Just a reminder that I will be giving a talk “Percona XtraDB Cluster” on coming San Francisco MySQL Meetup, next Wednesday, March-21, 2012. Along with talk I will give away one full ticket (tutorials + sessions + expo hall) to Percona Live MySQL User Conference 2012 and three copies our new book “High Performance MySQL, 3rd edition”. Well, I hope I will have printed copies at that time; if not, I will give away promises to send printed copies to winners as soon as I have them.
If you are in SF Bay are, I hope to see you on meetup.

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We’re giving away three full conference passes (worth $995 each) to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, and you can win one simply by sharing the conference with your friends and colleagues! Second prize is one of ten copies of the new High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition (worth $55 each), the recently released update to the popular second edition!

This year’s MySQL Conference and Expo will be the best ever, with a better lineup of talks and speakers than ever before.  It’s the one event you should not miss if you’re at all interested in MySQL.  We really want you to be there — and that’s why we’re giving away free tickets and books, and making it easy for you …

Next Wednesday, March-21, 11:00am Pacific Time, Baron and me will be co-presenting with Virident webinar: “How to Turbocharge Your MySQL Performance Using Flash Storage” (From Virident side: Shridar Subramanian and Shirish Jamthe).

Running MySQL on SSD in interesting topic and on the webinar we will cover:

• Configuration and optimization techniques to fully leverage flash-based storage solutions in MySQL environments
• Evaluation criteria and techniques for selecting the suitable flash-storage technology for the relevant MySQL workloads
• Price/performance advantages (ROI) when flash storage is used appropriately for MySQL workloads
• Approaches for scaling MySQL instances on fewer servers while delivering optimal performance using flash drives

The registration is free and …

Have you authored a technical book that’s relevant to MySQL users? Want to get great visibility for yourself and your book? We’re planning a book-signing session for the upcoming MySQL conference, and you can participate in it.

In brief, we’ll provide a table for you, and you’ll then be able to promote yourself, i.e. post an update on your blog and tell people to bring their book to the table for your autograph. This will be very much in the thick of the conference, which means two things: you’ll get a lot of attention, and it’s attendee-only (just so you know). The exact hours are TBD, but we have a 4-hour window on Wednesday night within which the lightning talks, community awards, and reception also happen — and we have to juggle a couple of those. So it might be earlier, might be later, but that’s when it’ll be: Wednesday night, …

Early Bird Pricing for the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo ends today, March 12th. Hotel room rates at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara go up March 19th, if rooms are still available at that time. Save money on your conference pass and hotel room by registering now.

The conference features 72 breakout sessions, an optional day of 16 tutorial sessions, a bustling exhibit hall, and numerous opportunities to connect with other community members including a Tuesday night Welcome Reception and the Wednesday Night Community Networking …

Congratulations to Monty Program and the many community contributors for releasing the GA version of MariaDB 5.3. We were in our annual all-staff meeting last week, so we are a little slow to blog about this and acknowledge the great work that has gone into MariaDB. Better late than never, I hope.

Before I discuss some of the improvements in MariaDB 5.3, let me mention a few things briefly. First, Peter and Ovais are doing a lot of benchmarking of specific MariaDB 5.3 and MySQL 5.6 optimizer improvements, and both of them look very good indeed. Peter will present the results in an “optimizer standoff” talk at the upcoming MySQL conference, and Timour and Sergei from Monty Program will present a …

We are on our way to delivery a production ready release of Percona XtraDB Cluster by the end March-2012.
We will do couple events to cover features and architecture of XtraDB Cluster.

• I will give a talk on San Francisco MySQL Meetup, on March-21: Percona’s new HA solution for MySQL with XtraDB Cluster. If you are in the area, I hope to see you there. I will give away some good stuff, including free copies of our new book: High Performance MySQL, 3rd edition
• Webinar on April-4 A New High Availability Solution for MySQL

. If you are not in San Francisco and can’t not make to …

A quick reminder. I’m speaking on two MySQL meetups in North Carolina this week. Tuesday,Feb 21 on Raleigh MySQL/PHP Meetup and when Wednesday, Feb 22 on Charlotte Queen City PHP Note the last meetup date has changed, it was originally planned for February 23 but had to be rescheduled due to conflicts.

We’ve released a new set of monitoring plugins for MySQL servers and related software. With these plugins, you can set up world-class graphing and monitoring for your MySQL servers, using your own on-premises Cacti and Nagios software. The Cacti plugins are derived from an existing set of templates we’ve been using for several years, but the Nagios check plugins are brand new. They are informed by the research we did into the causes and preventions of MySQL downtime.

Like all Percona software, the plugins are open-source and free, licensed under the GNU GPL. The source code and issue tracker are hosted at …

On coming PL MySQL conference 2012 I will give one tutorial:
Percona XtraBackup: install, usage, tricks. This tutorial I will do in joint with Alexey Kopytov, the lead developer of Percona XtraBackup. Our intent is to provide the comprehensive overview of the XtraBackup architecture and features, and we will touch future roadmap. This is all first-hand information from the main architect and lead developer.

And two talks:

• Percona XtraDB Cluster: New HA solution

. There I will cover XtraDB Cluster features and usage scenarios.