We are happy to announce that this Thursday, November 15 at 7:00 p.m., there will be a MySQL meetup in Madrid, Spain. Please find more details below:  

• Date: Nov 15, 2018
• Time: 7:00-9:00pm
• Place: booking.com @ Torre Europa Paseo de la Castellana 95, Planta 11 · Madrid
• Agenda:
  • Morgan Tocker: "TiDB: Distributed, horizontally scalable, MySQL compatible”
  • Simon Mudd: "Vitess and MySQL Cluster" More information & registration can be found on the Meetup website: https://www.meetup.com/Madrid-MySQL-users-group/events/255291731/  

Do not forget to register on the page if you are coming.

We are happy to announce that there will be a MySQL Day/MySQL Community Meetup hold in Oracle Buliding in Vienna on November 8th. Please find more details below:

• Date: Thursday, November 8th, 2018 
• Time: 7pm - 9pm
• Address: Oracle Office DC Tower 1, Donau-City-Straße 7, 1220 Wien, Österreich
• Meeting room: will be confirmed soon. 
• Agenda: 
  • "Oracle MySQL 8 - The next big thing!" by Carsten Thalheimer the Master Principal Sales Consultant 
  • Discussion & pizza 
• More information & Registration

as announced in the blog posted on Oct 18, 2018 we would like to just remind you about places and shows where you can find us this really busy week... We are ready for following shows:

• PerconaLive in Frankfurt, Germany on November 5-7, 2018

  • as previously announced there are plenty of our MySQL experts, our friends from sales & Fred Descamps representing MySQL community at PerconaLive, Frankfurt which started today. Right now Fred Descamps & Kenny Grip are having a tutorial on "MySQL InnoDB Cluster in a Nutshell : The Saga Continues with …

As announced in on October 18, we are ready for being part of following shows this week. Please come to find MySQL staff there and talk to us about MySQL.

• Madison PHP, Madison, US, November 2-3, 2018: We are Community sponsor. 
• MOPCON 2018, Taipei, Taiwan, November 3-4, 2018: Do not forget to attend our sponsored MySQL talk given by Ivan Tu, the MySQL Principal Consultant Manger. Ivan will be talking about "The Mobile application supported by new generation MySQL 8.0" (scheduled for Nov 4, at 11:05-11:45am in Big Data track). Ivan will be available before and after the talk to answer your questions about MySQL. Please do not miss Ivan's talk and the …

Please join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles on Wednesday, August 29th, 2018, as he presents Databases in the Hosted Cloud at 7:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 10:00 AM EDT (UTC-4).

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Nearly everyone today uses some form of database in the hosted cloud. You can use hosted MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server, and PostgreSQL in several cloud providers as a database as a service (DBaaS).

In this webinar, Colin Charles explores how to efficiently deploy a cloud database configured for optimal performance, with a particular focus on MySQL.

You’ll learn the differences between the various public cloud offerings for Amazon RDS including Aurora, Google Cloud SQL, Rackspace OpenStack …

We are happy to announce that MySQL got an opportunity to be part of the Oracle Developer Community LAD Tour 2018 on the last minute notice. The event is hold on Aug 24 @ Mexico City, Mexico you will can - among other interesting talks - also to find a MySQL talk given by the local Sales Consultant, Manuel Contreras. Manuel will be talking about “MySQL 8.0”.

We are looking forward to seeing & talking to you there!

Recently, we initiated a new project, the Open Source Database Community Blog. One way to think of this is as an online, year round version of the Percona Live conferences. If you have a story to tell, an experience to share, or a lesson to be learned send it along. As long as it’s related to open source database software, their management and application. That’s right. Not just Percona software. Any open source database software of all formats.

Unlike Percona Live, though, we are not limited by time or space. All submissions are welcome as long as they follow some simple guidelines.

We have already had some excellent posts, and in case this is news to you, here’s a recap:

• Renato Losio wrote this succinct how-to article …

Please join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles as he presents as he presents MariaDB 10.3 vs. MySQL 8.0 on Wednesday, July 18th, 2018, at 9:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 12:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).

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Technical considerations

Are they syntactically similar? Where do these two databases differ? Why would I use one over the other?

MariaDB 10.3 is on the path of gradually diverging from MySQL 8.0. One obvious example is the internal data dictionary currently under development for MySQL 8.0. This is a major change to the way metadata is stored and used within the server, and MariaDB doesn’t have an equivalent feature. Implementing this feature could mark the end of datafile-level compatibility between …

Oracle has done a great technical work with MySQL. Specifically a nice job has been done around security. There is one useful feature that exists in Oracle MySQL and that currently does not exist in MariaDB. Oracle MySQL offers the possibility from within the server to generate asymetric key pairs. It is then possible use ...continue reading "Porting this Oracle MySQL feature to MariaDB would be great ;-)"

To quote book of all knowledge:

In cryptography, a brute-force attack consists of an attacker trying many
passwords or passphrases with the hope of eventually guessing correctly.
The attacker systematically checks all possible passwords and passphrases
until the correct one is found.

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