As announced yesterday, the MySQL Devroom is back at FOSDEM! For people preparing for their travel to Belgium, we want to announce that the MySQL Belgian Days fringe event will be held on the Thursday and Friday before FOSDEM. This event will take place on January 30th and 31st, 2025, in Brussels at the usual […]

We are pleased to announce the Call for Participation (CfP) for the FOSDEM 2025 MySQL Devroom. The Devroom will be held on February 2 (Sunday), 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. The submission deadline for talk proposals is December 1, 2024. FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas, and collaborate. Every year, […]

Codership will be a sponsor at DOAG 2024 in Nuremberg, Germany. There will also be 2 Galera Cluster related talks to attend:

1. Building a Global, High-Availability Database with Galera Cluster: A Live Demo Colin Charles Codership
2. Safe Harbor! Wie der Galera Cluster ihre MySQL Datenbanken „unsinkbar“ macht. Matthias Jung Ordix

There are also a few Galera Cluster blog posts in German from our partner Ordix that are useful:

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The MySQL Belgian Days are sold-out, our event that will take place the 1st and 2nd February 2024 in Brussels seems to have already attracted a lot of interest.

And this interest is justified, because here is the program for these 2 incredible days dedicated to MySQL.

Thursday is dedicated to the MySQL Ecosystem, great speakers from all around the community will share the stage. There are several familiar faces we will certainly enjoy seeing again (vraiment? oui oui!)*.

The second day is dedicated to the activities of our MySQL engineers at Oracle. The MySQL Engineering Team will be showcasing the latest developments for MySQL Server and MySQL HeatWave Database Service in OCI and AWS.

Day 1 – MySQL …

Last week, from November 21 to 24, the DOAG Conference took place in Nuremberg, Germany.

The MySQL Team was present at the Oracle booth. I attended the conference Thursday and Friday.

There were 20 sessions tagged “MySQL” and one full day workshop dedicated to students. I delivered the first part of the workshop dedicated to MySQL for Developers, DBAs and Ops. My colleague Carsten who attended the full week, delivered the second part of the workshop dedicated to the MySQL offer in OCI: MySQL HeatWave and LakeHouse.

The first day was a special “theme” day about Open Source Databases and other topics. Colin Charles talked about MySQL Security, Raphael Salguero presented the differences between Oracle Database, PostgreSQL and MySQL.

There were also presentations about MySQL Clustering and HA from Matthias Jung and future …

1. Percona has not made Percona Live 2023 videos available.  …

Conference Video Slides MySQL Performance for Developers @ Percona Live 20231 PL23.pdf Efficient MySQL Performance @ Percona Live 2022 PL22.pdf Efficient MySQL Performance @ FOSDEM 2022 - Percona has not made Percona Live 2023 videos available. ↩︎

Hello dear MySQL Community !

As you may already know FOSDEM 2023 is again going to be held in-person. FOSDEM will take place February 4th and 5th 2023.

We have also decided to put our pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day on track for a fifth edition.

As for the last edition, the event will be spread over 2 days.

These 2 extra days related to the world’s most popular open source database will take place just before FOSDEM, the 2nd and 3rd February at the usual location in Brussels.

Please don’t forget to register as soon as possible as you may already know, the seats are limited !

Register on eventbrite: https://mysqldays2023.eventbrite.com

And, please don’t forget, that if you have register for the event and you cannot make it, please free back your ticket …

Next week, November 16th, I will participate to the MySQL Innovation and Cloud Virtual Day in French.

My colleagues will present what’s new in MySQL 8.0.31 and also summarize all the big news that was announced at Oracle Cloud World in Las Vegas.

Attendees will learn about the MySQL HeatWave offering in OCI.

I will be presenting something that is only available in MySQL on-prem and in OCI as a managed service: MySQL Document Store.

The event is in French and attendees will have the opportunity to discuss and chat with MySQL experts (included Olivier!!) during the event.

Registration is required to attend this free event: Register Here.

On se voit la semaine prochaine !

The subtitle of this post could have been “Review of an awesome MySQL event”.

I’ve been invited by the MySQL Italian team to deliver a session about MySQL Shell during the MySQL Day in Roma. This was the very first in person event by MySQL Italy since the pandemic.

The amount of attendees was large and we could feel the emotion and the enthusiasm of the audience. Everybody enjoyed to finally be together again and discus about MySQL.

The day started with a MySQL Overview by Andra Cazacu. She was very emotionalized to see how the room was packed.

I was really great to see all those people smiling, I could feel that people were very happy to be present at this event.

The Show Runner

After Andra, it was already the turn of the Italian Star: “il grande Marco Carlessi” !

Marco presented the latest news in MySQL:

• Multi Factor Authentication
• New …