about MySQL 5.7 Performance, Scalability & Benchmarks latest news. Indeed, MySQL 5.7 has a lot of positive changes and impressive improvements. And, looking on MySQL 5.7 Performance, there are many cases where the gap comparing to MySQL 5.6 today is simply amazing! ;-) -- but, of course, there are still some pending issues which are requiring yet more work to reach the expected speed-up.. So, I'll tell you all about the most hot stories around, while I'm also always curious about your issues you're hitting on your production systems. Please, don't hesitate to share them - this is helping us to make MySQL yet more better! ;-)

UPDATE - my slides are here : …

Congratulations to the SUSE team, for the release of SUSE Linux Enterprise 12. It comes by default with MariaDB 10.0.11, and you can find out more information in the release notes (in particular MariaDB replaces MySQL). Let us know if you’re using this, even on systems like POWER – we love to hear from our users!

In November 2014 you could be able to find us at following events. We are looking forward to talking to you!

APAC

• Highload ++ Conference, October 31-November 1, 2014, Moscow, Russia
  
  • The Highload Conference is one of the largest Professional conference for Web Developers and more. This time with MySQL booth &  our MySQL engineers and professionals.
• OpenSource India, November 7-8, 2014, Bengaluru, India
  • MySQL is part of the main OpenSource Conference in India. Following talks are scheduled: 
    • State of The Penguin & The Dolphin by Sanjay Manwani, the MySQL Director at Oracle India with Ramesh Srinivasan, the Linux & Virtualization Senior Director
    …

I will present a benchmarking talk next week (Nov. 4) at the OpenStack Paris Summit with Jay Pipes from Mirantis. In order to be able to talk about benchmarking, we had to be able to set up and tear down OpenStack environments really quickly. For the benchmarks, we are using a deployment on AWS (ironically) where the instances aren’t actually started and the tenant network is not reachable but all the backend operations still happen.

The first performance bottleneck we hit wasn’t at the MySQL level. We used Rally to benchmark the environment. We started 1,000 fake instances with it at the first glance.

The first …