PerconaLive 2014 program is published

After a few months of submissions and reviews, the program for PerconaLive MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 is published. The conference will be held in Santa Clara, from April 1 to 4, 2014.

Registration with early bird discount is available until February 2nd. If you plan to attend, this is probably the best time to act.

I will be presenting twice at the conference:

• MySQL Replication: Advanced features in all flavors it’s a 3 hours tutorial where I compare the …

I have put up a set of scripts on github: https://github.com/stewartsmith/bzr-to-git-conversion-scripts. Why do I need these? Well… if only bzr fast-export|git fast-import worked flawlessly for large, complex and old trees. It doesn’t.

Basically, when you clone this repo you can run “./sync-BLAH.sh” and it’ll pull BZR trees for the project, convert to git and clean things up a bit. You will likely have to edit the sync-BLAH.sh scripts as I have them pointed at branches on my own machine (to speed up the process, not having to do fresh BZR branches of MySQL trees over the network is a feature - it’s never been fast.). You’ll also want to edit the git remotes to point where you want git trees to end up.

I’ve done it for:

• Bazaar …

On last Wednesday morning I gave my talk at linux.conf.au 2014. You can now view and download the recording of it here:

http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2014/Wednesday/28-Past_Present_and_future_of_MySQL_and_variants_-_Stewart_Smith.mp4

(hopefully more free formats will come soon, the all volunteer AV team has been absolutely amazing getting things up this quickly).

Many users are challenged with how to setup multi-master, multi-site MySQL clusters. How to do you go from a single database server to a scalable cluster? Or move from a brittle MySQL replication system to a transparent, manageable database cluster? In this joint webinar with Continuent, Percona examines how Continuent Tungsten addresses these problems. 

First, we discuss the read-write

Use your MySQL expertise to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of MongoDB.

SPEAKER: Tim Callaghan, VP of Engineering at Tokutek
DATE: Tuesday, December 17th
TIME: 1pm ET
Register Now!

MongoDB is a popular NoSQL DBMS that shares the ease-of-use and quick setup that made MySQL famous. But is MongoDB really up to the job? Is it right for your applications? If you understand MySQL well, you know how database systems work.

Join Tim Callaghan, VP/Engineering at Tokutek as he recaps his and CEO of Continuent, Robert Hodges, session from 2013′s Percona Live London. Learn how to lean on your knowledge of topics like schema design, query optimization, indexing, sharding, and high availability to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of MongoDB. System design is all …

I was pleased to see Morgan’s announcement about a fix to an old problem of mine. In March 2012 I complained about MySQL verbosity during installation.

In MySQL 5.7.3, this behavior was changed. While the default is still as loud as it can, you can now add an option (log_error_verbosity) to send only errors to STDERR, which allows you to hide the output of mysql_install_db, and still get the errors, if they occur.

Well done!

However, the same obnoxious verbosity is also in MariaDB 10.0.x. Since I discussed this specific bug with a few MariaDB developers early in 2012, I was disappointed to see this same output when running mysql_install_db with MariaDB. Here’s the same appeal: MariaDB …

The call for participation at Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2014 is now closed. There have been more than 320 submissions, and this will keep the review committee busy for a while.

One important point for everyone who has submitted: if you have submitted a proposal but haven’t included a bio in your account, do it now. If you don’t, your chances of being taken seriously are greatly reduced. To add a bio, go to your account page and fill in the Biography field. Including a picture is not mandatory, but it will be definitely appreciated.

Although the CfP is closed for tutorials and regular sessions, your chances of becoming a celebrity are not over yet. The CfP is still …

You may think that you already know what's the opposite of "DISABLED", but with MySQL Event Scheduler you'll be wrong.

In fact MySQL Event Scheduler may have three different states[1][2]:

DISABLED -  The Event Scheduler thread does not run [1]. In addition, the Event Scheduler state cannot be changed at runtime.
OFF (default) - The Event Scheduler thread does not run [1]. When the Event Scheduler is OFF it can be started by setting the value of event_scheduler to ON.
ON - The Event Scheduler is started; the event scheduler thread runs and executes all scheduled events.

So if you're going to find it in the DISABLED state and instinctively set it to ENABLED you'll end up with a non-starting MySQL daemon.
Be warned and stay safe out there!

[1]: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/events-configuration.html
[2]: When the Event Scheduler is not running does not appear …

Join 15,000 others and follow Sean Hull on twitter @hullsean. 1. MySQL does not compete with Oracle It’s a myth that MySQL somehow poses a threat to Oracle. Oracle’s customers tend to be large enterprises running apps like e-business suite. These are certified to run on Oracle, and further they sit close to finance. MySQL […]

November 19, 2013 By Severalnines

The Severalnines team is pleased to announce the release of ClusterControl 1.2.4. This release contains key new features along with performance improvements and bug fixes.

We have outlined some of the key features below. For additional details about the release:

• 1.2.4 ChangeLog
• Documentation
• Upgrade instructions
  • Manual upgrade instructions
  • …