Hello, open source database enthusiasts at Percona Live Europe 2018! There is a lot to see and do today, and we’ve got some of the highlights listed below.

On Facebook? Go here for some pics that captured the action on Percona Live Europe 2018 Tutorials day (Monday, Nov. 5, 2018). 

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It’s almost here! One week until the Percona Live Europe Open Source Database Conference 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany! Are you ready?

This year’s theme is “Connect. Accelerate. Innovate.” We want to live these words by making sure that the conference allows you to connect with others in the open source community, accelerate your ideas and solutions and innovate when you get back to your projects and companies.

• There is one day of tutorials (Monday) and two days of sessions (Tuesday and Wednesday). We have multiple tracks: MySQL 8.0, Using MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, …

There’s just over one week to go so it’s time to announce the keynote addresses for Percona Live Europe 2018! We’re excited to share our lineup of conference keynotes, featuring talks from Paddy Power Betfair, Amazon Web Services, Facebook, PingCap and more!

The speakers will address the current status of key open source database projects MySQL®, PostgreSQL, MongoDB®, and MariaDB®. They’ll be sharing with you how organizations are shifting from a single use database to a …

Without our sponsors, it would be almost out of reach to deliver a conference of the size and format  that everyone has come to expect from Percona Live. As well as financial support, our sponsors contribute massively by supporting their teams in presenting at the conference, and adding to the quality and atmosphere of the event. Having their support means we can present excellent in-depth technical content for the tutorials and talks, and that’s highly valued by conference delegates. This year, too, Amazon Web Services (AWS) sponsors the cloud track on day two, with a superb line up of cloud content.

Here’s a shout out to our sponsors, you’ll find more information on the Percona Live sponsors page:

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For those who are looking forward to Percona Live Europe in just two weeks time—and for those yet to make up their minds—some of our presenters have shared some insight into their talks and what they’re most looking forward to themselves. Make no mistake, this is one of the most exciting events in the conference calendar for those of us who work with open source databases.

This year, our conference previews are being hosted over on the Percona community blog and the posts have been written by the presenters.

Percona Live Europe presents…

Here are the first six posts in this series of Percona Live Europe presents. There are more to come, so do come back over the next few days to see if any of the writers can help you pinpoint the talks that you are most …

After much speculation following the announcement in Santa Clara earlier this year, we are delighted to announce Percona Live 2019 will be taking place in Austin, Texas.

Save the dates in your diary for May, 28-30 2019!

The conference will take place just after Memorial Day at The Hyatt Regency, Austin on the shores of Lady Bird Lake.

This is also an ideal central location for those who wish to extend their stay and explore what Austin has to offer! Call for papers, ticket sales and sponsorship opportunities will be announced soon, so stay tuned!

In other Percona Live news, we’re less than 4 weeks away from this year’s European conference taking place in Frankfurt, Germany on 5-7 November. The tutorials and breakout sessions have been announced, and you can view the full schedule  …

Offering over 110 conference sessions across Tuesday, 6 and Wednesday, 7 November, and a full tutorial day on Monday 5 November, we hope you’ll find that this fantastic line up of talks for Percona Live Europe 2018 to be one of our best yet! Innovation in technology continues to arrive at an accelerated rate, and you’ll find plenty to help you connect with the latest developments in open source database technologies at this acclaimed annual event.

Representatives from companies at the leading edge of our industry use the platform offered by Percona Live to showcase their latest developments and share plans for the future. If your career is dependent upon the use of open source database technologies you should not miss this conference!

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Percona has revealed the line-up of in-depth tutorials for the Percona Live Europe 2018 Open Source Database Conference, taking place November 5–7, 2018 at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Frankfurt, Germany. Secure your spot now with Advanced Registration prices. Be sure to buy your tickets soon as tickets prices will only head up, not down! Sponsorship opportunities for the conference are still available.

Percona Live Europe 2018 Open Source Database Conference is the premier open source database event. Our theme this year is “Connect. Accelerate. Innovate.”  Percona Live is the …

Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community.

This week wraps up the London MySQL meetup, where there were four presentations, for the intimate yet diverse crowd. We saw representation from Oracle MySQL, MariaDB Corporation, Pythian, and Percona. Long-time organizer Ivan Zoratti has also handed off the baton to Maria Luisa Raviol, and going forward she will ensure meetups are at least once per quarter. It was a real pleasure to see MySQL Community Manager Dave Stokes at the event, too.

A new book to read: AWS System Administration: Best Practices for Sysadmins in the Amazon Cloud. There is coverage of RDS, from the standpoint of an example application stack as …

A colleague brought an article to my attention.  I did not see it on Planet MySQL where I get most of the MySQL news (or it did not catch my eye there).  As it is interesting replication stuff, I think it is important to bring it to the attention of the MySQL Community, so I am writing this short post.

The surprising part for me is that it uses my 4-year-old work for online migration to GTID