PyTexas 2012 will be held in College Station this weekend. I will be speaking on MySQL Update — MySQL 5.6, Cluster 7.3, and Beyond and Seven Database Tricks.

Keep Austin Weird —

Keep Austin Weird is a popular saying in the capital of the State of Texas. The coming October those wishing to to help in these efforts can come hear me talk at Kuali Days 2012 about MySQL Database Administration or join the Austin MySQL Users Group to hear about MySQL 5.6 on October 15th! We’ll get some sort of RSVP for 15th set up so we can have enough pizza for all those on hand. Until then, fellow Texas, do not squat with your spurs on.

The Boston MySQL Users Group meets tonight and I will be presenting on the new features in MySQL 5.6. And I will have two FREE passes to MySQL Connect! See you at the Microsoft NERD Center at 7!

I will be presenting at the North East PHP Conference August 11th and 12th and then the Boston MySQL Users Group on Monday the 13th, both at the NERD Center.

I will be Southern California next week at two public events in Los Angeles and San Diego. MySQL 5.6 Update on August 1st and MySQL: New Features, Programming Mistakes and Optimization on August 2nd. Both are in Oracle offices, start at 7PM, and there will be Pizza! Please be totally cool dudes and dudettes and RSVP so we can order enough pizza to keep things totally tubular! And there will be MySQL SWAG given away!

Save money on your ticket to MySQl Connect by registering on or before the 27th of July. This is your chance to talk to the engineers that write MySQL, the folks at the big companies who are doing amazing things with MySQL, and network with other MySQL-ers.

And you can catch the MySQL Community Team at these events:

• August 1st Los Angeles Moodle Moot
• August 1st Los Angeles MySQL Users Group*
• August 2nd San Diego PHP Users Group*
• August 11th-12th Northeast PHP Conference
• August 13th Boston MySQL Users …

Come joins us at a Birds of a Feather Session at OSCON

Moderated by: Dave Stokes
7:00pm Wednesday, 07/18/2012
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MySQL is the most popular web database and last years MySQL BOF at OSCON attracted fifty people and ran well past the scheduled hour (so please put us early on the night and do not book the room right after). We had several big names in attendance as well as general users of the product. This was a valuable question and answer system for the MySQL developers and the community where both groups received lots of valuable information.

And we will have some free goodies to hand out!

I can not promise that all the MySQL Engineers and Staff at OSCON will be in attendance as 7PM PDT is too late/early for some of them. But please attend if you are in the area!

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Did you ever wonder how the big companies run things behind the scenes? Come to the MySQL Connect Conference and learn from the best. There are over seventy sessions and the following session are from MySQL customers. And please note the early registration discount window is closing!

• Sheeri Cabral — Database Scaling at Mozilla andGoogle-Hacking MySQL
• Bradley Kuszmaul Chief Architect , MIT — Solving the Challenges of Big Databases with MySQL
• Andrew Aksyonoff Sphinx Technologies Inc — Full-Text Search with MySQL and Sphinx
• Daniel Austin Chief Architect , PayPal, Inc. — Big Data Is a Big Scam (Most of the Time)
• Eric Grancher DBA , Cern — CERN’s MySQL “as a Service” Deployment with Oracle VM: Empowering Users
• VADYM TKACHENKO Percona Inc — MySQL and Solid-State Drives: Usage …

MySQL Connect is approaching and I started making note of the sessions I am going to want to attend. There are 77 great sessions and the following ten caught my interest. Hopefully I will see you in some of the following:

1. BOF8978 – MySQL Cluster: From Zero to One Billion in Five Easy Steps

   Bernhard Ocklin – Director MySQL Cluster, Oracle
   Andrew Morgan – MySQL Senior Product Manager, Oracle
   Matthew Keep – MySQL Product Manager, Oracle

   Of course it takes more than five steps to scale to more than one billion queries per minute, but the new configuration …

Techweek started today in Chicago with the mayor promising to change the name of the town from ‘he Second City’ to ‘The Startup City’. Those who want to start with MySQL should attend my MySQL Hands On Lab Saturday from 3:00 to 4:45 in 4-7 A/B.