The conference season has begun for us here at SkySQL. It seems like the almost all linux and MySQL shows are in the next four months. This is the time of year that we get to collect those airline points, have our beds made for us, eat out a few times a day and put on a few pounds! I have been practicing for this all year. Check out our Events Section to see all of our upcoming events.

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The conference season has begun for us here at SkySQL. It seems like the almost all linux and MySQL shows are in the next four months. This is the time of year that we get to collect those airline points, have our beds made for us, eat out a few times a day and put on a few pounds! I have been practicing for this all year. Check out our Events Section to see all of our upcoming events.

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What's new in VividCortex? We'll do these blog posts once a week to let you know all of the changes such as new features, bug fixes, performance improvements, and even a peek into the future.

Upcoming Events

If you haven't seen the VividCortex application in action, please register for a live demo on production systems on May 14th.

Catch us at the following upcoming events:

• Gophercon
• Monitorama

Upcoming Improvements

• Agent management UI in the web application.
• Agent performance improvements.
• Events dashboard redesign and performance improvements.
• Replication dashboard, for real-time live updating view of your replication topology and status. …

Following my previous post on the launch, I just rolled Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on an Amazon EC2 t1.micro instance (not something you expect to run a database server on, for sure – 1 vCPU, 0.613GiB RAM). If you do an apt-cache search mysql you get 435 return result sets with the default configuration (trusty: main & universe).

If you do apt-get install mysql-server, you get MySQL 5.5. You enter the password of choice, and before you know it, MySQL is installed (a SELECT VERSION() will return 5.5.35-1ubuntu1).

Next you decide to install MariaDB. I run an apt-get install mariadb-server. It pulls in libjemalloc (for TokuDB) and I expect future releases to ship this engine by default. You enter the password, and you get a new message (as pictured).

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Be sure to check out my other posts on mysqldump:
– Scripting Backups of MySQL with Perl via mysqldump
– Splitting a MySQL Dump File Into Smaller Files Via Perl
– Creating and restoring database backups with mysqldump and MySQL Enterprise Backup – Part 1 of 2
– Creating and restoring database backups with mysqldump and MySQL Enterprise Backup – Part 2 of 2

I have already written several posts on using mysqldump. This post will be a quick guide to using …

As one decompresses from the active month that April brings to the MySQL ecosystem, its worth noting that I received a MySQL Community Award – Community Contributor of the Year 2014 award at the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2014 in Santa Clara. I was extremely happy and thankful to receive such an award and I still am. Thank you MySQL Community.

My reason for winning, now immortalised:

Colin’s list of service to the MySQL Community goes back almost 10 years. He was a community engineer starting in 2005, chaired some of the O’Reilly MySQL conferences, ran the MySQL projects for Google Summer of Code. As a partner and Chief …

ICTexpo Helsinki 2014 offers two effective days full of innovations, inspiration and information - the biggest professional IT show in the Nordics with large scale of solutions to help you to take your business to the next level. Continuent will be exhibiting in Red Hat Village [booth 5f31], which gathers the most significant enterprise level companies from the Open Source ecosystem in Finland

MySQL April Newsletter is now available! Read this edition to learn more details about the abundant product announcements we made recently, including MySQL 5.7 Development Milestone Release, MySQL Workbench 6.1 GA, as well as the Release Candidate of MySQL Fabric. You'll also find information regarding the latest white papers, upcoming webinars and events, and technical blogs for tips and tricks using MySQL.

Enjoy and hope you find it informative! 

MySQL for Visual Studio is a product including all of the Visual Studio integration previously available as part of Connector/Net. The 1.2.0 version is an alpha release of this product that intents to introduce users to the new features in this version.

I will be speaking at the Chicago MySQL Users Group meeting on May 21st at 223 South Wacker Drive. Times, subject of the talk, and other details will be flushed out later but be aware that you will have to RSVP to get you name of the security guard’s list for admission.

Chicago Pizza and MySQL 5.7

The meeting will start at 6:30PM in the Oracle office at 233 South Wacker Drive on the 45th floor. The presentation will be on MySQL 5.7.