The second edition of MySQL Connect took place just a few days ago, Sept 21-23, and was a great event. Thank you very much to all participants including speakers, sponsors, exhibitors and attendees! We hope you had a fantastic time and learned a lot.

The keynotes are now available for you to watch on demand (both highlights and full length), including:

The State of the Dolphin
Edward Screven, Chief Corporate Architect, Oracle
Tomas Ulin, Vice President of MySQL Engineering, Oracle

MySQL at Facebook
Harrison Fisk, Manager, Data Performance, Facebook

Current MySQL Usage Models and Future Developments
Featuring panelists from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and PayPal

We had exciting news at the conference, namely the second Development Milestone Release of MySQL 5.7, along with new early access features, as well as the General Availability of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 3.0.

A number of blogs have been posted about what's new in MySQL 5.7. They are aggregated on Planet MySQL and include:

• MySQL Performance: reaching 500K QPS with MySQL 5.7
• InnoDB 5.7 performance improvements
• MySQL 5.7.2 DMR and Labs – new replication features
• MySQL 5.7: Introducing the Performance Schema tables to monitor Replication
• A Brief Introduction to MySQL Fabric
• MySQL Fabric - Sharding - Introduction
• Feature Preview: MySQL Multi Source Replication

If you watch the State of the Dolphin keynote you will see a demo of the new MySQL Enterprise Monitor by Mark Leith. You can also see short demos here, and we encourage you to join our webinar on October 3 to learn more.

Thank you all for making MySQL Connect a success!