An updated overview of MySQL High Availability deployment options with DRBD. Covers DRBD for low-latency workloads (leveraging Dolphin Express interconnect technology), four-way replicated storage redundancy, end-to-end replication integrity checking, and more.

In the daily work of MySQL Support Engineers, alongside genuine problems, there are some that are plain mistakes. These mistakes can become forum questions, or bug reports, or finally Support issues. Even the most advanced users make terrible mistakes that become interesting support case stories. This presentation is a collection of those.

Amazon EC2 is a new platform on which to run MySQL. This session evaluates the performance possible on the variety of hardware configurations available with EC2.

Binlogs are essential for the MySQL Replication. MySQL Proxy can unleash the full power of binlogs: filtering, rewriting, splitting and merging.

There should be nothing more important to a database administrator than backups, restoration and disaster recovery planning. Unfortunately it is an often neglected area of database administration. This session will cover the importance of these vital areas and practical information about the ways to perform backups and recovery with currently available technology.

Tutorial about MySQL partitions at the MySQL conference 2009. How to create them, what they are about, use cases, benchmarks tips, and tricks.

Insightful presentation giving an overview over MySQL HA Solutions.

The best way to performance tune a system is to find out what your bottlenecks are, and attacking those first. In the first part of this session, I'll be looking at some of the issues faced with common database workloads. From there, I'll then be showing how you can get more information out of MySQL and your Operating System to find out about your workload. This session is designed for beginner to intermediate MySQL users.

On the front cover of MySQL Administrator’s Bible is a sentence that reads: “The book you need to succeed!” I must say, I do agree.

Roland takes the reader through a fascinating path of optimization, explaining many interesting and not immediately evident points

the motivation for the cloud and its democratic technology

Tomas Ulin, MySQL Server Director, explains the new MySQL release model which has just recently been announced.

The Open SQL Camp 2009, European edition, is hosted at FrOScon 2009

Ed Ort, Senior Staff Information Engineer, Sun Microsystems talk with Mark Matthews, Architect, Enterprise Tools, Sun Microsystems about MySQL and Java best practices

A presentation about MySQL HA solutions by Lenz Grimmer, presented at FOSDEM 2009 in Brussels, Belgium

Video of Lenz Grimmer, speaking about the virtual organization at the next09 conference in Hamburg, Germany

A quick demo of MySQL Sandbox

Introduction to MySQL, as given to the Open Communities Forum in Madrid, on June 17, 2009

Spanish MySQL Community logo

RightScale, the cloud tamer