This is a cross-post from my personal blog. Are you involved with an open-source project that’s interesting to MySQL users, such as Nginx, PHPMyAdmin, Drupal, Jenkins, PHP, and so on? Percona just published the application form for dot-org groups to have a free expo hall booth in the Percona Live MySQL Conference in April. Please submit your applications now, and tell your friends about this, because a) the schedule for applying is very short, and b) space is limited.

For those of you who don’t know what this is, it’s another of the O’Reilly traditions we’re trying to continue. (We are trying very hard to make this event as close to a clone of O’Reilly’s as we can.) It’s a free …

We’ve released Percona Toolkit 2.0.3, with a couple of major improvements and many minor ones. You can download it, read the documentation, and get support for it.

What’s new? You can read the changelog for the details, but here are the highlights:

Brand new pt-diskstats, thanks to Brian Fraser. This tool is completely rewritten, and it’s finally the iostat replacement I always wanted. Not only does it have the functionality I want (interactive, slice and dice, smart …

February is going to be a busy meetup month for me. In addition to speaking in Raleigh I will visit Charlotte to speak at Meetup out there on February 23rd. Last year I visited Charlotte meetup was in the great place and we had great food and great crowd of people showing up. I will talk about Optimizing MySQL Configuration which I believe is a great topic for this meetup as it will be helpful for developers to learn basics MySQL configuration as well as for Advanced MySQL DBAs to learn a trick or two they did not know. As an extra treat for attendees I will bring exclusive discount to MySQL Conference and Expo as well as some signed …

I’ll be presenting at MySQL Meetup in Raleigh,NC February 21,2012. The talk with be about Optimizing MySQL Configuration which I believe is a great topic for my first talk at this meetup group as it covers something every MySQL user has to deal with, also being something both beginner and advanced MySQL Users can learn a lot from. I’ll also bring High Performance MySQL 2nd edition for a drawing as well as exclusive discount codes for MySQL Conference and Expo 2012 in Santa Clara. See you there.

I am pleased to announce the schedule for Percona Live: MySQL Conference And Expo 2012 is now published. This is truly great selection of talks with something for MySQL Developers, DBAs, Managers, people just starting to use MySQL as well as looking for advanced topics. We have talks about running MySQL on extremely large scale in a Web as well as running MySQL In the Enterprise Environments. Some speakers have spent over decade pushing MySQL to its limits, others have in depth experience working on MySQL Code.

We have many talks which are covering Oracle MySQL, and forks such as MariaDB, Drizzle and …

On the 25th of January at 10 am PST, I will present a webinar on preventing MySQL emergencies titled “Preventing Downtime in Production MySQL Servers”. The material I will present is based on in-depth research done by Percona across many production servers.  We analyzed more than 150 emergency cases and categorized our findings to help you learn ways to avoid production downtimes. Join us to learn more about why emergencies happen (it may be different than what you think) and what you can do to avoid them.

Sign up for the webinar now by visiting our webinar page [http://www.percona.com/webinars/2012-01-25-preventing-downtime-in-production-mysql-servers/].

If you’ve missed Percona Live in Washington,DC and even if you did not you should be happy to know we have now published slides from majority of talks at this conference. Enjoy! This conference had great talks, whenever you’re Beginner or Advanced when it comes to MySQL. Also remember not to miss MySQL Conference in Santa Clara,CA April 10-12 2012.

You probably saw that Vadim blogged about the first alpha release of Percona XtraDB Cluster. Just in time: now I can talk about it at my High Availability talk in Percona Live DC! If you’re coming, be sure to catch us in the hallway and ask those specific questions that won’t be addressed in a general survey talk on HA solutions.

In just over a week, we’ll be running a Percona Live MySQL conference in the nation’s capital, in a beautiful modern conference facility that has its own Metro rail stop. And for a limited time, you can save 20% with this discount code: PerLiveDC.

If you’re in the DC area and you use MySQL, this is the event you shouldn’t miss. Here’s what you’ll see:

• Technical talks on core MySQL topics such as replication, high availability, and performance tuning. Speakers include Percona’s Peter Zaitsev, Baron Schwartz, Kenny Gryp, Yves Trudeau, Espen Braekken, and industry giants such as AOL’s Mike DelNegro and PayPal’s Daniel Austin. No fluff, no sales pitches.
• An evening panel on cloud and virtualization, featuring people who’ve built large systems in and out of the cloud. We’ll have Peter Zaitsev, Theo Schlossnagle …

I’m happy to announce that we’ve released Percona Toolkit 2.0.1, a major new version of our essential DBA toolkit, as well as a minor bugfix update to the old 1.0.x series. You can download it from the project homepage, or install it through our RPM and DEB repositories.

Documentation is online (and the 1.0 docs are here), and you can come learn more in-person at the Washington DC Percona Live event next week. …