We will be holding our highly acclaimed MySQL workshops in Frankfurt, Germany the week of February 13th. Early registration is open; enroll today and secure your seat. Detail and enrollment can be found here.

Merry Christmas! Just in time for the holidays, we have released a new tool to help you configure and manage your MySQL servers. Our online MySQL Configuration Wizard can help you generate a good basic configuration file for a server. This MySQL tuning wizard is our answer to the commonly asked question, “what is a good default configuration file for my server with 16 GB of RAM?”

We have a raft of new features planned for future releases, including advanced configuration options, supersafe settings to prevent bad things from happening, and much more. In the future we plan to add more online tools to help you be more productive.

Please give it a spin and let us know what you think. Credit for this tool must go to Miguel Trias, our talented lead developer. Thanks also to the many experts inside Percona who helped test, and …

Not to be outdone by Vadim’s announcement, I also have one: Percona Toolkit’s manual is now available as PDF (requires registration). You can get it here: http://www.percona.com/software/percona-toolkit/

Thanks to Mauricio Stekl, who did all the hard work to create the PDF of the manual — and did it fast, too.

2012 is near… and so is the next FOSDEM edition !

This year again, MySQL will be represented by its Community.

If you want to discuss with friend’s of MySQL it’s the place to be in February !

Like every year, FOSDEM takes place the first week-end of February in Brussels.

The MySQL and Friends devroom is Room H.1309 (150 seats). We (the MySQL Community) will have the room on Sunday 5th February 2012, all day.

We are organizing a MySQL & Friends dinner on Saturday night, more to come later on this.

If you want to propose a talk (you are in fact invited to propose one !), the deadline is December 26th.
Like we did on past editions, as soon as the talks are submitted, we will ask everyone to vote on the talks via …

Many of you have seen the announcement for our Percona Live in Washington, DC in January! But did you know we also have our highly rated MySQL Training coming to Washington, DC the week of January 16h? Full details can be found on the Percona website. If you would like to attend the MySQL Training, click here to register and receive a 20% discount.

If you are close to Washington DC, you should plan to attend our Percona Live event on January 11th at the DC Convention Center. We have three tracks of expert speakers on core MySQL-related topics.

This event will not be as large as some of the other events we’ve run, with a capacity of about 200. Frankly, we are targeting this to more local attendees. We know that a lot of people simply can’t travel out to Santa Clara for the main MySQL conference every year, and we want to make sure there is great technical content for them. This is part of our idea to host smaller regional events periodically to try to make sure top-quality MySQL events are more accessible to all, not just the privileged.

We have …

We announced a while back that we were going to continue the traditional MySQL conference in Santa Clara, because O’Reilly wasn’t doing it anymore. But we haven’t given an update in a while. Here’s the current status:

• We created a conference committee.
• We created a conference website that allows people to create an account and submit proposals. We’re currently looking for session proposals; more on that later.
• We have been working hard on the logistics of the venue, food and beverage, audio/visual, power, networking, exhibit hall, registration, hotel rooms, and a number of other things. …

We had a lot of great technical presentations at Percona Live, London If you did not have a chance to attend or if you did but could not be at 5 rooms at the same time you can check out slides which have been just made available for download for most of the talks. Enjoy and see you on our future events !

If you have been waiting for Percona’s highly rated MySQL courses to be taught near you, your wait is over. We will be holding our Developer, DBA, InnoDB, and Operations training in the following cities:

• Dublin, Ireland – December 5 – 8, 2011
• San Diego, CA – December 12 – 15, 2011
• New York, NY – January 9 – 12, 2012
• Washington, DC – January 16 – 19, 2012

Full details on the courses can be found on the Percona website. We are providing a special discount code to our MySQL Performance Blog readers. When you purchase your ticket, enter discount code PBLOG to receive 10% off. Act now while early registration is open to save even more.

Even if you didn’t make it to Percona Live London, you can get the chance to hang out with us.
We’re giving a reception at the Revolution Bar America Square just a few meters walk from the Tower Hill Underground between 17:30 and 19:30 today (Tuesday 25 October 2011).

All friends of Percona are welcome. See you there!

Thanks to Clustrix for sponsoring the drinks.