Oh yes, 2012 was an incredible year for the MySQL Community!
That’s why I would like to change the rules this year and I would like to offer you a new survey for this [Plus] reader’s choice 2012.

Community users, bloggers and events made the whole community last year, tell us how you used this community?
It will only take 5 minutes of your precious time, votes will be closed Jan. 31.

Vote for what you used! (with your heart, again…)

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The SkySQL and MariaDB Roadshow Comes to Germany:

Stuttgart 25 January 2013, 9.00-16.00, Sodexo STEP / Engineering Park

Hamburg 1 February 2013, 9.00-16.00, Quality Ambassador Hotel

SkySQL and Monty Program are on the road with our first joint – free – roadshows in Stuttgart and Hamburg, where Monty Widenius will unveil his vision of the future of the MySQL database via MariaDB (the talk will be in English).

In addition, speakers from Codership / Galera expected, as well SkySQL experts and customer speakers.

The latest trends around the MySQL and MariaDB databases will be discussed, in cloud and high …

I think MariaDB has had a great few weeks recently and the timeline of these events are important.

1. 27 November 2012 – WiredTree Adds MariaDB for Faster MySQL Database Performance (well worth reading their motivations to switch)
2. 29 November 2012 – Monty Program & SkySQL release the MariaDB Client Library for C & Java
3. 4 December 2012 – MariaDB Foundation is announced, see ZDNet coverage.
4. mid-December 2012 – Wikimedia Foundation starts migrating …

She hired the 400+ original MySQLers … and sets out to hire the SkySQLers of tomorrow! Boel Larsen blogs about open positions & life at SkySQL - and wants you to join the fun!

Those of you who know me also know that I spent over six years working for MySQL HR (for another couple of years I stayed on with Sun).  I joined as employee thirty-something, so running HR meant that I was more or less involved with hiring all of the 400 or so employees who joined after me. I knew pretty much everyone by name.

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Die MySQL & MariaDB Datenbank Roadshow kommt nach Deutschland: - Stuttgart 25. Januar 2013, 9.00-16.00 Uhr, Sodexo STEP/Engineering Park
- Hamburg 1. Februar 2013, 9.00-16.00 Uhr, Quality Ambassador Hotel

Ab Januar 2013 sind SkySQL und Monty Program unterwegs mit unseren ersten gemeinsamen - kostenfreien - Roadshows in Deutschland: In Stuttgart und Hamburg wird Monty Widenius seine Zukunfts-Vision der MySQL-Datenbank via MariaDB vorstellen (Vortrag in Englisch). Zudem werden Sprecher von Codership/Galera erwartet sowie SkySQL Kunden-Berichte.

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What is the value of a seed? 
When I discussed the MariaDB Foundation with friends and colleagues, many said I was exaggerating. My believe is that the Foundation is important for MySQL and for the future of the IT industry - services and applications. Many agreed with me that the Foundation is important for the MySQL ecosystem, but involving the global economy and the whole IT industry is a bit of a stretch.

Fact is, the World Wide Web would not be as it is today without MySQL. MySQL was part of the LAMP stack. It powered - and still powers - some of the most successful web sites in the world. Without LAMP, companies like Facebook, Twitter or Google would have been developed in a completely different way or they would have not been developed at all.

The importance of MySQL for the Internet is pretty clear for many of us. What is perhaps less clear is what is the current situation of MySQL and the …

LGPL release of MariaDB connectors opens up new possibilities for application developers

As I said last month, SkySQL has the goal of being THE provider of valuable, performance-enhancing and revenue-generating solutions for the 15 million users of open source MySQL and MariaDB databases in enterprise and cloud computing. 

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SkySQL is looking for a great Support Engineer to join our Team and work the APAC shift. This means you do not need to reside in APAC, but just want to work those hours.

If interested, there is a full description of the position here:

http://www.skysql.com/company/careers/skysql-support-engineer-apac

And as the post says, if you are interested, please send your resume/CV to careers@skysql.com.

Also, if you’d like, please feel free to ping me as well [chris at skysql dot com] and I can try to get your resume looked at with a higher priority (and feel free to ask me any questions too).

Happy Holidays!

2nd release of SkySQL™ Cloud Data Suite provides users with customisation capabilities for free cloud database deployments Update release: SkySQL™ Cloud Data Suite

SkySQL™ Cloud Data Suite is a collection of software components that provides a highly available database solution in a cloud environment based on MariaDB and 100% compatible with the MySQL database. It includes the following features:

• An automatic configurator
• An administrative console with ...
  • A graphical backup and recovery manager
  • The ability to deploy each instance securely within the user’s environment
  • Feature-rich, web-based query tools
  • An advanced monitoring tool
• A full set of HA solutions (synchronous and asynchronous)

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Connectors now available to the MySQL®community as part of the MariaDB open source project

So ... We (Monty Program & SkySQL) have just announced the immediate availability of the connectors, ‘MariaDB Client Library for C and MariaDB Client Library for Java Applications’, to the wider MySQL® database community in the permissive LGPL licence.

With this announcement, the connectors become part of the wider MariaDB open source project, to which users will be able to contribute via relevant online resources.

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