Percona University Online has released a new free course, “MySQL 5.7 End of Life Options – Free Course at Percona University Online,” by Dave Stokes, Technical Evangelist at Percona. 

Dave is the author of MySQL & JSON – A Practical Programming Guide. He started to work with MySQL from the 3.29 version and was a part of the MySQL Community Team for over a decade.

MySQL 5.7 reaches its End of Life in October 2023. The Era of MySQL 5.x will be over, and only MySQL 8.0 will be officially supported. Learn how to keep your database secure and performant after that date and what real options you have if you decide to upgrade or stay on the current version. 

This course consists of eight short videos. Pass a brief quiz on Google Classroom afterward to receive a Certificate of Completion from Percona. The …

We started hosting Percona University a few years back with the aim of sharing knowledge with the open source database community. The events are held in cities across the world. The next Percona University days will visiting Uruguay, Argentina, and Brazil, in a lightning tour at the end of April.

• Montevideo, Tuesday, April 23 2019 from 8.30am to 6.30pm
• Buenos Aires, Thursday, April 25 2019 from 1.30pm to 10.3pm
• São Paulo, Saturday, April 27 2019 from 9.30am to 7.30pm

What is Percona University?

It is a technical …

Peter Zaitsev at last year’s Percona University event in Montevideo

Later this week I’m excited to depart on a trip to South America. First I will stop in Montevideo, Uruguay, to meet with Percona’s team out there as well as to participate in our next Percona University event on April 29.

For those who do not know, Percona University events are free to attend and packed with technical presentations about MySQL and surrounding technologies, delivered by members of the Percona team and community speakers. Even though attendance is free, because space is limited you will need to …

Now with summer winding down and school back in session, we get into a very busy time with many great opportunities to discover more about MySQL with several excellent MySQL events.

At first I wanted to cover all autumn events here but if I did that this post would be far too long. So instead I’m focusing on a few wonderful MySQL events that I’m going to be involved with in September.

In a few short days we’re running Percona University at Washington, D.C. This free event on September 12 provides a great opportunity to learn about latest developments in the MySQL ecosystem as we at Percona see it. I personally will be speaking about …

Following our events earlier this year in Raleigh, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Toronto and Portland, we bring Percona University to …