Join Percona Support Engineer Vinicius Grippa as he presents his talk “Enhancing MySQL Security” on Thursday, July 25th, 2019 at 6:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 9:00 AM EDT (UTC-4).

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Security is always a challenge when its comes to data. Moreso, regulations like GDPR add a whole new layer on top of it, with rules more and more restrictive to access and manipulate data. Join us in this presentation to check security best practices as well as traditional and new features available for MySQL, including features coming with the new MySQL 8.

In this talk, DBAs and sysadmins will walk through the security features available on the OS and MySQL. These features include:

• SO security
• SSL
• ACL
• TDE
• Audit Plugin
• MySQL 8 features (undo, redo, and binlog …

Please join Percona’s Service Delivery Manager Rodrigo Trindade as he presents “Troubleshooting Java Connections to MySQL” on Thursday, July 18th, 2019 at 10:00 AM PDT (UTC-7).

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This talk will explain the steps needed to make a connection from Java to MySQL work and highlight potential issues you might encounter. It will cover all components, installation, and configuration.

If you can’t attend sign up anyways we’ll send you the slides and recording afterward.

Speaker: Rodrigo Trindade
Service Delivery Manager Rodrigo has a Master in Computer Science …

We’re pleased to share our webinar “Multi-Region AWS Aurora vs Continuent Tungsten for MySQL & MariaDB”, recorded live on Thursday, April 18th, 2019.

Our colleague Matt Lang walks you through a comparison of building a global, multi-region MySQL / MariaDB / Percona cloud back-end using AWS Aurora versus Continuent Tungsten.

If you’d like to find out how multi-region AWS Aurora deployments can be improved – then this webinar is for you!

We hope you enjoy it!

Recorded:

Thursday, April 18th at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 4pm BST / 5pm CEST

Recording: follow this link to watch

Slides: …

In case you missed the Multimaster webinar recorded live on Thursday, March 28th, 2019:

Learn how NewVoiceMedia built a global, multi-region MySQL cloud back-end to support a high-volume cloud contact center. 

Agenda:

Find out how to deploy Multimaster MySQL / MariaDB / Percona with the following design criteria:

• Geographically distributed, low-latency data
• Fast local response times for read & write traffic
• Full ACID compliance – atomic operations, guaranteed consistency, isolation, and durability
• Local rapid-failover, automated high availability

Speaker:

Chris Parker

Director of Professional Services – EMEA/APAC, is based in the UK, and has over 20 …

For those of you who missed the webinar, “Geo-Scale MySQL in AWS,” recorded live on Thursday, March 14th, 2019:

Learn how to build a global, multi-region MySQL / MariaDB / Percona cloud back-end capable of serving hundreds of millions of online multiplayer game accounts.

Agenda:

Find out how Riot Games serves a globally distributed audience with low-latency, fast response times for read traffic, rapid-failover automated high availability, simple administration, system visibility, and stability.

Speaker:

Eric M. Stone

COO at Continuent, is a veteran of fast-paced, large-scale enterprise environments with 35 years of Information Technology experience. With a focus on HA/DR, from building data centers and trading floors to world-wide deployments, Eric has …

On December 9th, Baron Schwartz (VividCortex founder and CEO), Michele Corvino (INetU Product Manager), and Jim DeHart (INetU Systems Engineer) joined up to discuss best practices for keeping MySQL databases at peak performance. INetU – the best customer-rated cloud hosting company in the industry – knows the importance of keeping databases running without hitch. Complexity within systems increases as applications grow, which means that as complications arise, there are more risks for end users. Leveraging a database performance tool like VividCortex allows users to take care of such issues as quickly as possible, while optimizing efficiency at the same time.

Check out a recording of the webinar embedded above, or head over to INetU to register for a recording on their site and learn more. …

The MySQL February Newsletter is available! Find out the latest news on MySQL products and MySQL Connect 2014, and read the technical tips written by MySQL experts at Oracle and in the community. Below are the highlights in this edition:

• Start Preparing for MySQL Connect 2014 Call for Papers
• New GA Release: MySQL for Visual Studio
• Blog: State of the UNION
• Blog: New MySQL Web Installer -- Have You Tried It Yet?
• Blog: MySQL Workbench: Frequent Crashes on Mac OS X? This Might Be The Fix
• Event: MySQL Seminars Are Coming to a City Near You

You can read it online or subscribe to it to receive the latest updates right in your inbox. Watch this …

I’m happy to announce that the recording for my recent webinar “5 Proactive Measures to Minimize MySQL Downtime” is now available, along with the slides. They can both be found here.

My webinar focused on the top 5 operational measures that prevent or reduce downtime — along with the related business impact in a significant number of customer emergency scenarios.

As a senior consultant on Percona’s 24×7 Emergency Consulting team, I’ve helped resolve a …

Failure is an unavoidable part of IT life, but it does not always have to imply MySQL service downtime. In the years I have been working at Percona, I have been involved in many customer emergency cases, and I have seen a good number of problems that could have been avoided or alleviated if relatively simple proactive measures were taken.

On July 17th 2013, at 10 a.m. PDT, I will be delivering a webinar focused on presenting the Top 5 such measures, with the objective of helping you assess your current situation, and implement any needed changes to avoid production downtime in the future. The webinar is titled: “5 Proactive Measures to Minimize MySQL Downtime.”

Later that day, I will be delivering the …

Interested in the latest MySQL information across different topics? Don't miss our webinars taking place this week and next!

Thursday, January 24

What’s New in MySQL Connector/.NET 6.6

The recently released MySQL Connector/.NET 6.6 contains impressive new features and capabilities. Join this technical webinar for a quick overview of MySQL Connector/.NET fundamentals followed by a demo and a deeper dive into MySQL Connector/.NET 6.6 technologies.

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Tuesday, January 29

MySQL Enterprise Edition Management Tools

MySQL Enterprise Edition includes the most comprehensive set of advanced features, management tools and technical support to achieve the highest levels of MySQL scalability, security, and uptime. In this webinar, we will focus …