Kris Buytaert organized a MySQL Meetup at FOSDEM last year, and because of the success we’ll be doing it again this year, in the same restaurant: Sogno d’Italia.

Everybody is invited to come to the dinner. Just register on http://mysqlandfriendsfosdem2011.eventbrite.com/ so we have an idea how many reservations we should make. The maximum capacity is about 40 people.

We’ll plan to meet at 19:00 on Saturday, under the big tree in front of the AW building. Then we’ll walk to the restaurant, which is about 5 minutes walking distance.

The Independent Oracle User Group (IOUG) has formed the MySQL Council, with the purpose of addressing the interests and needs of MySQL users.

The current Council members are:

• Sarah Novotny, Blue Gecko, Council Chair
• Sheeri Cabral, PalominoDB
• Bradley Kuszmaul, Tokutek
• Giuseppe Maxia, Continuent
• Rob Wultsch, GoDaddy.com
• Matt Yonkovit, Percona

The IOUG is a well established and respected institution, with more than 20,000 database professionals registered as its members. In the long history of Oracle, the IOUG has always played a role in the aftermath of many acquisitions, extending a friendly hand to the newcomers in the family. I have spent much time with IOUG people, and I was impressed by their enthusiasm and …

I am pleased to announce that the Oracle ACE program has two new MySQL inductees. These people actively contribute to the MySQL community via a varied means in an unbiased and non commercial way.

Giuseppe Maxia (aka DataCharmer) is no stranger to the MySQL community having filled a position with MySQL Inc/Sun Microsystems/Oracle Corporation in the Community team for many years. Giuseppe was an active member in the community before this position, and continues to provide great input with tools such as the MySQL sandbox and many project and code snippets on the MySQL Forge as well as many writings for the Developer zone.

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Just a quick reminder: the Oracle user groups of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Russia are organizing a joint conference, the Harmony. It will take place on May 19th-20th in Helsinki, Finland. I've met the organizers at the IOUC summit that took place at the Oracle HQ this week and they would love to have some more MySQL content. So if you have an idea for a talk about a MySQL-related topic, please submit it! The call for papers closes on February, 1st!

My calendar is filling up with speaking engagements about MySQL at various events quickly. Here is a list of events for the coming months where I'll be present:

• On Wednesday, January 26th, I will be speaking about MySQL High Availability Solutions at the San Francisco MySQL Meetup. I feel honored for having been invited to speak there and I'm quite excited that venue is fully booked! I look forward to meeting so many MySQL users in one place.
• On Saturday, February 5th, I'll be attending and speaking at the MySQL & Friends Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. I helped organizing the DevRoom and preparing the schedule for this event. …

After last week’s post about bloggin trends, this week I will go through the most active bloggers over the years as well as particularly for 2010.

What is the range of time analysed here?

mysql >  select min(date_time), max(date_time) from blogs;
+---------------------+---------------------+
| min(date_time)      | max(date_time)      |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 2004-03-04 19:47:00 | 2011-01-07 13:22:00 |
+---------------------+---------------------+
1 row in set (0.04 sec)

How many blog posts in the above period (almost 7years)?

mysql >  select count(*) from blogs;
+----------+
| count(*) |
+----------+
|    21698 |
+----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

How many authors have contributed to planetmysql?

mysql >  select count(distinct(author)) from blogs; …

OurSQL, the MySQL database community podcast is back! These podcasts are brought to you by two well-known MySQL community members: Sheeri K. Cabral and Sarah Novotny provide you with regular updates on what's happening in the MySQL community.

Sarah and Sheeri have been very busy — they already produced four new episodes since this project has been picked up again. The last ones even include their own catchy intro tune!

The recordings are now available from the MySQL Developer Zone as well. Thanks to Markus Popp from the MySQL web team for creating the web page, which is using some slick HTML5 functionality to provide the audio streams.

The production of …

I've been reworking the Creating a CRUD Application with PHP tutorials. The new version should be ready for 7.0 Beta 2 release. In the new version:

• I replaced mysql functions with mysqli functions.
• With the help of Christoper Jones, I've added OCI8 versions of the code for connecting to Oracle Database
• I've fixed some old bugs and improved the tutorials overall.

In the course of this work, two things have come to my attention. These are two things that you can help with.

• The title Creating a CRUD Application... is not very appealing.
  
• The sample CSS used for Lesson 8 is terrible.

So first, can anyone suggest a new title? We have one suggestion already, internally: Creating a Database Application …

I've been reworking the Creating a CRUD Application with PHP tutorials. The new version should be ready for 7.0 Beta 2 release. In the new version:

• I replaced mysql functions with mysqli functions.
• With the help of Christoper Jones, I've added OCI8 versions of the code for connecting to Oracle Database
• I've fixed some old bugs and improved the tutorials overall.

In the course of this work, two things have come to my attention. These are two things that you can help with.

• The title Creating a CRUD Application... is not very appealing.
  
• The sample CSS used for Lesson 8 is terrible.

So first, can anyone suggest a new title? We have one suggestion already, internally: Creating a Database Application …