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 …

It was all aboard the Lone Star river boat for the 100 delegates who joined our Community Dinner. Loading took quite some time, Tom Basil attended to the guest list, and then the necessary signatures for those aboard. I’d woken at 6am to a less than favorable forecast, but the weather was kind to us, with blue sky and a gentle breeze.

My colleague and local Austin resident Rick Vasquez had on Tuesday treated me to my first visit to a US liquor store, Specs. This store was bigger than the largest store in my hometown but sold only alcohol-related products and drink-friendly snacks. An experience in itself! We stuck to the brief of Texas-only brew for our guests.

As people boarded they received their swag – PlanetScale and Percona branded steel enamel mugs – and bar and dinner queues formed. The lines moved relatively quickly for the fajita and tex mex themed buffet. …

It’s that time of year again, and we’ve just had the presentations of the MySQL Community Awards at Percona Live. A more fulsome blog post will be written for the Community Blog in the next few days about the worthy winners. Meanwhile, though, here’s a summary.

Committee Co-Secretaries Emily Slocombe of Square, and Agustin Gallego of Percona presented these annual community nominated awards today. In four categories, the awards went to:

• Community Contributor of the Year: Weixiang Zhai
• Community Contributor of the Year: Valerii Kravchuk

Both of these awards were made for bug identification and submission. Valerii was represented by Vicențiu Ciorbaru of MariaDB Foundation who accepted the award on his behalf.

• The Application of the Year award was mad to Dbdeployer, for its incredible usefulness to the …

Feeling the FOMO? Now you don’t have to! With the Percona Live Open Source Database Conference 2019 Live Stream, you’ll practically be there in person, living the experience to the fullest. Our keynote stage features morning and lunchtime keynotes on Wednesday, May 29th and morning keynotes on Thursday, May 30th. Join us at home or on the go, from any corner of the world!

Percona is streaming the keynotes on Wednesday, May 29, 2019, at 9 AM CDT, Wednesday, May 29, 2019, at 1:25 PM CDT, and Thursday, May 30, 2019, at 9 AM, beginning at 9 AM CDT.

Keynote speakers include Continuent, VividCortex, AWS, Facebook, MariaDB Foundation, and many more. The keynote panel will feature topics such as the changing face of Open Source.

The list of keynote talks and speakers for each day is as follows:

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