Keith Larson and I will be at SCaLE at the LAX Hilton Friday until Sunday. Yes, we have swag and want to get your feedback. Don’t forget the Friday night BOF session.

And we also will be at the San Francisco MySQL Users Group where I will present Goldilocks and the Three Queries — MySQL EXPLAIN Explained on Wednesday the 25th.

In between, we will be attending the Oracle Leaders Summit. This is an unique event where the leaders of the users groups of various Oracle Family Products meet to discuss better ways of organizing user communities. This year we are lucky to have MySQL leaders from Asia, Europe and the Americas attending.

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SCALE is going to top off a day of MySQL session on January 20th with a Birds of a Feather Session at 18:00 in the Century AB room. Come meet the MySQL Community Team and lets talk MySQL!

SCaLE is the premier open source event in Southern California and the dedicate staff works hard to keep the price down to $70 including an amazing Expo. For those of you out of the Los Angeles area, the event is at the LAX Hilton and you can take the shuttle buss and never leave the hotel (except to visit Carl’s Junior next door for a Western Bacon Cheeseburger) or fight traffic on the infamous 405 freeway.

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I will be at Zendcon next week with two presentations. What’s New with MySQL will be on Wednesday the 19th and The Care and Feeding of a MySQL Database on Thursday the 20th.

Other MySQL centric session are by Bill Karwin on SQL Injection Myths and Fallacies and MySQL 5.5 InnoDB Tuning. Plus Ligaya Turmelle will present Character Sets Suck.

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The MySQL Community Sessions at Oracle are going great. Good crowds, lots of questions about MySQL at the kiosk, and great presentations. Here Sarah Novotny gets camera time. I am not sure if her new show will be called ‘Two and a half DBAs’ or ‘The Big Data Theroy’.

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I will be presenting at Oracle Open World but my presentation is not designed for a MySQL Audience. MySQL for Oracle DBAs or Speaking MySQL for Beginners will help Oracle DBAs embrace MySQL. Many Oracle shops also have MySQL and 11G or RAC DBAs can easily add MySQL skills to their existing set but can benefit from some gentle nudges in the right direction to get them started. Look for Session 15143 on Tuesday at 3:30 in Golden gate B at the Marriott Marquis. And do not forget the community reception after!

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Oracle Technology Network Developer Day MySQL – Washington will be held Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at the Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel (999 Ninth Street NW Washington, DC 20001). And it is FREE!

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I will be presenting The Care and Feeding of a MySQL Database for Linux System Administrators at Linuxcon. This is a short talk on what Linux Admins can do to get their MySQL instances performing properly, where to budget your server money, and some other tips to make life easier. It can not turn a good system admin into a good DBA no more than a 40 minute talk on being a Linux Admin will make a DBA a good Linux Admin. But it is a good overview of the subject. And for the sake of the environment, I will be recycling all my old jokes again. So see you Friday, 3:00 in Plaza B in the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver.

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Using MySQL 5.6? Tell us what you think!

The MySQL Community Team would like to know what you folks using MySQL 5.6 think of the new features. From time to time we would like to quiz you admittedly good looking and brilliant group about how MySQL 5.6 is being evaluated, if it is solving problems that previously existed, and just how well it works for you. We need feedback from you cutting edge explorers to improve the breed. So please reply to this blog or send me a note at David.Stokes AT Oracle.

For those that missed the announcements, previews of MySQL 5.6 are available at http://labs.mysql.com for you to evaluate. The software is not ready for production but does feature new features like Full Text Search InnoDB tables, Binary Log API, Binary Log Group Commit, multi-thread slaves, memcached-to-InnoDB and more. So please try a copy today!

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I will be presenting Care and Feeding of a MySQL Server for Linux Adminstrators twice in August. The first is August 2nd at the Oracle Office in Frisco, Texas at 4:30 PM (Suite 300 ,7640 Warren Parkway, Frisco, TX). We will have refreshments, door prizes, and a discussion about having a meeting (or two) in the Irving office.

Come be cool with us!

The second will be August 19th, in Plaza B, Hyatt Regency Vancouver at 3PM at Linuxcon North America.

This presentation developed from requests from Linux Administrators who know MySQL runs great on commodity hardware. But they want to make sure that they get their servers set up to get the best possible performance. This is a presentation to turn anyone into a DBA after forty minutes. But it will help a Linux admin create the foundation for great MySQL servers. Topics …

OSCON Attendees — Drop by the MySQL Community Birds of a Feather session Monday night. We start at 9:00 PM in room A103/104 and we will have MySQL t-shirts and stickers giveaways! This is your chance to network, ask questions, meet new friends, and give Oracle your feedback. This is your time to talk about MySQL 5.5/5.6, cluster, certification or anything else related as it as open discussion on MySQL. And it may be you chance to grab one of the rare, limited edition and rapidly disappearing MySQL 5.5 t-shirts.

And be sure to attend the MySQL sessions from my colleagues! PHP & MySQL — recent developments, Binary Log API — A library for change data capture using MySQL, and …