We got a great response to our Percona MySQL University event in Raleigh With about a week to go before event we’re around 90% full, so if you plan to attend do not delay your registration until last minute. Also if you have registered before but can’t attend at this point please release your ticket so we can accommodate as many people as possible.

Number of people approached me about getting together for a drinks and dinner with Percona Team after the event and we’re happy to oblige. We’ll have Percona Mixer event at Flying Saucer Draught Emporium . If you plan on joining us please register for Percona Mixer at Percona MySQL University, Raleigh Eventbrite page so we …

I’m pleased to announce the first of the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 keynote speakers and new sponsors including Amazon Web Services, Google, Clustrix, Scalebase, PalominoDB, Database Trends & Applications, and Linux Journal. We are also now accepting applications for the DotOrg Pavilion. Also, nominations are now being accepted for the 2013 MySQL Community Awards which will be given during the conference Community Networking Reception.

The 2012 Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo featured sponsorship and speakers from some of the world’s most admired brands and was enthusiastically received by more than 1,000 attendees, many of whom praised the breadth and caliber of the sessions. The conference was so popular that we added a …

I’m pleased to announce the initial list of keynote speakers for the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo, April 22-25 in Santa Clara, California. The conference promises great content with over 90 speakers in more than 110 sessions, 15 tutorials, and multiple keynotes. The MySQL Community Awards 2013 are also now accepting nominations. And do not miss your chance to save by taking advantage of the Super Saver registration rates which are only available for a few more days!

Keynote Speakers

This year the Percona Live MySQL Conference is pleased to welcome Matt Aslett of 451 Research who will present the keynote “MySQL, YourSQL, NoSQL, NewSQL – the State of the MySQL Ecosystem”. You can help Matt with his presentation by participating in 451 Research’s …

I’ll be presenting a webinar next Wednesday, January 23 at 10 a.m. (Pacific Time), about issues application developers should think about for scaling out read-query traffic using multiple MySQL instances in a replication pair.

Specifically, about the care we have to take because replication is asynchronous.  This means the slave  may not have current data at all times, so an application must choose to query the slave or the master dynamically.  As much as possible, we’d like to automate this choice so that application developers can be the most productive.

Please join me for this webinar by registering here: http://www.percona.com/webinars/readwrite-splitting-mysql-and-php

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Just like previous years, the ‘MySQL And Friends’ community is gathering to have a dinner on the Saturdaynight of FOSDEM. This time it is on February 2nd, 2013.

This year, it will not be an Italian restaurant, but more a Belgian style restaurant, about 10 minutes walk from the FOSDEM event.

Mirabelle: http://www.mirabelle.be/index.php?lang=en
Chaussée de Boondael, 455
1050, Ixelles

If you wish to attend, please register at http://fosdemmysqlandfriendsdinner2013.eventbrite.com

FOSDEM MySQL And Friends Devroom Schedule is available …

Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.66-14.2 on January 15th, 2013 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories).

Based on MySQL 5.1.66, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.66-14.2 is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the 5.1.66-14.2 milestone at Launchpad.

New Features:

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Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2013 – the largest MySQL Conference event of the year is getting close and we’re now announcing two community activities which are going to happen at this event.

Call of DotOrg Pavilion exhibitors is open – DotOrg pavilion is a free expo hall space for non commercial projects relevant for MySQL community. If you’re working on the project which you would like to get in front of a larger community but can’t afford expo hall exhibitor price tag because of non commercial nature of the project it is a great opportunity to do so. In the previous years participants included projects like …

In a few hours I’m leaving for my “SouthEast Meetup Tour” first going to Charlotte where I’m speaking Today, Jan 14, about MySQL Indexing: Best practices on local MySQL Meetup and then going to Atlanta to give the same talk on Atlanta MySQL Meetup Jan 15th. If you’re in the area please come by, I’ll have some Books and T-shirts to give away!

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At Percona we focus on education a lot, which we believe is critical for us to be successful with our mission of making businesses successful with their use of MySQL. The MySQL Performance Blog, our first effort in this space, by now contains over 1,000 technical articles. We have spoken on countless conferences and Meetups and have published our knowledge in our “High Performance MySQL” book. We answer your questions on our forums, and host free technical Webinars. And for more intense MySQL educational experiences we offer …

Start of the year and time for the first speaking tour. This time I will take my MySQL Indexing Best Practices presentation to Charlotte on January 14 and Atlanta on January 15.

I think this presentation is great for Meetup as it is both providing a lot of very good ready to use practical advice on picking MySQL indexes to people only starting to use MySQL, as well as going into the more advanced topics of MySQL index trickery so even advanced MySQL users will find something new to learn. Meetup format should also allow us more time to go into more details and more practical questions when useful. Bring your own indexing war stories if you’re joining us !

Another great thing about indexing topic is this is something both MySQL Developers and MySQL DBAs and Ops people need …