Thanks to all of our sponsors, speakers, speaker selection committee, event staff, and especially the attendees for making last week’s conference a resounding success. With over a thousand people, the event made a good comeback after last year’s event, but more importantly, the mood was strongly optimistic. I think a lot of people arrived with some uncertainty about how it would turn out, but the doubts didn’t last long, and after a few hours I believe everyone felt the energy and enthusiasm.

The positive comments on the Internet certainly seem to point that direction: Florian Haas called it “awe-inspiring.” …

I’m delighted to announce a partnership with New Relic. The press release has the details (all new Gold and Platinum support contracts get free New Relic subscriptions) but I wanted to add some of the behind-the-scenes context.

The quote from me in the press release is a real quote: I really have been telling people for years that they should use New Relic. I even wrote it in the new edition of High Performance MySQL.

Why? Simple. People who use New Relic are more able to self-service. And anytime I can point people to the best solution for them, …

We have spent months planning and preparing for the MySQL conference that begins tomorrow. It seems appropriate to reflect on this process, where the open source and business communities are now, and what we have planned for the future.

The annual April MySQL conference was a strong and growing event for years, drawing hundreds of people at its peak. The conference has always been vital not only to MySQL and those who care about MySQL, but also to the many companies that use and enhance MySQL, and that contribute far more to MySQL than might be apparent. But after the acquisitions by Sun and Oracle, O’Reilly found it more difficult to promote the conference. When it became clear that Oracle wouldn’t change their mind about not supporting the event, O’Reilly did not announce a 2012 event.

That’s where Percona stepped in. We were not willing to let the conference die. Others talked about doing something, but Percona took the …

I’m proud to announce the GA release of version 2.1 of Percona Toolkit. Percona Toolkit is the essential suite of administrative tools for MySQL.

With this release we introduce a new version of pt-online-schema-change, a tool that enables you to ALTER large tables with no blocking or downtime. As you know, MySQL locks tables for most ALTER operations, but pt-online-schema-change performs the ALTER without any locking. Client applications can continue reading and writing the table with no interruption.

With this new version of the tool, one of the most painful things anyone experiences with MySQL is significantly alleviated. If you’ve ever delayed a project’s schedule because the release involved an ALTER, which …

I am excited to announce the availability of the GA release of our new product Percona XtraDB Cluster.

Percona XtraDB Cluster is a High Availability and Scalability solution for MySQL Users and is based on Percona Server 5.5.20.

With this release we make clustering very easy and affordable for everyone. You can convert your existing MySQL replication setup into a cluster in just a couple minutes.

Tomorrow, 4-April-2012, I will be giving a webinar where I will explain what Percona XtraDB Cluster is and how does it …

I’m excited by all of the recent developments surrounding the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo! Our own Baron Schwartz will moderate the Diamond Keynote Panel entitled “Future Perfect: The Road Ahead for MySQL” which will feature a panel of MySQL industry leaders, including: Sundar Raghavan, director product management at Amazon; Paul Mikesell, CEO of Clustrix; a representative from HP; and, a representative from McAfee. The Diamond Sponsor Keynote Panel will take place at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 12th and provide insight into the future of MySQL technology, adoption, and the ecosystem landscape. I am also very pleased to introduce two new sponsors including McAfee which recently joined as a Diamond Sponsor and AOL which …

It’s taken a little while to sort out the contest logistics, but we’re ready now, so I want to congratulate our three first-prize winners to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo:

• David Juntgen
• Jeff Hansen
• Domenick Petrella

For helping us to promote the conference, they’re receiving full conference passes, including tutorials. I hope you enjoy the conference, guys, and look forward to seeing you there!

Our ten second-prize winners receive a copy of High Performance MySQL Third Edition, and I’m still in progress with that.

By the way, if you’re not registered for the conference yet, a lot of things are getting …

We’re very pleased with community support for Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. We’ve got wonderful speakers providing content of phenomenal session lineup for the conference this year. We have community helping by spreading the world, about conference, picking talks and all king of other
wonderful contributions.

We also have series of events organized by Community and different organizations, taking place around the conference which you surely should not miss:

Pythian is stepping in to organize traditional …

I’m speaking at POSSCON in Columbia,SC next week (March 28). My talk will be about Open Source software Percona Produces – Percona Server, Percona Xtrabackup, Percona Toolkit, Percona XtraDB Cluster. If you want to get a birds eye view about Open Source software Percona has created this is a great talk to attend.

We’re also Sponsoring event this year so we encourage you to come by and say Hi to us at the Expo hall Booth.

If you’re also attending and would like to meet up to have a chat, please drop me a note.

The Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo is going to be awesome! Great speakers, an A-list of sponsors, countless opportunities to engage with the community, and an enthusiastic crowd of MySQL users ensure this is going to be a great event. The conference features 72 breakout sessions, keynotes by leading industry luminaries, an optional day of 16 tutorial sessions, a bustling exhibit hall, and numerous opportunities to connect with other community members.

I am pleased to announce the conference Birds of a Feather sessions and Lightning Talks. Birds of a Feather sessions will be Tuesday and Wednesday nights following the evening receptions. Lightning Talks will be …