First, a thank you to everyone who attended the webinar Today, I appreciate your time and nice comments. As promised, here are answers to questions that couldn’t be answered during the talk:

Q: How do you install the tools?

The manual has full details, but it’s important to know that the latest release for every tool is also available for direct download in a url like this: http://www.percona.com/get/<tool-name>. I use this a lot when I just need a specific tool and I’m working on a server without the toolkit installed.

Q: How to make the tools connect to MySQL

The slides are now available here, and slide 7 provides a basic introduction to Data Source Names, with more details available …

On December 19th at 1 PM Eastern / 10 AM Pacific, I will be giving a
webinar entitled “10 Percona Toolkit Tools Every MySQL DBA Should Know
About”.

As a Consultant, I make heavy use of Percona Toolkit tools while
solving customers’ problems, and I have used this experience to select
what I consider to be the top 10 tools everyone working with MySQL
should know about. I will present each of the selected tools using
examples based on real-world cases.

You can sign up by clicking the “Register” button here. Hope to see
you next week!

Online backup has been one of the most requested features for MySQL. With MySQL Enterprise Backup, developers and DBAs have tools they need to safely and rapidly backup and restore their databases. In this webinar we will go into the advantages of Hot "Online" backups. We will show how MySQL Enterprise Backup supports full, incremental, partial, and compressed backups that allow you to perform consistent Point-in-Time Recovery, as well as saving both time and money.

In this Webinar you will learn:

• Backup Strategies & Methods
• Comparison of backup types for MySQL
• MySQL Enterprise Backup: Features
• MySQL Enterprise Backup Performance
• MySQL Enterprise Backup: Architecture
• MySQL Enterprise Backup: How it Works
• MySQL Enterprise Backup: Script Examples

Who
Mike Frank and Alex Roedling for the …

We've just published the recordings for our webinars; Migrating MyISAM to InnoDB and Introduction to Percona Server, XtraDB and Xtrabackup.  To listen, click on (Watch: Recorded Webinar) on each of these links.

We're planning for future webinars next year.  If you have any suggestions, feel free to leave a comment.

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We had some technical difficulties with Webex today which prevented from all registered attendees to be able to join webinar. I personally would be very upset having booked my time to attend event, pre-registered to ensure there is a space available and when unable to join at the time of event (which is frankly exactly what happened to me).

As result we have scheduled Migrating MyISAM to Innodb webinar to run again on Tuesday, December 7 at 9AM Pacific (Same Time). Here is direct link if you would like to register.

Note we also Webinar on Percona Server, Xtrabackup and XtraDB next week which is great if …

We've had such a large number of signups to our Migrating MyISAM to InnoDB webinar, that we decided to hold one more before the year is out:

December, 8th 9AM PST: Introduction to Percona Server, XtraDB and Xtrabackup.

As the title suggests: this presentation is an introduction.  We will be running through the main aspects that change, and where you can expect to get the most benefit.

This will be a technical talk, but perhaps less technical than some of …

We already have more that 500 registrants for this MySQL web seminar. Join us and the crowd to learn the design dos and don'ts for MySQL. We will show you how to design, forward and reverse engineer databases including discussions on datatypes, indexes, and foreign keys for various application scenarios.

In this technical presentation, we will cover:

• MySQL design basics
  • Data Modeling Basics
    • Physical and Logical Models
    • "Dos" and "Don'ts"
  • How to design MySQL for your specific application
    • Datatypes
    • Indexes
    …

On the 9th of September at 10am CET I will present in Italian a Webinar titled: "Scaling Web Services with MySQL Cluster". You can register here.

This is a summary of the english webinar series in two parts that are now available on-demand:

• Scaling Web Services with MySQL Cluster, Part 1: An Alternative to MySQL Server & memcached
• Scaling Web Services with MySQL Cluster, Part 2: An Alternative to the Memory Storage Engine

Content

There are two common choices to power web …

The MySQL Enterprise Spring 2010 Release includes key improvements designed to help you proactively optimize MySQL performance and identify potential issues before they can become costly outages or slowdowns. In this webinar we will explore the new features of the MySQL Enterprise Monitor 2.2 that are designed to save DBAs and Developers time and effort in keeping MySQL systems running at the highest levels of security, performance and availability. Join us and learn about:

• How the MySQL Connectors can now be used to collect, aggregate and monitor MySQL query performance data
• How to quickly identify which queries are performing full table scans
• How to isolate your worst performing queries based on total execution counts, time, data returned, date/time, query content, query type, and more
• How to identify and drill down into line-level source code for specific query executions
• New …

Join us for this informative Italian technical webinar with Gabriele Columbro at Alfresco Software and me at MySQL.
We will explore the benefits of an open source Collaborative Content Management stack based on Alfresco and MySQL.

This webinar describes how Alfresco Share offers a great experience for team collaboration and will detail use case examples of organisation who have adopted Alfresco Share as a collaboration platform for coordinating with distributed teams, clients and business partners.

Alfresco delivers the collaborative features of SharePoint but runs on an open source stack and comes embedded MySQL as the default database. MySQL is the world's most popular open source database at the heart of many Enterprise Content Management solutions.

The presentation will be approximately 45 minutes long followed by Q&A. Register …