Monday next week, on November 3rd, I will be delivering a tutorial on the greatest MySQL European Conference, the Percona Live London 2014. The topic is a natural continuation of the one I delivered last year on the same venue, “Query Optimization with MySQL 5.6: Old and New Tricks“. This year I will be focusing on the newest optimizer changes that we can find not only in the already published 5.6 and MariaDB 10, but also some of the latest features in the still in development MySQL 5.7 and MariaDB 10.1. Topics on this workshop, which I have titled “Query Optimization with MySQL 5.7 and MariaDB 10: Even Newer …

Google’s Go language is increasingly popular for systems programming. We use Go extensively at VidivCortex and have come to appreciate its simplicity. It’s efficient and fun to program in Go, and it produces high-performance programs. Go is well suited for working with SQL databases, and has excellent MySQL drivers. Join us on Tuesday, November 11 at 2 PM EST (6 PM GMT) as Baron Schwartz, our CEO and Founder, discusses the following:

• Using Go’s database/sql package with MySQL

• Idiomatic database/sql code and available drivers for MySQL

• Tips and tricks to save time and frustration

You will come away with a stronger grasp on the integration and flexibility between the two. Please register …

The MySQL Windows Experience Team is proud to announce the release of MySQL for Excel version 1.3.3. This is a maintenance release for 1.3.x. It can be used for production environments.

MySQL for Excel is installed using the MySQL Installer for Windows which comes in 2 versions:

• Full (150 MB) which includes a complete set of MySQL products with their binaries included in the download
• Web (1.5 MB - a network install) which will just pull MySQL for Excel over the web and install it when run.

You can download MySQL Installer from our official Downloads page at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/installer/. The MySQL for Excel product can also be downloaded by using the product standalone installer found at this link …

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Calpont, the company behind the InfiniDB Storage Engine closed down in September 2014. MariaDB Corporation will continue to offer support for the InfiniDB customer base together with talent newly recruited from InfiniDB.

Calpont closed down

We received with great sadness the news of impending closure of Calpont, the company behind the InfiniDB column store engine. InfiniDB has brought huge dataset analytics to MySQL and MariaDB with linearly scalable and massively parallel capabilities. We salute the great work in bringing this product to market, achieved by InfiniDB designers, managers, engineers and support.

Despite "numerous technology achievements and success stories with customers, business can be challenging [as a start up]" said CEO, Bob Wilkinson. "Especially as differentiation in the market is murkier and competition from bigger entities increases".

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Just a friendly reminder that you can pick up MySQL Marinate whenever you want! You can use the master list at http://www.meetup.com/Virtual-Tech-Self-Study/messages/boards/thread/38423162 for reference – just ignore the dates and work at your own pace!

We found that very few people were taking the dates to heart, so we stopped trying to organize around them. The message boards are still valid, so feel free to ask if you have any questions – we are here to help!

The above was a quick note from Sheeri Cabral about the wonderful MySQL Marinate program that arrived in my email. This is a great way for novices to learn MySQL and for old war horses to find some new insights.

You can already feel the cold of February coming slowly… you can also smell waffles, fries and see a large amount of beards walking around with laptops… you are right, FOSDEM is coming! And as every year, the MySQL Community will also be present! For the 4th year in a row, I’ll perpetuate the organization of the MySQL & Friends Devroom.

FOSDEM 2015 edition will be held January 31 and February 1 here in Brussels. The MySQL & Friends Devroom is back on Sunday from 9 a.m. What is FOSDEM? It stands for the “Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting.” It’s a free event that offers open-source communities a place to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

As every year, the “Call for Papers” has been announced on the MySQL mailing list, and you …

MySQL developers are sought after for their skills so why not improve your skills with the authentic MySQL for Developers training course and prove your skills to employers via the MySQL 5.6 Developer certification exam.

The MySQL for Developers course brings you 5 days of instructor-led training. This training is currently scheduled for delivery in six languages and is accessible whereever you are through …

October 23, 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 Technical Webinar

If you are in DevOps, you will know that deploying and managing databases has its challenges! Monitoring, managing schema changes and pushing them in production, performance optimizations, configurations, version upgrades, backups; these are all aspects to consider – preferably before going live!

In this new webinar, we will walk you through 9 key tips to consider before specifically taking Galera Cluster into production. So if you are in devops, then this webinar is for you ;-)

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The countdown is on for Europe’s largest annual MySQL event, Percona Live London 2014. The two days of technical tutorials and sessions, November 3-4, will focus on the latest MySQL industry trends, news, best practices – and a look at what’s on the near- and long-term horizon within the global MySQL ecosystem.

Percona Live London 2014 will bring attendees up to date on key areas including MySQL 5.7, database security, database as a service (DBaaS), Hadoop and high availability (HA), disaster recovery, replication and backup, performance and scalability, WebScaleSQL and much, much more.

Team Oracle will be in London, led by Tomas Ulin, vice president of Oracle’s MySQL engineering team, who will explain why MySQL just keeps getting better with …

The MariaDB Team will have the following presentations at Percona Live London:

• Engine Independent Table Statistics in MariaDB: Let the optimizer know your data by Sergei Golubchik
• MySQL in the Hosted Cloud by Colin Charles

We’ll also be at the community meetups and all around the conference during those couple of days. Don’t forget that if you haven’t already registered, you can use discount code ‘PLUK14CC’ for a £20 discount.