Last Thursday (September 17, 13:00 UTC), Lars Thalmann explained the Architecture of MySQL Backup. Lars is leading the MySQL Replication & Backup teams, and has given several MySQL University sessions before.

I was on sick leave last week and forgot to announce this session - sorry!  However, since the session was recorded (video & audio), you can listen to it anytime. Please find the recording and the presentation slides on this page.

MySQL University is a free educational online program for engineers/developers. MySQL University sessions are open to anyone, not just Sun employees. Sessions are recorded (slides and audio), so if you can't attend the live session you can look at the recording anytime after the session.

Here's …

Last Thursday (September 17, 13:00 UTC), Lars Thalmann explained the Architecture of MySQL Backup. Lars is leading the MySQL Replication & Backup teams, and has given several MySQL University sessions before.

I was on sick leave last week and forgot to announce this session - sorry!  However, since the session was recorded (video & audio), you can listen to it anytime. Please find the recording and the presentation slides on this page.

MySQL University is a free educational online program for engineers/developers. MySQL University sessions are open to anyone, not just Sun employees. Sessions are recorded (slides and audio), so if you can't attend the live session you can look at the recording anytime after the session.

Here's …

Last Thursday (September 17, 13:00 UTC), Lars Thalmann explained the Architecture of MySQL Backup. Lars is leading the MySQL Replication & Backup teams, and has given several MySQL University sessions before.

I was on sick leave last week and forgot to announce this session - sorry!  However, since the session was recorded (video & audio), you can listen to it anytime. Please find the recording and the presentation slides on this page.

MySQL University is a free educational online program for engineers/developers. MySQL University sessions are open to anyone, not just Sun employees. Sessions are recorded (slides and audio), so if you can't attend the live session you can look at the recording anytime after the session.

Here's …

I have somehow managed to weasel been selected to speak at a few of the upcoming conferences this October.  I will be presenting at the various conferences either on Performance tuning the MySQL server or on using EXPLAIN.  I know... I know - they must be crazy to have picked me, but I am not crazy enough to turn down the opportunity.

 I will be speaking at Codeworks -Miami (Sept 30 - Oct 1), the Zend PHP Conference (Oct 19 - 22) and the Florida Linux Show (Oct 24) so if you are attending or just in the area - be sure to find me for a chat.  If you are at the Florida Linux Show I will be in the MySQL booth and should also have some goodies to hand out as well - thanks to …

Been a while since we did a post for open positions but this is an important one so wanted to get it out there.

Position Overview:
Manage Zimbra’s rapidly growing technical community and launch our developer outreach program.  A key part of Zimbra’s rapid growth and ongoing success is the ability for us to engage and interact with our open source community.  This position will take the solid base we’ve grown over the past 5 yrs and define and implement a Zimbra developer program to lower the bar for external developers, partners and customers to build solutions around the Zimbra platform.  This will include expanding and leveraging the relationships between Zimbra, our customers, our developers and our sysadmin community members.  A few of the existing public tools and touch points are listed below. This position will build upon and improve the current tools and evaluate and add to these as needed.  The …

Today's the day I fly to Los Angeles to teach a private training class, en route to Santa Clara/San Francisco for our public training workshops next week.

Our Montreal practice teach at Station-C went great - it was an opportunity to do a road test and iron out any kinks in the delivery.

What did I learn in the process?

• Solid examples provide context.  I didn't have the best SHOW GLOBAL STATUS data for the practice teach, but I've edited my slides and our official classes will have much better information.
• Operational issues are one of the most important things people want to hear more information on.  A fair number of students know that dropping an index is not as painless as it should be, but not everyone knows about tools like Flipper and MMM.  It's not the main focus of our InnoDB/XtraDB workshop, but we will cover how to solve these …

In addition to informing you about the events, this calendar does also tell you when a …

The MySQL Community Team maintains a calendar to keep track of Open Source events and conferences that might be relevant from a MySQL point of view (either by submitting a talk, sponsoring or attending it). This calendar is now public - you can either look at the HTML version on the MySQL Forge or subscribe to the iCal feed (e.g. using Mozilla Sunbird or Lightning).

Are we missing an event? If you know any other events that should be included in this calendar, please submit your suggestions via this …

The summer break seems to be over and the event season is heating up again! There is a number of conferences and events coming up in the next months — here is a quick summary of the events that I plan to attend.

This Friday I will attend an event here in Hamburg: the "Silpion Sommerfest", organized by Silpion (a local IT solutions provider which is a partner of Sun Microsystems as well). I will be there to network and talk about MySQL.

This coming weekend (2009-09-12/2009-09-13), there will be the PHP Unconference here in Hamburg, Germany . It will consist of two days of Barcamp-style sessions about …

It's almost two weeks now since FrOSCon and the OpenSQL Camp subconference have taken place in Sankt Augustin, Germany — about time for a summary and update from my side!

First off, I would like to thank all of the participants and supporters, particularly my colleagues Regina Steyer and Iris Musiol for the perfect logistics and co-sponsoring as well as Uli Graef, Thorsten Frueauf, Matthias Schmidt, Alexander Rubin and Joerg Moellenkamp for manning the Sun booth and the help on site.

Another big Thank You goes out to my team mates …