Hey everybody!

The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo just wrapped up last week and we’re looking to get some conference in review talk from everyone! Talk about your favorite sessions, new things you learned, and your overall opinion of the conference!

Hop online Wednesday at 12:00pm PDT (19:00 GMT) to join the discussion and share your experience from the 2013 Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo.

Be sure to watch this twitter search or this blog post get a link for the google hangout tomorrow!

Some talks that were specifically called out:

• Monitoring MySQL with OpenTSDB by Geoffrey Anderson
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SkySQL today announced that it has signed a merger agreement with Monty Program Ab, creators of the fastest growing open source database technology: MariaDB.  This merger reunites key members of the original MySQL AB developer and services teams. Their aim is to develop MariaDB into a truly interoperable, NewSQL open source database in collaboration with its customers, partners and the community. The company also pledges to further evolve its offering for users of the MySQL database.

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SkySQL today announced that it has signed a merger agreement with Monty Program Ab, creators of the fastest growing open source database technology: MariaDB.  This merger reunites key members of the original MySQL AB developer and services teams. Their aim is to develop MariaDB into a truly interoperable, NewSQL open source database in collaboration with its customers, partners and the community. The company also pledges to further evolve its offering for users of the MySQL database.

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3Ci processes over a billion transactions a month. More than 100 million unique U.S. consumers have engaged with a business through our platform. All that activity creates massive amounts of data. The Data Team at 3Ci is responsible for keeping our offerings running at optimal performance and for making sense of our data. They manage MySQL [...] …

We were delighted last week to find out that we’d been named one of the ‘2013 Top 100 Europe’ winning companies by the Red Herring editorial team. Congratulations to all companies involved!

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We were delighted last week to find out that we’d been named one of the ‘2013 Top 100 Europe’ winning companies by the Red Herring editorial team. Congratulations to all companies involved!

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Annnnnd here’s the recording:

Hey all!

The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo is coming up in 2 weeks, meaning the last of preparations are under way. In the meantime, #DBHangOps is coming your way on Wednesday at 12:00pm PDT (19:00 GMT) with:

• Talk about Performance Schema from Mark Leith
• Some discussion on how people use and manage MySQL slow query logs in their environments
• Filesystems and MySQL — which do you use, why, and how
• What you’re excited about at Percona Live!

As always, hit up this twitter search or this blog post to grab the google hangout link to join!

See y’all on Wednesday!

Have you ever wondered what was in those .frm files littered throughout your data directory? Better still, have you encountered a situation where your data is either missing (was deleted) or damaged and all you have is the .frm files but don't know the structure of the table? Well, wonder no more!

The MySQL Utilities Team is pleased to announce the newest utility - the .frm reader (mysqlfrm). This utility is designed to read .frm files and produce a facsimile of the CREATE statement for the table or view.

That's Impossible! How Can That Work?
It works by making a copy of the .frm file(s) and launching a new, read-only instance of your existing server. The server need not be running but you are required to provide an open port for the new instance with the --port option.

The utility will launch the cloned server without reading your configuration file (--no-defaults). The utility also makes some …

The MySQL Utilities Team is pleased to announce a major advancement of MySQL Utilities. It is now available as a separate download!

That's right. If you want to use MySQL Utilities without installing MySQL Workbench, you can do that now.

The Utilities release-1.3.0 has been built for Windows Installer, RPM archive, and .tar/.zip. We have also made downloads for source only if you want to use Utilities to develop your own utilities or install the product in custom location. We plan to add other repositories in the future.

Is that it? Well, not quite. We have also included a new utility - the .frm Reader. See the blog, "New Utility: .frm Reader" for more information.

If you'd like to try out the new download, visit the MySQL Workbench download page:

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/tools/utilities/ …

The MySQL Utilities Team is pleased to announce our latest release, version 1.2.1. This release contains many quality improvements and enhancements to the HA and Replication utilities. The following lists some of the most significant improvements.

• Improved transaction gathering algorithm for failover
  • Skips slaves that are already caught up
  • Ensures all transactions in the relay logs on the slaves are executed first
• External scripts in mysqlfailover and mysqlrpladmin now receive the old and new master information
• Improved demote master handling for switchover
• Improved connection error handling
• Quoting of tables and database names has been improved
• Login-path feature now reads port and socket

The utilities team continues to focus on improving usability, making features easier to use, and …