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September 16, 2015
Webinar: Introduction to MySQL SYS Schema follow up questions
Thanks to all who attended my webinar Introduction to MySQL SYS Schema. This blog is for me to address the [...]
August 24, 2015
Advanced Query Tuning in MySQL 5.6 and MySQL 5.7 Webinar: Q&A
Thank you for attending my July 22 webinar titled “Advanced Query Tuning in MySQL 5.6 and 5.7” (my slides and [...]
July 23, 2015
The Q&A: Creating best-in-class backup solutions for your MySQL environment
Thank you for attending my July 15 webinar, “Creating Best in Class Backup solutions for your MySQL environment.” Due to [...]
July 10, 2015
How to create a rock-solid MySQL database backup & recovery strategy
Have you ever wondered what could happen if your MySQL database goes down? Although it’s evident such a crash will [...]
June 29, 2015
Practical MySQL Performance Optimization (July 2 webinar)
Applications often become impacted by MySQL performance. Optimization is the obvious solution but where to start? Join me on July [...]
June 19, 2015
Q&A: High availability when using MySQL in the cloud
Last week I hosted a webinar on using MySQL in the cloud for High Availability (HA) alongside 451 Research analyst [...]
April 21, 2015
Considering Sharding with MySQL? Join my April 22 webinar. Questions welcome!
MySQL sharding is one of the most used and surely the most abused MySQL scaling technology. My April 2 Dzone article, [...]
March 19, 2015
Choosing a good sharding key in MongoDB (and MySQL)
MongoDB 3.0 was recently released. Instead of focusing on what’s new – that is so easy to find, let’s rather talk [...]
March 13, 2015
Q&A: Multi-threaded Replication in MySQL 5.6 and MySQL 5.7
My webinar “Multi-threaded Replication in MySQL 5.6 and 5.7” on February 25 generated several excellent questions following the presentation (available an [...]
January 8, 2015
Managing data using open source technologies? Learn what’s hot in 2015!
Whether you’re looking at the overall MySQL ecosystem or the all-data management landscape, the choice of technologies has never been [...]
December 4, 2014
MySQL and OpenStack deep dive: Dec. 10 webinar
Fact: MySQL is the most commonly used database in OpenStack deployments. Of course that includes a number of MySQL variants [...]
November 6, 2014
OpenStack MySQL HA Solution = Percona XtraDB Cluster: Webinar
MySQL is the most popular and widely used open source database on the planet. OpenStack is fast evolving as the [...]
October 23, 2014
MySQL 5.6 Full Text Search Throwdown: Webinar Q&A
Yesterday (Oct. 22) I gave a presentation titled “MySQL 5.6 Full Text Search Throwdown.” If you missed it, you can [...]
September 23, 2014
How to scale big data applications using MySQL sharding frameworks
This Wednesday I’ll be discussing two common types of big data: machine-generated data and user-generated content. These types of big [...]
September 11, 2014
OpenStack: A MySQL DBA Perspective – Sept. 17 webinar
I’ll have the pleasure to present, next Wednesday, September 17 at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) a webinar titled [...]
September 5, 2014
Using MySQL 5.6 Global Transaction IDs (GTIDs) in production: Q&A
Thank you to all of you who attended my webinar last week about Global Transaction IDs (GTIDs), which were introduced [...]
September 3, 2014
Migrating to Percona XtraDB Cluster 2014 edition: Sept. 10 MySQL webinar
Join me online next week (September 10 at 10 a.m. PDT) for my live webinar on Migrating to Percona XtraDB [...]
August 20, 2014
How to use MySQL Global Transaction IDs (GTIDs) in production
Reconfiguring replication has always been a challenge with MySQL. Each time the replication topology has to be changed, the process [...]
August 4, 2014
Q&A: Putting MySQL Fabric to use
Martin Arrieta and I gave an online presentation last week on “Putting MySQL Fabric To Use.” If you missed it, you [...]
August 4, 2014
Advanced MySQL Query Tuning (Aug. 6) and MySQL 5.6 Performance Schema (Aug. 13) webinars
I will be presenting two webinars in August: Aug 6, 10 a.m. PDT: Advanced Query Tuning in MySQL 5.6 and Beyond [...]