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 …

FOSDEM 2013

The Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software.

I attended for the first time over the weekend and was really impressed by the number of people there, the energy and the quality of the content. The event really lives up to it’s name and is very developer-focused.

In the end, I got the opportunity to make 2 presentations. The first is a general introduction to MySQL Cluster….

The second illustrates how you can realise the benefits promised by NoSQL data stores wihtout losing the consistency and flexibility of relational databases…

FOSDEM 2013

The Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of Free and Open Source software. As in previous years, there is a dedicated stream of MySQL Sessions. On Saturday (2nd Feb) evening there’s a MySQL community dinner and then we’ve a packed program from 9:15 through 17:30 on Sunday (3rd Feb).

FOSDEM 2013 is a free event and there’s no requirement to pre-register – just get yourself along to Brussels.

This year I’ll be making a presentation introducing MySQL Cluster. Several of my colleagues from …

MySQL Cluster Manager 1.2.2 is now available to download from E-delivery and from My Oracle Support .

Details on the changes can be found in the MySQL Cluster Manager documentation . Please give it a try and let me know what you think.

Documentation is available here.

This is a response to a blog postby analyst and marketing consultant Curt Monash.

Originally virtualization meant running one operating system in a window inside of another operating system, e.g. running a Linux on a Windows machine using Microsoft Virtual PC or VMWare. Then virtualization evolved to mean slicing a single server into many for more granular resource allocation (Curt’s ex uno plures, translated: out of one, many). It has since expanded to include e pluribus unum (from many, one) and e pluribus ad pluribus (from many to many). This is evidenced in the use of the term “virtualization” to create the compound words: server virtualization, storage virtualization, network virtualization and now database virtualization.

Server Virtualization: Abstracts the physical …

This is a response to a blog postby analyst and marketing consultant Curt Monash.

Originally virtualization meant running one operating system in a window inside of another operating system, e.g. running a Linux on a Windows machine using Microsoft Virtual PC or VMWare. Then virtualization evolved to mean slicing a single server into many for more granular resource allocation (Curt’s ex uno plures, translated: out of one, many). It has since expanded to include e pluribus unum (from many, one) and e pluribus ad pluribus (from many to many). This is evidenced in the use of the term “virtualization” to create the compound words: server virtualization, storage virtualization, network virtualization and now database virtualization.

Server Virtualization: Abstracts the physical (servers), presenting it as a …

The binary version for MySQL Cluster 7.2.10 has now been made available at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/ (GPL version) or https://support.oracle.com/ (commercial version).

A description of all of the changes (fixes) that have gone into MySQL Cluster 7.2.10 (compared to 7.2.9) is available from the 7.2.10 Change log.

It's the end of the year and, before the world ends ;-) , I feel the pressure to follow up on last year's article "2011, a great year for MySQL in Review". I'll adopt a similar format and mention things in context, covering products, marketing, momentum, etc. at a high level. I may have missed something and I hope my colleagues will contribute to the list.

I really do think it's been the best year for MySQL so far... well, at least since when I signed my contract with MySQL AB at the end of 2007. We're just at the beginning of our journey and I wish to the MySQL family, to our community and ecosystem an even better 2013!

Summary
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Oracle have just announced that MySQL Cluster Manager 1.2 is Generally Available. For anyone not familiar with MySQL Cluster Manager – it’s a command-line management tool that makes it simpler and safer to manage your MySQL Cluster deployment – use it to create, configure, start, stop, upgrade…. your cluster.

So what has changed since MCM 1.1 was released?

The first thing is that a lot of work has happened under the covers and it’s now faster, more robust and can manage larger clusters. Feature-wise you get the following (note that a couple of these were released early as part of post-GA versions of MCM 1.1):

• Automation of on-line backup and restore
• Single command to start MCM and a single-host Cluster …

The binary version for MySQL Cluster 7.2.9 has now been made available at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/ (GPL version) or https://support.oracle.com/ (commercial version).

A description of all of the changes (fixes) that have gone into MySQL Cluster 7.2.9 (compared to 7.2.8) is available from the 7.2.9 Change log.