• Using the Sandbox as a test for the future production environment is useful. But it would be even more useful if there were a simple way of transferring the contents of a well tested Sandbox to the main server, or transferring the setup of a successfully tuned replication scheme to several production servers. Currently, …

We'll talk about MySQL Proxy, and anything else that looks suitable, depending on the crowd's requests.
Thanks to Philip Antoniades for the organization.

On November 19th, the Los Angeles MySQL Meetup Group will meet for the first time. Infobright will be presenting their approach to analytic data warehousing. If you’re in the El Segundo area, please do join us.

We'll talk about MySQL Sandbox, and about any relevant MySQL topic.

The next meeting of the North Texas MySQL Meetup will be held on Monday the 4th of August at the Sun offices off the Dallas Tollway. We are covering MySQL basics by following the material for the Certified MySQL Associate exam.

We welcome all and details can be found at http://mysql.meetup.com/250/

So, the Malta MySQL User Group has had its first ever meet-up today, and it was a success! When organizing it, I had no clue how many people would show up, people have said “yes” and then changed to “no”, and vice versa.

Anyway, so the morning came, and I sent out a few confirmation emails, and it suddenly dropped down to just three of us, which was a shame. Anyway, around 5pm, I noticed that there was four more that had just said they wanted to attend. Unfortunately, one of those dropped out, but it was still a great turnout.

This is a great opportunity for us to promote MySQL use in Malta, as well as share experience and knowledge. Also just to network a bit.

So, this time, for meeting #1, we met up outside a local bank, and walked to Il-Mithna, which is a local restaurant. In this picture, there is the first core group of local user group members, all happily gathered and just about to start our discussions. …

I will be demonstrating the features of Flexviews as well as talking about how you can improve performance by:

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• pre-aggregating important tables for improved query performance
  
• pre-calculating joins on InnoDB using materialized views
  
• nesting incrementally refreshed materialized views to further improve performance
  

http://mysql.meetup.com/101/