We are happy to invite you to the next MysQL User Camp India event which is hold on March 5th, 2020 in the Oracle office in Bangalore, India. Please find details below:

• Date: March 5, 2020
• Time: 3-5:30pm
• Place: 0C001, Block 1, B wing, Kalyani Magnum IT park, JP Nagar, 7th phase, Bengaluru, India
• Agenda: 
  • MySQL Analytics Cloud Service by Nipun Agarwal, the Vice President, Research & Advanced Development 
  • Metadata Synchronization in NDB Cluster 8.0 by Arnab Ray, the Lead Member Technical Staff
  • Creating multiple DB accounts for an App by Rahul Sisondia, the Principal Member Technical Staff
• Registration: send an email to: <tinku.ajit@oracle.com>
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As follow up to the regular shows announcements, we would like to inform you about places & shows where you can find MySQL Community team or MySQL experts at during March to May 2020 timeframe. Please find the details with a list of MySQL talks & booth details (if available at this time) below:

• March 2020:

  • Southern California Linux Expo (ScaLE), Pasadena, US, March 5-8, 2020

    • MySQL talk: "MySQL New Features for Developers" by David Stokes, the MySQL Community Manager. 
      • Timing: Friday, March 6, 2020 - 15:15 to 16:00
      • Room: 101
    • Booth: please find us in the …

We are happy to announce that on Monday, Jan 13, 2020 there will be a meetup in Dubai on the "MySQL 8 - State of the Dolphin" topic. Please find details below:

• Name: MySQL User Group U.A.E meetup
• Topic: MySQL 8 - State of the Dolphin
• Date: Monday, January 13, 2020
• Time: 7pm - 10pm
• Place: Dubai Internet City
• Agenda:
  • Kenny Gryp from the MySQL Product Management Group talk about MySQL Database Architectures (MySQL InnoDB cluster)
  • Frederic (LeFred) Descamps from the MySQL Community team will talk about MySQL Shell (including NoSQL)
  • Mario Beck, Manager of MySQL Enterprise PreSales team & …

As follow up to the regular shows announcements, we would like to inform you about places & shows where you can find MySQL Community team or MySQL experts at during December to February timeframe. Please find the list below:

December 2019:

• UKOUG Tech Fest, Brighton, UK, December 1-4, 2019

  • Oracle is having a big booth at this show, however this time MySQL is not part of this. Instead David Stokes, the MySQL Community Manager has a MySQL talk on "MySQL 8.0" scheduled for December 2nd @16:45-17:30. Please see the schedule.
• …

We are happy to announce that for the second time a MySQL meetup is hold in Frankfurt Germany. Please see details below:

• Date: October 22, 2019
• Time: 18:30-21:00
• Place: Oracle Deutschland B.V & Co. KG, Neue Mainzer Str. 46-50 - Frankfurt am Main
• Agenda: we will talk about MySQL best practices then have some evening relax with pizza & drinks!
• Speakers: Henry Kröger & Carsten Thalheimer  

More information and registration here.

We are looking forward to meeting & talking to you on Oct 22!

As follow up to the previous blog announcement we would like to inform you about where you can find MySQL & MySQL Community Team during October & November 2019. Please find the list below:

October 2019:

• PerconaLive, Amsterdam, Holland, September 30-October 2, 2019

  • For detailed information see the blog post from last week.
• OpenTech Summit, Bangkok, …

This week you can find our MySQL & MySQL Community experts at following shows:

• db tech showcase, Tokyo, Japan, September 25-27, 2019

  • MySQL team as Silver sponsor will have a booth in the expo area and in total 5 speaking slots related to MySQL as follows: 
    • Two User Case Studies of MySQL
    • Two Technical Sessions by MySQL User Community members (MyNA)
    • MySQL Server, MySQL Workbench and MySQL Shell by MySQL GBU 
  • Please watch organizers' website for more details.
• …

Please find below the conferences & shows where you can find MySQL Community team and/or MySQL experts during this week:

• Oracle Open World / MySQL Reception, San Francisco, US, September 16-19, 2019

  • Same as last year MySQL will be part of OOW in San Francisco and same as last there will be a MySQL Reception on the Sep 17, 2019 at 7pm. The Event will be hold at Samovar Tea Lounge, Yerba Buena Gardens, 730 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA.
  • Please see more details & registration for MySQL OOW Reception here.
• WebExpo, Prague, CZ, …

Please find below the shows & conferences where you can find MySQL Community team or MySQL experts during the week of Sep 9, 2019: 

• SwanseaCon, Swansea, UK, September 9, 2019

  • Do not miss MySQL talk on "NoSQL + SQL =MySQL" give by Stuart Davey, the MySQL Principal Sales Consultant. The talk is scheduled for 11:15-12:00 on Sep 9.
  • ...and come to visit our MySQL booth at the expo area!
• FOSS4G Niigata, Japan, September 13-14, 2019
  • Do not miss the MySQL session during the Core Day on Sep 14 as follows:
    • "Introduction of GIS Functions and Use Cases Enhanced with MySQL 8.0" given by Yoshiaki Yamazaki, the MySQL Senior …

Up to now, the way of updating dbdeployer was the same as installing it for the first time, i.e. looking at the releases page, downloading the binaries for your operating system, unpacking it and finally replacing the existing binaries.

This is not the procedure I follow, however, as for me updating means just compile the latest version I have just finished coding. For this reason, when Simon Mudd mentioned to me that dbdeployer should update itself over the Internet, I didn’t immediately grasp the concept. But then …