Let me tell you a very touching story about these awards.
As I said in the comments : Sometimes we think about something and the next minute we did it…
And it exactly what happened, I took my inspiration from the TUAW Best Of 2011 (Yes, I’m also an Apple fan boy, sorry :-)), and a few minutes later, MySQL[plus] awards 2011 were live !

I thought I could have 50 voters, perhaps 100 voters, in my wildest dreams…

But more than 300 voters and more than 4000 views later, the reality is there : You are amazing !

But, no, it wasn’t perfect !

Shlomi said “You’ve got yourself into a bottomless pit!”, and it’s …

You have until Jan. 31 to vote for your favorites tools and services, so, vote now !

Thanks again all folks for your keen interest and your involvement, it was a big surprise to see so many contributors

Follow this link to vote : http://www.mysqlplus.net/2012/01/05/vote-mysqlplus-community-awards-2011/

And come february the 1st for the final results…

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First of all, I wish you a happy new year.
Many things happened last year, it was really exciting to be involved in the MySQL ecosystem.
I hope this enthusiasm will be increased this year, up to you !

To start the year, I propose the MySQL[plus] Awards 2011
It will only take 5 minutes to fill out these polls.
Answer with your heart first and then with your experience with some of these tools or services.

Polls will be closed January 31, so, vote now !
For “other” answers, please,  let me a comment with details.

Don’t hesitate to submit proposal for tools or services in the comments.
And, please, share these polls !

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, …

I was glad to present how to schedule and monitor mysqldump with ZRM community last week in Paris as part of the MySQL Meetup Viadeo / LeMUG

You can find my slides below, enjoy ! :

MYSQLDUMP & ZRM COMMUNITY (EN) View more presentations from Cédric PEINTRE Thanks to Olivier and all the viadeo team in Paris for this event.
And, of course, thanks to all attendees. We need more events like that in France ! Related Posts :

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Percona Live London 2011 is over and it was a wonderfull event. Thanks to Percona for this quality event in Europe.
And thanks to all speakers for their outstanding performances.

I just want to share with you some words about PLUK2011, these few words reflect my technical feelings after the event :
(This is the live transcript of my notes during the conference in random order)

• MySQL is not dead !
• Sharding is a good way for write scalability
• It’s difficult to find a real HA solution for MySQL
• MHA rocks !
• IO are more than ever our enemies (and we must get into their privacy)
• Where is Oracle ?!
• Glad to see SkySQL there
• We probably need new références for SSD
• Keep in mind the operability of the proposed solutions
• Handler socket is …

[ UPDATED 2011-09-22 ] :
For French attendees : Vous participez ou souhaitez participer à cette conférence, rejoignez le groupe de la communauté francophone pour partager autour de cet évènement
For All : Download the take away PDF of the conference here : PLL2011.pdf
For All : Download the schedules : Percona_Live_London2011.ics

I don’t want to debate about the next MySQL Conference here, you can find a great summary post here : …