Want to learn or refresh yourself on MySQL? MySQL Marinate is the FREE virtual self-study group is for you!

MySQL Marinate quick links if you know what it is all about.

This is for beginners – If you have no experience with MySQL, or if you are a developer that wants to learn how to administer MySQL, or an administrator that wants to learn how to query MySQL, this course is what you want. If you are not a beginner, you will likely still learn some nuances, and it will be easy and fast to do. If you have absolutely zero experience with MySQL, this is perfect for you. The first few chapters walk you through getting and installing MySQL, so all you need is a computer and the book.

The format of a virtual self-study group is as follows:
Each participant acquires the same textbook ( …

This week we talk to Justin Swanhart about Shard-Query, a massively parallel processing query engine for MySQL. Ear candy is about mydumper, and At the Movies is "Common Deadly MySQL Development Mistakes."

Events
Percona Live
DB Hangops - every other Wednesay at noon Pacific time
Upcoming MySQL events

Training
SkySQL Trainings

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This week, we talk with Ivan Zoratti of SkySQL about MaxScale, a new MySQL proxy. Ear Candy is about accidentally removing a dependent package, and At the Movies is a DB Hangops recording of MaxScale, replication saturation and monitoring.

Events
DB Hangops - every other Wednesay at noon Pacific time
Upcoming MySQL events, including Tech Tours

Training
SkySQL Trainings
Tungsten University trainings

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This week we discuss fine-tuning Galera Cluster. In this week's ear candy we talk about recent changes to mysqldump and locking; At the Movies presents "Using Amazon Web Services for MySQL at Scale".

Events
DB Hangops - every other Wednesay at noon Pacific time
FOSDEM 2014 - Sat February 1 - Sun February 2 in Brussels, Belgium.
Upcoming MySQL events

Training
SkySQL Trainings

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This week we talk about how to install and set up Galera Cluster. Ear Candy talks about the new MySQL repos from Oracle and what to know about using them; At the Movies is Michael Stonebreaker talking about how to process today's big data transactional processing needs.

Galera Cluster
Codership documentation of Galera Cluster
Installing Percona XtraDB Cluster on Ubuntu documentation
MariaDB's Galera Cluster documentation

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This week we finish up talking about the Openark Kit for MySQL. Ear Candy is using both --master-data and --tab with mysqldump, and At the Movies features Robert Hodges of Continuent presenting Scalable MySQL Operation in the Cloud with Continuent Tungsten.

Openark Kit series:
Part 1
Part 2

Openark Kit
oak-purge-master-logs
PURGE BINARY LOGS at the MySQL manual page.

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This week we discuss the basics of using the performance schema in MySQL 5.5 and 5.6. Ear Candy is about a temporal gotcha when using dates and times that do not exist, and At the Movies is David Stokes giving some useful for System Administrators who also are in a DBA role.

News
Continuent's Tungsten Replicator is now completely open source
TokuDB is now open source

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This week we discuss Tungsten and MySQL 5.6 replication with friend of the show, Giuseppe Maxia (aka the Data Charmer). Ear Candy is MariaDB's Cassandra storage engine, and At the Movies is Giuseppe's "MySQL 5.6 Replication – features and usability" video from Open Database Camp.

Events
DB Hangops in May will be Wed May 8th and 22nd.
Upcoming MySQL tech tours

Training
SkySQL Trainings
Tungsten University trainings

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We discuss INFORMATION_SCHEMA with plenty of examples on useful queries. In this week's Ear Candy, we talk about resident versus virtual memory on Linux, and in At the Movies has a video about MongoDB.

Events
DB Hangops in May will be Wed May 8th and 22nd noon pacific time.
Upcoming MySQL tech tours

Training
SkySQL Trainings
Tungsten University trainings

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This week, we explain the InnoDB and Memcached integration in MySQL 5.6. Ear Candy is about the nonexistent 2-step deadlock detection in MariaDB and At the Movies is Colin Charles talking about the features of MariaDB 10.

InnoDB and memcached in MySQL 5.6
memcached official page
InnoDB integration with memcached MySQL manual page
History of the term NoSQL
setting up the InnoDB memcached plugin in MySQL 5.6

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