We are pleased to announce the next MySQL User Camp Bangalore scheduled for October 17th (3:00PM to 5:00 pm), at OC001 Oracle's Kalyani Magnum Office, Bangalore. 

As part of creating a strong MySQL community in India, the local MySQL Engineering team organizes quarterly Camps to share knowledge and also to get feedback from the MySQL users, DBA's, and community developers. 

In this MySQL User Camp, we invite your representation as speakers -> we will share the final agenda once ready.

Register yourself for the event by mailing to  mysql.bangalore@gmail.com.

And I'm not saying this because I'm MySQL/Oracle employee ;-)) - just expressing my personal feeling while flying back to Paris..



I really enjoyed this conference now much more than all previous years :

• first of all having 5 days instead of 2 allows to have much more networking than before (and usually it's the main goal for every conference to create a lot of informal discussions and exchange on opinions)..
  
  
• then, the content - all excellent, no words.. there was so much new stuff to discover and learn from other experiences, that I'm pretty sure that each person at one moment during the conference should feel a kind of "brain overflow" ;-) and what is good that there were talks for any levels of skills -- so, it was very easy to progress on understanding of each topic quickly and smoothly..
  
  
• organization was just perfect : all in one place, no …

As promised, here are my presentation slides from my talks on MySQL Central @OpenWord 2014 :

• MySQL 5.7 Benchmarks [PDF]
• MySQL Performance : Demystified Tuning & Best Practices [PDF]

Feel free to ping me if you have any questions, while I'll also try to cover some of explained topics within the next blog posts, so stay tuned ;-)

Rgds,
-Dimitri

Open Query Engineer Daniel Black and Engineer/Trainer Peter Lock will be presenting sessions at the upcoming Open Source Developers’ Conference which is hosted at Griffith University Gold Coast Campus, 4-7 November 2014.

• Coding for Scale – When One Database Doesn’t Cut it (Daniel)
• Bigger, Faster, Safer, Easier databases with MariaDB 10 (Peter)
• MySQL Scale Wars – A New Hope & Replication Strikes Back (Peter)

I also spotted

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Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.2.5 on October 2, 2014. Downloads are available from our download site here and 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.

When looking to improve the performance of a MySQL Database, remember that the database is not the only factor that affects performance. Applications or the infrastructure that support them can cause significant bottlenecks which are independent of the database. Therefore, start by taking a big picture view of performance and as well as tuning the MySQL server instance, consider application tuning or operating system tuning.

To learn more about this and other key performance tuning topics, take the MySQL Performance Tuning training course. You can take this 4-day course through the following formats:

• Training-on-Demand: Start training within 24 hours of registering, following lecture material at your own pace through streaming video and booking …

I want to emphasize this for those who have not spent time near trademarks: trademarks are trouble and another one of those things where no matter what, the lawyers always win. If you are starting a company or an open source project, you are going to have to spend a whole bunch of time with lawyers on trademarks or you are going to get properly, properly screwed.

MySQL AB always held the trademark for MySQL. There’s this strange thing with trademarks and free software, where while you can easily say “use and modify this code however you want” and retain copyright on it (for, say, selling your own version of it), this does not translate too well to trademarks as there’s a whole “if you don’t defend it, you lose it” thing.

The law, is, in effect, telling you that at some point you have to be an arsehole to not lose your trademark. (You can be various degrees of arsehole …

Back home after an excellent week at MySQL Central  in San Francisco. I want to thank the MySQL Community for all your questions, suggestions, and discussions. Your knowledge about – and passion for MySQL is stunning. Thank you!

It was also good fun, see pictures and comments #MySQLCentral. Presentations are available online, for example my own What’s New in MySQL 5.7? [CON2314] and Alexander Nozdrin’s  New Data Dictionary: An Internal Server API …

My 2 sessions from 2014’s MySQL Central at Oracle OpenWorld are now available:

NoSQL and SQL: The Best of Both Worlds [CON2853]

There’s a lot of excitement about NoSQL data stores, with the promise of simple access patterns, flexible schemas, scalability, and high availability. The downside comes in the form of losing ACID transactions, consistency, flexible queries, and data integrity checks. What if you could have the best of both worlds? This session shows how MySQL Cluster provides simultaneous SQL and native NoSQL access to your data—whether it’s in a simple key-value API (memcached) or REST, JavaScript, Java, or C++. You will hear how the MySQL Cluster architecture delivers in-memory real-time performance; 99.999 percent availability; online maintenance; and linear, horizontal scalability through …

We are pleased to announce that MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.0.15 is now available for download on the My Oracle Support (MOS) web site. It will also be available via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few weeks. This is a maintenance release that includes a few new features and fixes a number of 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.

You will also find the binaries on the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in a few weeks. Choose "MySQL Database" as the Product Pack and you will …