Calling all developers, DBAs, engineers, SREs, and database aficionados: we’re hitting the road and hope to see you along the way. It's always a highlight of our year when we get to meet up with our users and friends face-to-face, and we'll be attending events across the country (and abroad!) for the rest of 2018. If you see our booth, come say hello. 

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Below is a list of the places you'll be able to find us over the next nine months, plus descriptions of how we'll be involved at each event (and, in some cases, special ticket discount codes).

PGConf Silicon Valley was excellent this year: good organization, great speakers, and top-notch vibes in general. We were excited to see everybody visiting (and crowding!) our booth and the overall very positive community presence. Highlights included a presentation about Postgres' use at TripAdvisor, a look at Amazon RDS for Postgres, and consideration of system scalability and the future of relational database management systems.

Baron Schwartz, VividCortex's own founder and CEO, was at the Silicon Valley conference, and he's said that it was the best PGConf he's been to yet. On November 18th, Baron even led a breakout session, titled "Analyzing PostgreSQL Network Traffic with vc-pgsql-sniffer," in which he explained both the principles and practice that come together to result in VividCortex's powerful sniffer tools. Even the questions asked at Baron's talk were fantastic.

To watch a video of Baron's breakout session, find …

Hi!

Thanks everyone who attended the hands-on lab session on MySQL Cluster at Oracle OpenWorld today.

The following are the links for the slides, the HOL instructions, and the HOL extra instructions.

Will try to summarize the HOL session below.

Aim of the HOL was to help attendees to familiarize with MySQL Cluster. In particular, by:

1. Learning the basics of MySQL Cluster Architecture
2. Learning the basics of MySQL Cluster Configuration and Administration
3. Learning how to start a new Cluster for evaluation purposes and how …

Hi!

I'm speaking at Oracle Open World this October 29th (Thursday). My Session is a hands-on lab session: HOL3348 on MySQL Cluster.

If you are interested in familiarize a bit with MySQL Cluster this is definitely a session for you.

I will start by briefly introducing MySQL Cluster and its Architecture.

Then I will guide you through the needed steps to:

• Install a local MySQL Cluster
• Start MySQL Cluster
• Connect to MySQL Cluster (using the command line)
• Ways to monitor MySQL Cluster
• Safe shutdown of MySQL Cluster

We will have a chance to see which are the most common commands and operations used in MySQL Cluster Administration.

If there is …

As an update to the previous announcement from Mar 25, 2014 please find below the updated list of events where MySQL Community team is attending and/or supporting. This time you can find not only EMEA & APAC ones but also conferences & events we are covering in the US & Canada. You are invited to meet our engineers at the events below.  

EMEA 

• NEW!! BGOUG, Sandanski, Bulgaria, June 13, 2014
  •  Georgi Kodinov will attend and speak at this local Oracle User Group event. Feel free to come.
• PHP Tour Lyon, Lyon, France, June 23-24, 2014
  • MySQL …

This week we talk with former co-host Sarah Novotny about Data at OSCon. Ear Candy is about SQL Courses, and At the Movies is a two and a half hour tutorial about MySQL Scaling Strategies for Developers.

Events
DB Hangops - every other Wednesay at noon Pacific time

Upcoming MySQL events

OSCon 2014 will be held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon from Sunday July 20th through Thursday July 24th.

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So I’ve submitted my talks for the Tech14 UK Oracle User Group conference which is in Liverpool this year. I’m not going to give away the topics, but you can imagine they are going to be about data translation and movement and how to get your various databases talking together.

I can also say, after having seen other submissions for talks this year (as I’m helping to judge), that the conference is shaping up to be very interesting. There’s a good spread of different topics this year, but I know from having talked to the organisers that they are looking for more submissions in the areas of Operating Systems, Engineered Systems and Development (mobile and cloud).

If you’ve got a paper, presentation, or idea for one that you think would be useful, …

The PHP UnConference is taking place on May 17-18, 2014 on the Island of Majorka. MySQL team is going to be presented by Ulf Wendel at this event. As usual for all UnConferences there is no sessions/talks schedule announced prior the conference, attendees might vote for the most interesting topics at the event. So, do not miss to come to PHP UnConference at lovely Island of Majorka!! (in the case you still do not know whether come or not, maybe the price of tickets, weather forecast and/or flight ticket from several locations might convince you...). 

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It is our pleasure to announce MySQL presence at the OpenSource Developer Conference in Taipei, Taiwan next week. MySQL has secured 2 talks and the booth where you can meet our MySQL experts. Please mark your calendars for April 11-12, 2014, especially for following MySQL talks:

• Sharding and Scale-out Using MySQL Fabric by Ryusuke Kajiyama, the OSS specialist with over 10 years of experience in system design utilizing MySQL and Open Source solutions. His talk is scheduled for Apr 11 @ 10:20-10:50.
• MySQL Utilities by Ivan Tu, the MySQL Sales Consultant in Taipei. Ivan has Java programming background and is experienced in both, MySQL and Oracle database. His talk is scheduled for Apr 11 @ 11:50-12:20.

We are looking forward to talking to you at the OSDC next week!

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