We've been busy expanding our training curriculum to include training for developers building applications with MySQL.  We have reached the point where we're ready for a pilot teach - and it brings me great pleasure to announce that we're opening it up for blog readers to attend, free of charge.

The details:
San Francisco
4th December
9:30AM - 5PM

Spaces are limited, so to give everyone a fair chance we're delaying registration to open at noon tomorrow (Friday) Pacific Time. It's strictly first in first served, so be quick!  The registration link is here.

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Dear Community,

As of today release 0.9.5rc is available.

In this release there are following changes:
Changelog:

• Option --no-lock is added to innobackupex-1.5.1. Use it only while ALL your
  tables are InnoDB and you DO NOT CARE about binary log
  position of backup
• XtraBackup is ported for InnoDB Plugin 1.0.4. Barracuda file format as well as compressed tables are supported. We thank a well known Social Network site for the sponsorship.
  
• Windows conscious change more
• Impoved error messages in innobackupex
• Windows conscious experimental change
• Suppress purge when --stats
• Build number in RPM name. For instance, in the name xtrabackup-0.9.5rc-50.rhel5.x86_64.rpm 50 is the …

It's time to announce our plans for Percona Performance Conference 2010. We will hold the event on April 12th and 13th in Santa Clara, California. In the months to come we will announce the theme, the exact location (we have it reserved, but it's subject to change), the exact dates (we may add days), and we'll open up registration and a Call For Proposals. Stay tuned!

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On the heels of our earlier announcement of Fernando and Yves, I'm happy to welcome Devananda van der Veen to our team.

Devananda, also known as Deva, is a talented, detail-oriented MySQL expert and systems administrator. His previous job was at Hydra, an advertising network, where he was sole DBA and half of the systems and network engineering team. Deva likes to automate: he wrote the mycat MySQL administration tools, and he knows how to administer lots of servers simultaneously. He is active in open-source software development, and very excited about Drizzle.

Deva lives with his wife and dogs on Washington's beautiful …

Dear Community,

As of today the 19-th build of MySQL server with Percona patches is available.

Comparing to the previous release it has following new features:

• The build is based on MySQL-5.0.86
• Fix from Neil Katin to userstatv2.patch
• fix InnoDB slowness with large queries

Fixed bugs in the build:

• Bug #413858 in Percona patches: “Crash from failed assertion in dict0dict.c”

You can download binaries and sources with the patches here

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Dear Community,

We are glad to present you release 8 of XtraDB.

The release includes following new features:

• The release is base on 1.0.4 version of InnoDB plugin. We thank Schooner Information Technology for sponsoring and testing the port of XtraDB to 1.0.4
• MySQL 5.1.39 as a base release

Fixed bugs:

• Bugs#413858: Crash from failed assertion in dict0dict.c
• Bug#417751:
  XtraDB crashes on startup on windows
• fix-import-extern-pages
• Number of mysql-tests are fixed

The builds for RedHat4,5 and Debian are located on …

I'm happy to extend a warm welcome to two new members of the Percona team.

First is Yves Trudeau, about whom I can say many things:

• One of the top MySQL Cluster (NDB Cluster) experts in the world.
• An expert on all things High Availability, including DRBD and Heartbeat.
• Many years of experience with Huge Data.
• Half of the Waffle Grid team.
• A really nice person!

Yves joins us after a tenure of several years as a senior consultant at Sun/MySQL. Together with Matt Yonkovit, he plans to work on WaffleGrid (but as a new project under a new name, to be determined), and integration with XtraDB. Yves lives in Quebec with his family.

Next is Fernando Ipar. Fernando is our first dedicated Shift Support Captain[1]. Fernando specializes in MySQL, GNU/Linux, systems administration, and high availability. Fernando has been involved in computer programming since …

I wanted to write a few administrative updates in one so I didn't spam everyone's feed readers too much. Here we go:

• We've had reports of some lost comments.  We reported this via Twitter a while ago, but thought it was fixed.  We'll try and pay more attention to spam filtering, but we wanted to reach out and say - let us know if you are one of the people having problems.  We're listening.  (Of course if you have any suggestions on how to manage/filter through thousands of spam items/week, we'd like to know as well).
• Pingbacks were recently dropped when we upgraded to Wordpress 2.8.  Miss them? …

Dear Community,

The 18-th build of MySQL server with Percona patches is available now.

Comparing to the previous release it has following new features:

• The build is based on MySQL-5.0.84
• Fixed the issue with CLIENT_STATISTICS
• New patch innodb_recovery_patches.patch greatly improves recovery time

Fixed bugs in the build:

• Bug #407117 in Percona patches: "any mysql-test fails with a warning "master.err: ctype_ucs2_def: InnoDB: Warning: some resources were not cleaned up in shutdown:""
• …

I will be presenting at upcoming MySQL Meetup at San Francisco this Thursday, August 13. I will talk about Sphinx covering the new cool features this search engine has as well as showing the demo on how simple it is to use Sphinx to implement high performance full text search for your MySQL driven application.

We also will have the raffle for 2 tickets for Performance Optimization for MySQL with Innodb and XtraDB Single Day Intense Training Workshop for either Santa Clara or San Francisco locations.

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