Bulgaria

The Spring Conference of the Bulgarian Oracle Users Group Conference of the Bulgarian Oracle Users Group will be held from 17th to 19th of May 2013 in SPA hotel Hisar in Hissarya.

• Georgi Kodinov, Senior Software Development Manager, ORACLE, Quick Dive into MySQL
• Georgi Kodinov, Senior Software Development Manager, ORACLE, MySQL Security : Past and Present
• Joze Senegacnik, , DBProf, Is My SQL Statement Using Exadata Features?

Latin America

Oracle Day Costa Rica (Thursday April 4)

• http://www.oracle.com/webapps/events/ns/EventsDetail.jsp?p_eventId=165842&src=7620972&src=7620972&Act=4
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Please RSVP for the Tuesday April 2nd meeting.

Date: Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

This is NOT the Oracle office in Irving. One day we need to have a state wide meeting and it just may be in the vicinity of this famous place!

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

Event is free to the public.

Presented by Dave Stokes, MySQL Community Manager North America, Oracle Corporation

Come see MySQL 5.6 in action and learn about the latest features.

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

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High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition has been selling very well. It’s translated into many languages. O’Reilly sends me a hard-copy of the translations, and I have a whole section on my bookshelf dedicated to them. It’s really satisfying to look at it.

Today I’m happy to announce that we’re moving forward with a new batch of translations. Demand has been so strong that we want to make the book accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Plus, I get a fat check every time O’Reilly sells the translation rights.

The new languages will include Australian, l337 (“Leet”), Jive, Ebonics, Elmer Fudd, Blissymbols, and Esperanto. Here’s a sample before-and-after paragraph:

Isolating the Column

We commonly see queries that defeat indexes or prevent MySQL from using the …

I just wanted to take a moment and thank, notice, what ever you want to call it, but share some love with all those and all things MySQL.

I read the post Let’s Celebrate MySQL 5.6 GA! – MySQL Community Reception by Oracle by Oracle MySQL Group and it got me to thinking of how proud I am of (and proud to be a part of) the whole MySQL Ecosystem.

We *should* all celebrate MySQL 5.6 GA! I well remember the 3.22 and 3.23 days, and there were many folks before me already using MySQL!!!

I love to see how it has continued to grow, the ecosystem and all things MySQL, that is. MySQL is better than ever. MariaDB is better than ever. Percona Server is better than ever. You have great Support options with MySQL/Oracle, SkySQL/MariaDB, and Percona as well – not to mention numerous others. I just love the fact that everyone is flourishing, …

High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition has been selling very well. It’s translated into many languages. O’Reilly sends me a hard-copy of the translations, and I have a whole section on my bookshelf dedicated to them. It’s really satisfying to look at it. Today I’m happy to announce that we’re moving forward with a new batch of translations. Demand has been so strong that we want to make the book accessible to as wide an audience as possible.

I'll be speaking at the MySQL Conference and Expo on April 22-25 in Santa Clara. On April 25 at 1:50 PM I'll be talking about using MySQL in the Amazon AWS cloud but to be honest, I hevn't done much formal preparations. I will prepare some slides here, but fact is that most of this session will be practical, hands-on stuff. Largely, I'll show stuff that I used when I was Database Architect and Admin for a reasonably large AWS installation.

Anyone telling you that Amazon AWS is just like any other environment, except that disk-I/O is slower, doesn't get it, there is much more to AWS than that. By using the services that comes as part of AWS there are loads on things you as a DBA or Devops can do to simplify and automate everyday tasks. Backups, slave provisioning, availability are things that can …

I grew up in the States. While growing up, I got interested in the country of Garistan. I was drawn to a country full hard-core passion for living a happy life. I studied the history and geography of Garistan, and got a pretty good feel for it.

So I moved there. At first, things seemed to go OK. Sure, there was a bit of a language barrier, but I was committed. I had a phrasebook. Some days were great, I did everything I needed to do and felt on top of the world. Some days I felt clumsy just trying to do normal tasks like food shopping. But I kept on going.

One day, I found a group of ex-patriots from the US. I went to the first meeting, a bit nervous, not quite sure what I was seeking out. What I found was relief. I could speak English without worry about how fast I was talking, or that anyone would assume I was a tourist. I could speak broken Garistanese without worrying about my accent and without worrying that I was being judged. …

Join Oracle’s MySQL Team on April 22, 2013, as we celebrate the general availability of MySQL 5.6. With product demos and fun activities in a relaxing atmosphere, this is the party for the MySQL community to get together and have a toast on the work all of us did to make MySQL 5.6 the best release ever. Whether you are an attendee at Percona Live, a member of local MySQL user groups, a MySQL user in the San Francisco Bay Area, or simply interested in MySQL technology, you’re all invited to Oracle’s MySQL Community Reception.
    •    Mingle with your peers and learn from real-world experiences.
    •    Meet MySQL engineers and get the first-hand information on the latest product development.
    •    Have lots of fun!

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

Location: …

We all know that it's very important to test your backups. It's also quite important to use indexes. It's somewhat important to ensure that your users have only the privileges to do what they need to do. But it's extremely important to make sure you dine with your MySQL friends at Pedros on the 23rd of April 2013. Please goto this page --> MySQL Community Dinner <-- and add your name to the comments.

See you there!