Wed 26 March at 2pm GMT/3pm CET we will present a new webinar on MySQL for Online Applications. Details and registration are here.

MySQL finds its sweet spot in online and web 2.0 application, because of the scalability reliability and the ease of use of the server. In a typical approach, users start with a simple architecture, with one server, then they need to scale in order to support the increasing number of users and the demand for more computer resources.

During the presentation, we will talk about the common ways to scale-out, how to provide high availability and about the common components of a web 2.0 solution and its interaction with the database.

The Q&A will be posted on this blog.

For the MySQL users who are still unfamiliar with the new features of MySQL Enterprise (2007 Fall Edition), I will present a webinar on this topic on Monday 3rd of March @ 3pm CET. The webinar will be in Italian, but the slides are rigourously in English, so if you are interested, just wait approx one week and you will be able to download slides and recording of this event.

The latest version of MySQL Enterprise is powered with an improved version of the Enterprise Monitor, which has a new set of Replication advisors and new set of cool graphs, to instantly control your servers. There is also a big improvement in the overall scalability of the Enterprise Monitor.

During the presentation we will discuss these new features and we will see the latest improvements in the Enterprise binaries.

If you are interested in any specific detail associated to this topic, feel free to comment on this blog or to drop me …

I have presented this webinar in Italian on Mon 12th Feb. The main topic was the scale-out strategy with MySQL, based on Replication, MySQL Cluster, in combination with other HA solutions, such as DRBD. This picture shows an example of shard using DRBD and MySQL Replication.





The recording (in Italian) and the slides (in English) of the webinar are available here:

Here is an abstract of the Q&A session (still italian):

Q from Giovanni: Volendo implementare una soluzione Mysql in un ambiente completamente virtuale (macchine virtuali su piattaforma esx server clusterizzata) è preferibile aumentare semplicemente il numero di mysql server …

I'm pleased to announce that Tag1 Consulting has partnered up with MySQL AB to offer an online presentation titled "Achieving Optimal MySQL Performance For Drupal". Aiming to provide a better understanding of how to properly monitor and tune your MySQL database, the online Webinar will take place on Thursday, January 31st, 2008, at 16:00 UTC (11:00 am EST). The presentation will last 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for questions and answers.

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