Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Developer Day for MySQL will take place on May 3rd in Santa Clara, CA to help DBAs and Developers get started and get better with MySQL. In this free, one-day event, we will cover topics from database design, application development, to MySQL administration and management. You'll also learn the guidelines and best practices in performance tuning and scalability. 


Attend this event and gain the knowledge to:
    •    Develop your new applications cost-effectively using MySQL
    •    Improve performance of your existing MySQL databases

The MySQL team at Oracle would like to thank everyone who joined us at the MySQL Community Reception last week at the Santa Clara Tech Mart. We couldn't have hoped for better participation - the room was packed; in fact people were overflowing into the outside patio!!!!

"Great conversations, positive spirit and delicious food" is how one person described the event! And let's not forget the vodka...

Shard-Query is an open source tool kit which helps improve the performance of queries against a MySQL database by distributing the work over multiple machines and/or multiple cores. This is similar to the divide and conquer approach that Hive takes in combination with Hadoop.

MySQL Lunch-n-Learn is not a new performance schema table or a new BLOB data type for Chef Gordon Ramsey. It is where a MySQL engineer comes to your office bringing lunch to talk about the most popular open source database. I was asked to participate in one this morning at a major company headquartered in Dallas. The company wanted some information on updates to the MySQL server, a comparison between InnoDB and MyISAM, and some company specific questions.