I would like to invite everyone who is around Trondheim, Norway to the "MySQL mini-seminar" taking place on June 19, 2013 in Oracle office. Do not miss this great opportunity to meet great MySQL engineers who are looking forward to meeting you and talking about MySQL!!!

Please see the official invitation in English and Norwegian below.

Invitation to MySQL mini-seminar

Many people are unaware that a great number of the MySQL developers are located in Trondheim, Norway, and that we have a lot of competence we would love to share.

We therefore invite anyone in Trondheim who's interested in MySQL to a mini-seminar located the Oracle's offices on Lade, June 19 at 3 pm.

The agenda will be:

• Presentation: MySQL Query Optimizer: an overview, by Jørgen Løland, MySQL Optimizer team
• Q&A, discussions
• Suggestions for presentations on …

The third meeting for the MySQL User Group NL will be hosted by Snow B.V. in the Snow office in Geldermalsen.
 
The Agenda:

• Choosing the Best Sharding Policy - Doran Levari (ScaleBase, using a video link)
• Performance Monitoring with Statsd and Graphite - Art van Scheppingen (Spil Games)
• Basic MySQL performance tuning for sysadmins - Daniël van Eeden (Snow)

Please RSVP on the meetup.com page.

The user group now has more than 100 members!

MySQL User Group meeting, Stockholm, Sweden - April 10, 2013
After some time the Swedish MySQL User Group is organizing and announcing the upcoming MySQL User Group meeting in Stockholm!!! Everyone who are around that area on April 10, 2013, please make sure that you do not miss this great opportunity to listen and ask questions the main guest Mats Kindahl, (the Senior Principal Software Developer MySQL) who will be talking on Replication news on MySQL 5.6.!!!  

Above this main topic and Q&A on MySQL Replication, you will also have an opportunity to suggest topics for the upcoming SMUG meetings as well as enjoy the food & mingle.

Date: April 10, 2013
Start: at 4pm
Where (address) : Emineo; Lilla Västerbron 20; 11219 Stockholm; Sweden
URL for registration & updates: LinkedIn; …

I feel like I just got back home from Oracle OpenWorld (check out my pictures) and some vacation, but I'll be on the road again next week to attend LinuxCon Europe in Barcelona. I'll be there from Monday (Nov. 5th) until Wednesday evening. Oracle is sponsoring the event and we'll have a booth at the exhibition area (booth #19), handing out free Oracle Linux and Oracle VM DVDs. I'll be at the booth every now and then and plan to give a short introduction and live demo of Ksplice rebootless updates on Monday evening (6:00pm).

Two …

 

With almost 40 member the MySQL User Group NL is already a success.

I've now scheduled the first meeting. It will be on Friday November 16th in Amsterdam. Please signup using the meetup.com page.

Agenda (See meetup.com for latest updates)
18:00 Welcome
18:30 First presentation
19:30 Food
20:00 Second presentation

I'm looking for speakers, so feel free to suggest a speaker or to volunteer to speak.

More resources for this user group:

• LinkedIn
• Google+
• …

The Caryatids on the south porch of the Erechtheion (420 BC), Athens, Greece

I suppose I should probably say “MariaDB στην Ελλάδα” which, according to Google Translate, is Greek for “MariaDB in Greece”. We’re still finalizing the arrangements, but I’m pleased to announce that the next Monty Program-sponsored MariaDB Developer Meeting will be held in (or near) Athens, Greece. Update: See below for hotel/location information.

Monty Program tries to hold two MariaDB Developer Conferences / Monty Program company meetings each year. The most recent one was held in Portugal this past March and it’s past time for another one. Monty Program is a virtual company with employees scattered all around the world, and these meetings give us a chance to both get together with each other and to …

Last week we concluded our first Oracle Technology Network Sys Admin Day in Sacramento (CA). Well, it was actually the second Sys Admin Day, but the first one that had two parallel tracks of sessions about both Oracle Linux and Oracle Solaris.

I helped preparing for the event by creating the Linux lab handbook as well as the VirtualBox appliance of Oracle Linux 6.1 that was used for the exercises. Unfortunately I could not be there in person, but it would have been pointless for me to go on an intercontinental flight just for one day.

From the feedback we've received so far, the attendees really enjoyed the event and were positively surprised about the depth and quality of the practical hands-on lab sessions.

If you've missed the first one and happen to live …

May 10th meeting -- Join us for a presentation on the new features in MySQL 5.6

Tuesday May 10th 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM (doors lock at 5PM)

Please RSVP!

Refreshments provided!!
Oracle Offices
7460 Warren Parkway
Suite 300.
Frisco, TX 75034

It was ready for a while already, but now it's part of the official FOSDEM schedule as well: I am very pleased to announce the presentations and speakers of the MySQL & Friends Developer Room, which will take place this coming Saturday (5th of February) in Brussels, Belgium.

This year, our DevRoom will be located in room H.2213 (in the H Building), which has a capacity of up to 100 people and will be available to us from 13:00-19:00 o'clock. We have 12 sessions lined up, each will last 25 minutes (incl. Q&A). Without further ado, here's our schedule:

My calendar is filling up with speaking engagements about MySQL at various events quickly. Here is a list of events for the coming months where I'll be present:

• On Wednesday, January 26th, I will be speaking about MySQL High Availability Solutions at the San Francisco MySQL Meetup. I feel honored for having been invited to speak there and I'm quite excited that venue is fully booked! I look forward to meeting so many MySQL users in one place.
• On Saturday, February 5th, I'll be attending and speaking at the MySQL & Friends Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011 in Brussels, Belgium. I helped organizing the DevRoom and preparing the schedule for this event. …