Tokutek Technical Lead, Gerry Narvaja, among list of experts at free event hosted by SkySQL and MariaDB

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Database sharding, used by Facebook, Tumblr and Mozilla, is an incredibly powerful way to ensure MySQL systems scale-out and drive consistent, fast app performance to handle more users, more data, and more workloads. But home-grown sharding is hard, full of caveats, and very often ends up as non-cost effective.

    ScaleBase provides an easy to use platform [...] Read More

On Thursday, I will travel to Boston, MA, to attend the Northeast LinuxFest, which includes also an edition of the Open Database Camp. The events will be at one of my favorite places on earth: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a.k.a. the MIT. Every time I speak at an event there, I feel at home, and I look forward to be there once more.

The Open Database Camp is organized, as usual, with the formula of an un-conference, where the schedule is finalized on the spot.

There are a few ideas for sessions. I have proposed two of the topics I am most familiar with:

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Once again, Pythian is organizing an event that by now may be considered a tradition: the MySQL community dinner at Pedro’s! This dinner is open to all MySQL community members as many of you will be in town for the MySQL Conference that week.

Here are the details:

What: The MySQL community pay-your-own-way dinner
When: Tuesday April, 23 – Meet us at 6:30 pm in the lobby of the Hyatt Santa Clara, or at 7 pm at Pedro’s (You are welcome to show up later too!)
Where: Pedro’s Restaurant and Cantina – 3935 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054
How: Comment on this blog post to add your name to the list of probable attendees

Pedro’s can handle large groups of people, but we would like to have an …

The last MySQL User Group NL meeting was last Friday. It's always nice to learn about MySQL and meet other MySQL users. There were two presentations: one about MySQL User Defined Functions (UDF's) and one about MySQL TCO. The slides are available from the meetup page.

There are already a number of MySQL events announced for the next few months. I'll only list events in the Netherlands and Virtual events.

MySQL Virtual Developer Days
This is a virtual event which will take place on March 19 (EMEA region, NA event is on March 12). There are many interesting topics: Performance Schema, New 5.6 Features, Replication, MySQL Enterprise Monitor
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SkySQL and MariaDB roadshow
21 March 2013 in Amsterdam
This event  have …

Thousands of new online and mobile apps launch every day…but what happens when demand climbs and databases can’t keep up?

  Matt Aslett of 451 Research will discuss:

Scaling-out your MySQL databases New high availability strategies Centrally managing a distributed MySQL environment

Matt is the Research Director for Data Management and Analytics at 451 Research, covering operational and analytic databases, with a [...] Read More

FOSDEM 13 is now over, I am on my way home and I would like to share some thoughts sparkled by the intense atmosphere that I have lived in these two days in Brussels. I have to admit, I was tempted to skip FOSDEM this year: the last 3 weeks have been crazily busy and I travelled a lot, leaving my family alone for too long. But now I am glad I made the effort.  

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Oracle's MySQL team is running/participating to a number of events during the upcoming weeks and months. Don't miss this chance to learn about the latest developments straight from the source and to get all your questions answered!

Additional events will likely be scheduled down the road and posted on our events page, but you can already register for the following ones:

MySQL Tech Tour: Big Data and High Availability with MySQL– Pleasanton, California

January 22

MySQL Tech Tour: Big Data and High Availability with MySQL– Belmont, California

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This webinar will examine the benefits of Read-Write splitting. To register, click here.

There are thousands of new online and mobile apps launching every day…but what happens when demand climbs for these apps and databases can’t keep up?  The long-term success of any app hangs on a company’s ability to provide uninterrupted access and availability – translation: Database performance [...] Read More

Choosing a Next-Gen Database: The new world order of NoSQL, NewSQL & MySQL Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EST

The database market is becoming increasingly complex and is changing on an almost daily basis.  Matt Aslett is the Research Manager for Data Management and Analytics at 451 Research.  He has overall responsibility for the coverage [...] Read More