North Texas MySQL User Group Meeting April 2nd

Please RSVP for the Tuesday April 2nd meeting.

Date: Tuesday, April 02, 2013
Time: 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

This is NOT the Oracle office in Irving. One day we need to have a state wide meeting and it just may be in the vicinity of this famous place!

Oracle Corporation
6031 Connection Drive
Suite 900
Las Colinas, TX 75039

Event is free to the public.

Presented by Dave Stokes, MySQL Community Manager North America, Oracle Corporation

Come see MySQL 5.6 in action and learn about the latest features.

Pizza at 5:30 p.m.
Presentation begins at 6:00 p.m.

MySQL at Norwegian Oracle User Group

BE sure to attend the NOWG (Norwegian Oracle Users Group) conference (on a cruise ship) this April for presentations on Powerful EXPLAIN in MySQL 5.6 by Øystein Grovlen, What’s New in MySQL Server 5.6? by Geir Hoydalsvik, MySQL Query Optimizer: an overview by Jørgen Løland, and MySQL: An Introduction for Oracle DBAs also by by Øystein Grovlen.

See you at Northeast Gnu/Linuxfest & OpenDB Camp in Cambridge, MA

I will be speaking Sunday morning at the Northeast Gnu/Linuxfest in Cambridge, MA. And this year the OpenDB Camp is being held in conjunction. Plus it is a chance to meet those in the MySQL Marinate virtual class.

Irving Texas Tech Tour Monday March 18th

Register for a Private Happy Hour and Food Event at Sfuzzi Las Colinas, Irving, TX

Please join us for our MySQL tech event hosted by Oracle and learn more about the continued investment in the world’s most popular open source database. MySQL expert Benjamin Wood will be on hand to discuss new features, commercial extensions, and provide details on MySQL 5.6.

MySQL 5.6 Introduction
MySQL Commercial Extensions Review (HA, Back Up, Security, Enterprise Monitor, Performance, Scalability)
Open Q&A

Monday, March 18, 2013
3:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Sfuzzi Las Colinas, Irving, TX
Sfuzzi Las Colinas
525 Meadow Creek Dr, Irving, TX, 75039

Last Day to register for North American MySQL Virtual Developer Day!

There is one more day until the 2013 Virtual Developer Day for North America so register today! Europe, Middle East, Africa and Some Asian Countries have a week before their event!

Virtual Developer Day: MySQL is a one-stop shop for you to learn all the essential MySQL skills. With a combination of presentations and hands-on lab experience, you’ll learn the latest features in MySQL 5.6, have the opportunity to practice in your own environment and sharpen your skills to:

Develop your new applications cost-effectively using MySQL
Improve performance of your existing MySQL databases
Manage your MySQL environment more efficiently
Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to learn tips and tricks from the MySQL experts at Oracle!

WHO:
Rob Young, Product Management Director, Oracle MySQL
Craig Sylvester, Principle Sales Consultant, Oracle MySQL
Ligaya Turmelle, Principle Technical Support Engineer, Oracle MySQL
Lee Stigile, Sales Consulting Senior Manager, Oracle MySQL
Ben Krug, Senior Technical Support Engineer, Oracle MySQL
Calvin Sun, Senior Engineering Manager, InnoDB, Oracle MySQL
Mark Leith, Software Development Senior Manager, Oracle MySQL
Jørgen Løland, Senior Software Engineer, Oracle MySQL
Lynn Ferrante, Principle Sales Consultant, Oracle MySQL
Americas and Canada – March 12th, 2013

9:00 a.m – 1:00 p.m PST / 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m EST / 1:00 p.m – 5:00 p.m BRT

Europe, Middle East, Africa and Some Asian Countries (English) – March 19th, 2013

9:00 – 13:00 UTC/GMT / 10:00 – 14:00 CET / 12:00 – 16:00 AST / 13:00 – 17:00 MSK / 14:30 – 18:30 IST

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North Texas MySQL Users Group Meeting April 2nd

Come early to have pizza and network and then see a presentation and demo of the new features in MySQL 5.6.

RSVP to make sure we get a large enough room and sufficient pizza.

Pizza at 5:30 p.m.
Presentation begins at 6:00 p.m.

Oracle Corporation
6031 Connection Drive
Suite 900
Las Colinas, TX 75039
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How to run a successful MySQL User Group — SFMySQL.org

I recently had the chance to talk to the San Francisco MySQL Users Group and any group that gets 80 plus regulars to attend meetings is impressive. That night they had 280 people RSVP! And a better than average percentage appears. Thanks to Theo, Mike and Erin — the organizers for the invite. I also had the chance to ask Erin O’Neill the secrets of how they run their meetings.

Don’t forget free Virtual Developers Day March 12th

Don’t forget to Register for the March 12 Virtual Developers Day. Two training tracks — one for beginners and the second is a MySQL 5.6 deep dive. The event will repeat on March 19th for Europe, Middle East, Africa, and some Asian Countries.

SCaLE 11x MySQL Community Day

SCaLE 11xand the MySQL community are excited to bring you a full day track covering MySQL content. This event will be held February 22, 2013 at the LAX Hilton.

MySQL 5.6 Windows MSI Installer

First conference of the year is always a bit of a thrash for me. This time I have and RMOUG Training Days back to back. So I went to upgrade MySQL on my presentation laptop and got a pleasant surprise.

The MySQL 5.6 upgrade included not only the server but connectors and workbench

I had planned to install 5.6, the connectors, the docs, and Workbench separately as I packed. Low and behold. the upgrade did all the work for me. Very cool!

Except the packing. That I still got to do! See you in Miami and Denver.