I’m interested in meeting up and sharing experiences about using MySQL and managing MySQL servers with people here locally in Madrid. I had a quick look around and could see no MySQL user groups locally, so it might be nice to create such a group and exchange ideas over a beer, coffee or cola every once in a while. If you’re in Madrid and are interested please let me know. I’ve created a temporary  email address: madrid-mysql-users-2013 AT wl0.org (careful with the domain), which you can contact me on to confirm an interest.  Oh and I’d expect these meet ups to be in Spanish, but that’s not a requirement.

Estoy interesado en reunirme y compartir experiencias sobre el uso de MySQL y administración de servidores de MySQL con la gente aquí en Madrid. He echado un vistazo en Internet y no he visto ningún grupo de usuarios de MySQL a nivel local, por lo que sería bueno crear un grupo e intercambiar ideas mientras tomamos …

SkySQL and Monty Program are on the road with our joint Meetup in Amsterdam where Monty Widenius - the origninal creator of MySQL - will unveil his vision of the future of the MySQL database via MariaDB.

Seppo Jaakola from Codership will give a presentation about Galera Cluster for MySQL and MariaDB.

In addition we will have speakers from Booking.com as well as Anders Karlsson from SkySQL who will talk about Big Data.

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Le 27 mars de 14h à 19h à l'Atelier du France, Paris

SkySQL et Monty Program organisent une demie journée de conférences consacrées aux bonnes pratiques et retours d'expériences autour des bases de données MySQL®et MariaDB, l'objectif étant de répondre aux préoccupations actuelles des administrateurs de bases de données.

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At Collaborate, and on the Web, come on and join us and F2F with the tech-saavy! COLLABORATE Social Media Hour  Tues, 4/24, 1–2 pm Exhibit Hall-IOUG Booth There’s no 140 character limit for this meet up! Stop by the IOUG … Continue reading →

I  gave a lightning talk on MySQL Innodb and how realestate.com.au configures their databases to the DevOPS Melbourne meetup last night.

My slides can be found here.

Simply some take aways are

• Use Innodb for everything (unless another engine is appropriate)
• Having the working set in bufferpool makes MySQL Innodb fast by eliminating those foreground randrom reads of tablespace
• Use a RAID controller with BBU and write back cache for transactional log performance

Thanks To Evan Bottcher for owning and organising the meetup! 

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I'll be one of two speakers at the next Seattle Web Technology Bi-Weekly Meet up on Nov 21 at the Citrus Lounge.

They've sexed it up a little by calling it a face-off between Windows Azure and Amazon EC2  (no prizes for guessing which side I represent) but really it's going to be a primer on the Platform-as-a service and Infrastructure-as-a-service models. I expect some lively discussions during Q&A.

I'll be covering questions such as what cloud computing is, what EC2 provides, what is datacenter automation and the …

We have two engineers from SkySQL who will be talking at the MySQL London Meetup on the 18th July and we welcome anyone who wants to chat to us to sign-up and come along.

I (Andrew Hutchings) will be giving a talk on Drizzle (a database server that originated as a fork of MySQL) and mydumper (a multi-threaded, high-performance dump/restore toolset for MySQL).

We also have Mark Riddoch coming along to talk about the work on our Reference Architecture toolset.

There will also be other representatives of SkySQL there and we will be hanging around in the pub afterwards to talk about anything in the MySQL ecosystem.

A few months ago Ronald Bradford took it upon himself to reinvigorate the MySQL community in NY. It was then that Ronald came up with EffectiveMySQL, a much needed breeze of fresh air in the big apple’s for us MySQL users.

This coming Tuesday, 26th April 2011, there is going to be the second (of many more to come) presentation, this time about “Silent data truncations because of overlooked configuration / design”. The actual title is: “MySQL Idiosyncrasies That Bite” presented by Ronald Bradford himself in midtown Manhattan. More details can be found here.

See you there!

The first EffectiveMySQL meetup will be held in NY on Tuesday 22nd March 2011 by Ronald Bradford. Details here

The title of the talk is “How better indexes save you money”. Saving money? Hey sure thing :) I’m in Ronald.

For those of you who do not know Ronald Bradford, he’s an Oracle Ace Director in the MySQL field, a long time community contributor and a MySQL expert.

I hope to see you at 902 Broadway New York, NY on Tuesday 22nd March 6pm.

If you're in the Los Angeles area on Feb 15, come hear my talk at LAMySQL inspired by learnings from real-life experiences. In addition to hearing a very unique and interesting talk, you can win an AppleTV thanks to awesome folks at @NoodleYard.

Real-Life Use Cases From Data Administration Hell

Data is the most valuable asset of an organization because it's irreplaceable.

Yet, we hear about f**k ups related to data administration every day by startups and organizations of all sizes. Sometimes it's no one's fault. Sometimes it's the fault of a drunk friend who shouldn't have been [wherever he was] at the first place.

Yet, at other times, the disaster could have been prevented. Sometimes, these f**k ups are caused by bad design. Sometimes, it's a bad …