The German Unix User Group (GUUG) will hold their annual conference "Frühjahrsfachgespräch" on September 23-26 this year (I know, not really "Frühjahr" anymore, but this is how it is).

The Call for Presentations is still open until May 31st. Talks can be proposed in German and English, and there are slots for longer tutorials as well.

The range of possible topics is broad, so if you think you have anything interesting to share with a very passionate and technical audience of sysadmins and developers, here are some suggestions:

• Operating Systems/Applications: architectures, privilege concepts, new developments, administration, mobile systems
• Relevant new OS Kernel features: new developments in Linux-, BSD- or other Spen …

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).

and the video can be directly played in your browser at http://technocation.org/node/697/play or downloaded (170Mb) at http://technocation.org/node/697/download.

and the video can be directly played in your browser at http://technocation.org/node/697/play or downloaded (170Mb) at http://technocation.org/node/697/download.

I do not recall seeing an announcement about it, pancreatitis but I went looking for the videos today and lo and behold, they were up! Forgive me if I missed a post about it….but if you also missed it, here they are:

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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 …

My slides for presentations on MySQL Backup and Recovery Essentials and Understanding and using MySQL in the Cloud from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) event in Medellín‎ Colombia are now available.

Thank you to the Colombia Oracle Users Group for inviting me to the event.

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At Cloud Expo East 2013 I gave a presentation of my experiences in dealing with large AWS environments. In summary this included:

1. Understanding AWS Products (especially the growth of new/revised products and pricing)
2. Knowing the true Cost of your deployment and options with instances types, sizes and products
3. Being prepared for Web Scale
4. The importance of Security, what exists, the minimum you need to know working with external resources
5. Why most …

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This week I was the guest speaker at the New York Linux Users Group (NYLUG) Meetup where I had the opportunity to talk about The history and future of the MySQL Ecosystem. This talk, titled “”Spaghetti and MySQLBalls (with a side of greens)” detailed the beginnings of MySQL, the MySQL acquisition history, described the state of current MySQL versions/variants/forks, storage engines, related vendors …

Next Friday (31st of May) the second MySQL Meetup User Group NL of this year will be hosted by Snow IT in Geldermalsen. It is great to see that various companies are hosting the meetup and that the diversity and number of people attending is increasing. In total three presentations will be given: Choosing the […]

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There is a long list of new replication features in the latest MySQL 5.6 release including:

• Binary log group commit
• Multi-threaded slaves
• Crash-save slaves
• Global Transaction Identifier (GTID)
• Replication checksums
• Optimized row-based replication
• Time-delayed replication
• Remote binary log backup
• UUID

This presentation from the MySQL Tech Tour events in New York and Boston provides an overview and syntax examples of many of these features. The Effective MySQL: Replication Techniques in Depth also discusses many of these features in detail. Chapter 3 is …

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At the recent MySQL Tech Tour Events in New York and Boston I gave a presentation on MySQL integration with NoSQL,Big Data and the Cloud.

This covered discussion on topics including:

• Memcached API for InnoDB
• InnoDB Online Alter
• InnoDB Full Text Search (FTS)
• Partitioning inprovements for import/export
• SSD Optimisations
• Replication Improvements
• And much more …