Free MySQL learning Part II from Oracle University

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Patrick Hurley will be delivering a webinar entitled “MySQL: The Least an Oracle Professional Needs to Know” tomorrow at 12.00 pm EST for the ODTUG (Oracle Development Tools User Group).

I met Patrick a few months ago at an Oracle User Group seminar where he delivered his presentation, and I recommend it to Oracle DBAs who would like to get going with MySQL.

Here is the abstract:

“This talk is an introduction to the MySQL database, particularly for Oracle professionals. Patrick will give an overview of its architecture and concepts. He will describe and demonstrate many MySQL administrative tasks, including installation, database creation, backup, and recovery. Patrick will finish by showing how relatively easy it is to set up replication between two MySQL databases.”

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Patrick Hurley will be delivering a webinar entitled “MySQL: The Least an Oracle Professional Needs to Know” tomorrow at 12.00 pm EST for the ODTUG (Oracle Development Tools User Group).

I met Patrick a few months ago at an Oracle User Group seminar where he delivered his presentation, and I recommend it to Oracle DBAs who would like to get going with MySQL.

Here is the abstract:

“This talk is an introduction to the MySQL database, particularly for Oracle professionals. Patrick will give an overview of its architecture and concepts. He will describe and demonstrate many MySQL administrative tasks, including installation, database creation, backup, and recovery. Patrick will finish by showing how relatively easy it is to set up replication between two MySQL databases.”

Register Now!

Isn’t that that time of the year again? Yes, it is — it’s time for our annual Oracle Bloggers Meetup and of course Oracle is piggybacking OpenWorld with the meetup again! ;) What: Oracle Bloggers Meetup 2011 When: Wed, 5-Oct-2011, 5:00pm Where: Main Dining Room, Jillian’s Billiards @ Metreon, 101 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA [...]

We sent out this week the September special edition of the MySQL newsletter, which is focused on Oracle OpenWorld.

If you haven’t received it yet or do not subscribe, you can see it here.

This year we have a very impressive lineup of MySQL activities at OpenWorld, including:

• 14 MySQL sessions put together by the IOUG/MySQL Community on Sunday
• 31 MySQL sessions in the main database track
• 3 Demo Pods
• 1 Hands-on Labs
• Last but not least, the MySQL Community Reception on Tuesday at 7.00 pm at the Marriott Marquis! Wei-Chen blogged about it a couple of days ago and we hope to see you there if you’re attending OpenWorld or if you’re local.

You …

We sent out this week the September special edition of the MySQL newsletter, which is focused on Oracle OpenWorld.

If you haven’t received it yet or do not subscribe, you can see it here.

This year we have a very impressive lineup of MySQL activities at OpenWorld, including:

• 14 MySQL sessions put together by the IOUG/MySQL Community on Sunday
• 31 MySQL sessions in the main database track
• 3 Demo Pods
• 1 Hands-on Labs
• Last but not least, the MySQL Community Reception on Tuesday at 7.00 pm at the Marriott Marquis! Wei-Chen blogged about it a couple of days ago and we hope to see you there if you’re attending OpenWorld or if you’re local.

You …

Oracle users across the globe keep searching for easier ways to accomplish time consuming tasks, or keep searching for the solutions of errors and issues and then often land on valuable blog posts. In quest for this Log Buffer Edition, we also landed upon some chic blog posts across database technologies and hence this Log [...]

Often I think about challenges that organizations face with “Big Data”.  While Big Data is a generic and over used term, what I am really referring to is an organizations ability to disseminate, understand and ultimately benefit from increasing volumes of data.  It is almost without question that in the future customers will be won/lost, competitive advantage will be gained/forfeited and businesses will succeed/fail based on their ability to leverage their data assets.

It may be surprising what I think are the near term challenges.  Largely I don’t think these are purely technical.  There are enough wheels in motion now to almost guarantee that data accessibility will continue to improve at pace in-line with the increase in data volume.  Sure, there will continue to be lots of interesting innovation with technology, but when organizations like …

As Giuseppe Maxia recently posted we released Tungsten Replicator 2.0.4 this week.  It has a raft of bug fixes and new features of which one-line installations are the single biggest improvement.  I set up replicators dozens of times a day and having a single command for standard cluster topologies is a huge step forward.  Kudos to Jeff Mace for getting this nailed down.

So what's next?  You can get see what we are up to in general by looking at our issues list.  We cannot do everything at once, but here are the current priorities for Tungsten Replicator 2.0.5.

• Parallel replication speed and robustness. …

If you missed the MySQL Community Reception in Santa Clara in April, here is another opportunity to mingle and have fun!

Come celebrate the growth of the MySQL community with Oracle's MySQL team in San Francisco, CA on October 4, Tuesday. Although the event is held in conjunction with Oracle OpenWorld, no conference registration is required; everyone is invited to the MySQL Community Reception. If you're attending the sessions in the MySQL Track at Oracle OpenWorld, the reception is conveniently located in Marriott Marquis where all the MySQL sessions will be held, so you definitely shouldn't miss …