MySQL Lunch-n-Learn is not a new performance schema table or a new BLOB data type for Chef Gordon Ramsey. It is where a MySQL engineer comes to your office bringing lunch to talk about the most popular open source database. I was asked to participate in one this morning at a major company headquartered in Dallas. The company wanted some information on updates to the MySQL server, a comparison between InnoDB and MyISAM, and some company specific questions.

It is often hard to get new product news to our users and this program provides us with a way to answer specific questions. And the customer gets to select the agenda items to make certain they get what they need form this event.

So if you want to get the latest on MySQL 5.6, Memcahched-to-InnoDB, or replication strategies, use the link at the top of this entry to set up your …