POSSCON, The Palmetto Open Source Software Conference, is being held next week on the 27th and 28th in Columbia, South Carolina. I was asked to combine two presentations so be prepared for MySQL Update & 20 MySQL Tips in 20 Minutes. This is a great conference in a thriving community. The local government, tech sector, and schools are working together to make a strong partnership to develop more high tech businesses in the area.

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We here at www.perconas.com are thrilled about the upcoming Percona Live Conference. We are excited and are gearing up for our first multi-day conference. It is sure to be three days of technical sessions and networking among the MySQL Community and we are proud to be a part of the conference.

We can’t wait to see you there!

Oh boy, I'm starting to feel the stress of having to prepare a little bit of this and a little bit of that for the upcoming MySQL User Conference (Santa Clara, April 10 to 13). But I wanted to also jump on this meme and list a few sessions I definitively want to attend:

I'm speaking, so I suppose I need to attend:

• How to evaluate which MySQL High Availability solution best suits you. This 3 hour tutorial I'm co-presenting with Ben Mildren, a former Nokia collague who now works with Pythian.

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Many folks know that I have recorded sessions at conferences I attend, most notably the MySQL conferences. At last year’s OSCon, I had some trouble with the convention center staff getting upset that I was going into rooms during off-times (like before the morning sessions and at the end of the day) because I did not have a staff badge. They did not complain to me, they complained to O’Reilly, who knew I was recording and was turning the other cheek until then. The O’Reilly associate I spoke with was friendly, but let me know of the complaint and said, “You will get permission from the speakers before publishing, right?”

And of course I said yes. However, that was a pain – getting permission after the fact, since not everyone put their contact information in their presentation.

And I have been hemming and hawing about whether or not I want to record at …

 DrupalCON 2012 is about to begin.

Come by and say hello at booth #400. You can enter to win an Amazon kindle, have a hands on demo of Oracle Enterprise Linux, MySQL Enterprise Monitor, and collect a MySQL gift or two.

On my drive down to DrupalCON, I was listening to the @OURSQL podcast Episode 82.  What a great resource of information! They gave a full list of all relevant conferences and events for the community to attend.  

MariaDB-5.5.21-beta is the first MariaDB release featuring the new thread pool. Oracle offers a commercial thread pool plugin for MySQL Enterprise, but now MariaDB brings a thread pool implementation to the community!

If you are not familiar with the term, please read the Knowledge Base article about it.

The main design goal of the thread pool is to increase the scalability of the MariaDB server with many concurrent connections. In order to test and demonstrate this, I have run the sysbench OLTP RO benchmark with up to 4096 threads to compare the new pool-of-threads and the traditional thread-per-connection scheduler:

Benchmark description:

• sysbench multi table OLTP, readonly
• 16 tables, totaling 40 mio …