Get the most out of your use of MySQL Cluster by attending the MySQL Cluster training course. This three day course:

• Explains the concepts of MySQL Cluster in detail
• Describes the different nodes in MySQL Cluster and their purposes
• Explains how the data is distributed and replicated in the MySQL Cluster
• Installs all the different nodes used in the MySQL Cluster
• Starts and stop the different nodes as needed
• Shows how the different configuration files work and be able to configure all possible types of clusters
• Uses the cluster in single user mode, and explains when this is necessary
• Shows how to upgrade cluster components and configuration settings
• Explains how node failure is detected and …

I’m off to speak at the Utah Oracle User’s Group Training Days 2013 tomorrow and Thursday. I’m presenting on Oracle Database Triggers and on techniques leveraging PHP and MySQL Striped Views. If you’re not there, you can check this older (but recently updated) post on PHP and MySQL Striped Views.

Hope to see a few folks who use the blog. BTW, I won’t be at Collaborate 2013 this year. Travel budgets are always tight, and this year they’re more than tight.

The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 is almost 1 month away. It's time to start planning, set the expectations, and decide what to attend. This post will give a roundup of some of the sessions that I recommend attending and I look forward to.

First, the unexpected!

After much talk and disbelief, here they come! Oracle engineers will participate to the Percona Live conference. This is wonderful! Their participation was requested by the organizers, by the attendees, and by community advocates, who all told the Oracle management how important it is to be in this conference. Finally, they have …

I’m pleased to announce that Oracle is sending some of their top technical people to speak at the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. The conference takes place April 22-25, 2013 at the Santa Clara Convention Center and Hyatt Santa Clara.

Tomas Ulin, VP, MySQL Engineering for Oracle, will present an invited keynote talk on “Driving MySQL Innovation” during the Tuesday morning opening keynotes. With the recent release of MySQL 5.6, conference attendees will hear about the latest developments of this major MySQL release.

In addition to Tomas, Oracle MySQL technologists will also lead three breakout …

In this post I provide some tips and advice on how to become a published auther for Oracle, MS SQL Server, and MySQL

With each release, the MySQL database brings you even better performance. To get the most from your MySQL servers, performance tuning is important. And what better route than to take the MySQL for Performance Tuning training course.

In this four-day instructor-led class you will learn to:

• Understand the basics of Performance Tuning
• Use the tools of performance tuning
• Tune the MySQL server instance to improve performance
• Improve performance of tables
• Implement proper Schema Design to improve performance
• Improve the performance of MySQL queries

This course is available as:

• Training-on-Demand: Start training within 24 hrs of registering and follow the course at your own pace and from your own desk.
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Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL; these database technologies among various other similar innovations are running this world virtually and bloggers have got lot to say in this regard. This Log Buffer Edition is yet another voice in this arena.

Oracle:

Oliver Steinmeier is explaining the JDeveloper and Fusion Applications in a lucid way.

London prepares for a surge of developer brainpower during the Devoxx UK conference on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 26th and 27th, Yolande Poirer tells us.

It’s hard to believe that another year has passed from last RSA. But, indeed, time flies when you’re busy, I guess, …

Intro
While working on one of the MySQL to Oracle replication projects for Continuent, I needed to implement an open-source utility for transforming MySQL schema to an Oracle dialect (DDL statements that create specific schema on Oracle) to save from otherwise tedious work. This article introduces ./ddlscan tool, which does that and is extensible to do much more.

Ingredients
Here's what you'll need:

• Your favorite DBMS with some tables. Currently supported MySQL, Oracle and PostgreSQL.
• Latest Tungsten Replicator build. Not even needed to install, enough to untar.
• Velocity template of your choice. You will find …

Today we released MySQL Connector/Python v1.0.9. Release notes can be found in the MySQL Developver Zone.

Connector/Python v1.0.9 contains some important fixes, especially for the Windows platform. It also comes with a new connection argument called force_ipv6, and can be used to force IPv6 when an address resolves to both IPv4 and v6. Also, RPM packages have been made available in addition to the TAR/ZIP and MSI packages.

Please use the MySQL Bugs website to report any problem.

Some useful links:

• Documentation: …