I just wanted to take a moment and say congratulations to all of the 2012 Community Contributor Award Winners!

The usual suspects, Baron, Sarah, Gerardo, and Sheeri, each won, and deservedly so. All 4 contribute a great deal to the MySQL Community and ecosystem, and it is very much appreciated.

However, I was especially happy to hear that James Day was also a winner (a name everyone might not be so familiar with). But, having worked with James for 5 years, I really couldn’t say it better than Henrik Ingo already did (in his initial post of this year’s winners), so let me quote him:

“James was nominated for ‘MySQL advocacy and swimming upstream to keep people informed about bugs and other issues.’ When looking into James’ activities in the community, the panel first didn’t find much evidence to support …

I am very pleased to say that earlier today, SkySQL announced it has raised $4 Million in Series A Round Funding.

Let me post the main part of the press release here:

SAN JOSE – April 18, 2012 – SkySQL, the first choice in affordable database solutions for the MySQL® and MariaDB® databases in the enterprise and the cloud, today announces that the company has raised $4 million in Series A funding from a number of investors, including OnCorps, an elite peer-based community of veteran technology investors and advisors committed to bringing better, cost-disruptive technologies into the mainstream. Also funding the round are European investors including Finnish Industry Investment Ltd., Spintop Ventures and Open Ocean Capital.

SkySQL will primarily use the investment to fund growth in its new product development, including adding critical positions. This is the …

Last week was full of exciting news for all things MySQL.

However, SkySQL also had some great individual news in that it announced 2 new partners:

• hastexo
• PalominoDB

I just wanted to take a moment and officially welcome both to the SkySQL fold!

PalominoDB and hastexo, it’s great to be partnered with you!

And we’re looking forward to all the exciting things the future has to hold!

For those interested, you can read more about each partnership here:

SkySQL & hastexo …

The SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database (the first of its kind) took place last Friday (April 13th) in Santa Clara, and we’d like to thank everyone who attended, participated and generally helped make it the successful day that it was!

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Well, as you or may not have heard, MariaDB 5.5 (5.5.23) was declared GA last week!

It was only about 6-ish weeks ago that MariaDB 5.5 had been released as alpha, so the fact it’s already GA is excellent news for all MariaDB users (and MySQL 5.5 users looking to migrate).

Some of the 5.5 enhancements include:

• Significantly more efficient thread pool, comparable in functionality to the closed source feature in MySQL Enterprise.
• Non-blocking client API Library (MWL#192)
• @@skip_replication option (MWL#234)
• SphinxSE updated to version 2.0.4.
• “extended keys” support for XtraDB and InnoDB
• New INSTALL SONAME statement
• New LIMIT ROWS EXAMINED optimization.
• mysql_real_connect() Changes
  In MySQL, and in MariaDB versions before 5.5.21, mysql_real_connect() …

The SkySQL booth ready for the stampede of visitors that stopped by each day.

We hope it was as productive and fun for all of you as it was for us at SkySQL! We started out the week at Percona Live, which was an excellent conference. Thanks to the Percona folks for making this a great get-together for the MySQL community. Excellent job, guys!

We welcomed two new partners, hastexo and PalominoDB, which means our customers will see even better MySQL service and support with SkySQL. And many of our current …

Join us, SkySQL and MariaDB for a day of free tutorials and consulting around the MySQL database and related technologies. Robert Hodges & Giuseppe Maxia will be talking about "Complex multi-master solutions made easy with Tungsten" at 1:00 pm!See you at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara!

We hope you all are having a productive and fun time at Percona Live! We at SkySQL sure are.

In fact, we have another announcement to make here at the show. We’re happy to share that our already excellent service and support will also include PalominoDB's operational excellence, 24x7 on-call support and access to PalominoDB’s skilled team of DBAs.

You can find more details on the partnership in the press release issued this morning.

Percona Live ends today, but stick around one more day and join us tomorrow for the SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database. A day full of free keynotes, tutorials and …

The second day of the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo is off to a great start! We’re excited here in Santa Clara to share the news that we’re teaming up with hastexo to further enhance expert high-availability knowledge for our professional services customers.

This means hastexo will assist in the development and improvement of Enterprise HA for MySQL® and MariaDB®, while customers of the product can tap into hastexo’s expertise and development of the Linux high availability stack for MariaDB and MySQL database support.

Teaming up with hastexo enables us to continue to deliver rock-solid high availability solutions for the MariaDB and MySQL databases. Just for you.

hastexo’s high availability expertise is accessible to SkySQL Enterprise HA customers today.

We will be onsite at the …

This is just an update to let you know that the new SkySQL Training Schedule is now available online.

The schedule extends as far as September 2012.

There are courses in the Belgium, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, and and the United States.

And some of the course titles include:

• Administering a MySQL® Database
• Developing Applications with the MySQL® Database
• Performance Tuning for the MySQL® Database
• High Availability for the MySQL® Database
• Administering MySQL® Cluster

You can read the full schedule here:

http://www.skysql.com/services/training/schedule?vdt=training_course_list|page_3