MySQL Connect is rapidly approaching and one of the speakers is Peter Zaitsev, CEO of Percona. Peter volunteered to participate in our survey of MySQL Community Members.

What are your speaking about at your session?
I’m speaking about indexing best practices for MySQL, specifically focusing at a new ways MySQL 5.6 can use indexes and what opportunities does it bring.

Who would benefit most from attending your session?
This is a topic of broad interest. Developers and DBAs both need to be very familiar with a way MySQL can use sessions.

What other sessions would you recommend or are planning to attend?
There are a lot of wonderful sessions this year. Specifically I will look forward to the product information from Oracle team – MySQL 5.7 and direction of the MySQL group with State of the …

MySQL Connect is rapidly approaching but there is still time for you to register. Calvin Sun from Twitter is going to be speaking and is the second of prominent MySQL Community members in this blog series to show you why you should join us.

What are your speaking about at your session?
MySQL at Twitter.

Who would benefit most from attending your session?
Scaling MySQL.

What other sessions would you recommend or are planning to attend?
MySQL 5.6 at Facebook [CON7798]
MySQL Performance: Benchmarks, Tuning, and “Best” Practices [CON2971]
MySQL @ Facebook: Lots and Lots of Small Data [CON7446]
InnoDB: Table and Index Data Structures Architecture [CON6897]
The InnoDB Buffer Pool and I/O: How It All Works [CON3497]
Unlocking MySQL: Dealing with Locking in MySQL …

MySQL Connect is very quickly approaching and I will have some insights from prominent members of the MySQL Community about why you should join us September 21st-23rd in San Francisco. Mark Callaghan of Facebook is the first subject and his answers are short, sweet, and concise.

What are your speaking about at your session?
The reasons and process of upgrading to 5.6.

Who would benefit most from attending your session?
People considering 5.6

What other sessions would you recommend or are planning to attend?
All of the sessions on InnoDB internals

Why should ‘Joe Average’ DBA or Developer attend MySQL Connect?
Learn more, network with others in the community, let Oracle know what you need in MySQL 5.7

A big thanks to Mark for being the first …

It is hard to believe it is already closing in on a year since the last MySQL Connect, but it is true, it is time to start preparing again.

This year MySQL Connect will take place in the weekend of 21-23 September with the Monday being dedicated to tutorials. As last year MySQL Connect is part of Oracle OpenWorld and is hosted at Hilton, San Francisco Union Square.

I am fortunate enough this year to be taking part in three sessions:

• Meet the MySQL Community and Support Teams [BOF2480]
  Join MySQL community and support team members in this BOF to ask all your questions as well as provide feedback, …

I will be talking about Big Data with MySQL and Hadoop at MySQL Connect 2013 (Sept. 21-22) in San Francisco as well as at Percona University at Washington, DC (September 12, 2013). Apache Hadoop is a very popular Big Data solution and we can nowadays easily integrate it with MySQL. I will start with a brief introduction of Apache Hadoop and its components (HFDS, Map/Reduce, Hive, HBase/HCatalog, Flume, Scoop, etc). Next I will show 2 major Big Data scenarios:

• From file to Hadoop to MySQL. This is an example of “ELT” process: Extract data from external source; Load data into Hadoop; Transform data/Analyze data; Extract results to MySQL. It is similar to the original Data Warehouse ETL …

Do not forget the Call for Papers for MySQL Connect ends in less than two weeks!

The Call for Papers is now open, and will be running until April 12. We highly encourage MySQL users, customers, partners and community members to submit session proposals now.

MySQL Connect represents a unique opportunity to learn about the latest features of the best MySQL product releases ever, discuss product roadmaps, and connect directly with the engineers driving MySQL innovation.

The Conference is chock-full with technical sessions, hands-on labs, Birds of a Feather (BOF) sessions and tutorials delivered by MySQL community members, users, customers, partners and Oracle’s MySQL engineers.

The event will include five tracks: Performance and Scalability, High Availability & Replication, Cloud & Big Data, Database Administration & DevOps, Architecture and Application Development.

This is your chance to …