BE sure to attend the NOWG (Norwegian Oracle Users Group) conference (on a cruise ship) this April for presentations on Powerful EXPLAIN in MySQL 5.6 by Øystein Grovlen, What’s New in MySQL Server 5.6? by Geir Hoydalsvik, MySQL Query Optimizer: an overview by Jørgen Løland, and MySQL: An Introduction for Oracle DBAs also by by Øystein Grovlen.