Adzuna is a fast growing search engine for classified ads specialized in jobs, properties and cars. Headquartered in the UK and launched in 2011, Adzuna searches thousands of sites and tens of millions of ads to make it very easy to find the perfect job, home or car locally. It furthermore provides a wealth of statistics such as salaries trends graphs and comparisons, geographic jobs maps, house prices...and more. Additionally, Adzuna is integrated with Facebook and LinkedIn and shows open vacancies one is connected to through his/her own network. The search engine powers a number of government applications and is integrated into the UK's Prime Minister economic dashboard.

Challenges

• When Adzuna's founders were selecting the database powering the search engine's architecture, they were planning for scalability and reliability. Not only did they expect fast …

The MariaDB Foundation, stewards of the community-maintained open source MariaDB database that is sweeping the Internet, announced today the next steps towards a community-managed governance structure. With the appointment of a new, enlarged Board of Directors and a new interim chief executive, the MariaDB Foundation is now on track to a fully member-led governance in the second half of 2013.

The Board members are now Rasmus Johansson, Andrew Katz, Simon Phipps, Michael “Monty” Widenius, and Jeremy Zawodny. The first act of the new interim Board was to appoint Johansson as Chair and Phipps as Secretary and Chief Executive Officer.

The Board bring together a wealth of experience. Johansson is an experienced leader within the MariaDB developer community. Katz is a well-known expert in open source legal matters and has been acting as COO of the Foundation until now. Phipps brings experience of IBM and Sun Microsystems as well as …

There was once a big hooplah about the MySQL Storage Engine Architecture and how it was easy to just slot in some other method of storage instead of the provided ones. Over the years I’ve repeatedly mentioned how this wasn’t really …

While Domas may have rather effictively trolled the discussion with his post on howto configure table/user statistics (which gave me a good chuckle I do have to say), it’s at least incorrect for Percona Server as you have to enable the “userstat” server option :)

That being said, once enabled there are no extra configuration variables to think about. This is a huge advantage over configuring PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA - which has a total of THIRTY configuration options (31 if you include the global enable/disable option).

Some of these thirty odd configuration variables are only going to matter if you’re loading your own plugins, and even then, it’s probably only going to matter if they use the MySQL mutex implementations rather than, …

Next week is the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013.

Davi Arnaut and I are co-presenting InnoDB: A journey to the core, based on my InnoDB blog series by the same name. We will (fairly quickly) cover InnoDB’s storage formats as described in those posts, but in an interactive format. There will be some new material that hasn’t been blogged yet (mostly stuff that is more difficult to explain or has been incompletely described in innodb_diagrams). Most importantly, Davi and I will be available for questions, and hopefully some of the InnoDB developers …

Join Oracle’s MySQL team on April 22 to celebrate the general availability of MySQL 5.6. Get together in a relaxed atmosphere—make a toast, enjoy product demos and fun activities, and celebrate the MySQL community effort and contributions that made the latest release possible. Register here today!

Date: Monday, April 22, 2013
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM

Location: TechMart Santa Clara
5201 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA, USA
(1-minute walk from Hyatt Regency Santa Clara)

Don't miss the opportunity to enjoy an evening of casual but informative conversation, with complimentary food and refreshments from Oracle! Walk-ins are also welcome.

Join Continuent, SkySQL and MariaDB for a day of free tutorials and interactive discussions around the MySQL and Maria databases, the Cloud, and High Availability, immediately following Percona Live: MySQL User Conference and Expo 2013.

Robert Hodges (CEO, Continuent) and Edward Archibald (CTO, Continuent) will be talking about "Scalable MySQL Operation in the Cloud with Continuent Tungsten" at

Join us next Friday in Santa Clara for a free day of learning and fun from the SkySQL & MariaDB gang & their partners

We’re proud to announce that Jim Tommaney, CTO of Calpont, has just signed on to speak at the MySQL & Cloud Database Solutions Day, hosted by SkySQL and MariaDB - taking place next Friday, April 26, directly after Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo.

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Join us next Friday in Santa Clara for a free day of learning and fun from the SkySQL & MariaDB gang & their partners

We’re proud to announce that Jim Tommaney, CTO of Calpont, has just signed on to speak at the MySQL & Cloud Database Solutions Day, hosted by SkySQL and MariaDB - taking place next Friday, April 26, directly after Percona Live: MySQL Conference & Expo.

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Date: Tuesday, June 04, 2013
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Oracle Corporation
6031 Connection Drive
Suite 900
Las Colinas, TX 75039

Event is free to the public. But please RSVP so we order enough pizza.

Learn how to set up MySQL replication for simple master/slave relationship, including a live demo. Then we will cover how to scale using replication and advanced strategies. Giveaways include books from Oracle press!

Pizza at 5:30 p.m.
Presentation begins at 6:00 p.m.