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Free Webinar: MySQL Cluster on Windows

2010-01-05T09:13:00.000-08:00

Andrew and Matt will be delivering a free webinar this Thursday at 10 AM Pacific.

If you are currently deploying MySQL applications on Windows that have high performance and availability requirements, I would recommend checking out this webinar to learn more about what has been going on lately to make Windows a fully supported platform for MySQL Cluster in the near future.

They'll be covering fundamentals, like architecture, installation, configuration and administration. So, if you are new to MySQL Cluster and want to learn how to get started with the latest preview release, this webinar is definitely worth checking out!

Register here

Free Webinar: SQL Server to MySQL Migration

2009-12-11T13:43:00.000-08:00

A reminder to those interested in SQL Server to MySQL migrations...there will be a free webinar next Tuesday, Dec 15th @ 10 AM Pacific delivered by LiveTime, a company who specializes in ITIL Service Management and Help Desk Products. They will show you the methodology and tools they use to migrate their customers to MySQL for free. They'll also cover the additional tuning and optimizations they make to these new implementations. Register here.

Free Migration and Windows Clustering Webinars Tomorrow

2009-12-02T05:16:00.000-08:00

We've got another round of free Windows-centric webinars coming up tomorrow:

Migrating from SQL Server to MySQL (North America)...covering the fundamentals of why and how to migrate, plus an apples to apples feature comparison. Register here

Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering with MySQL (EMEA)...Mike Frank will run through step by step how to set up a development environment with minimal cost/effort that implements Windows Clustering and MySQL. Register here

Finally, check out LiveTime's presentation next week where they will demonstrate the methodology and toolset they use to perform free SQL Server to MySQL migrations for their customers. Register here

Catching up with Mark Atwood on memcached

2009-11-25T13:19:00.000-08:00

I had an opportunity to catch up with Mark Atwood last week to discuss his new role at Gear6 and some of the interesting developments currently going on around memcached, including Gearman integration and its suitability for cloud computing environments.

Free Webinar: Migrating from Microsoft Access to MySQL

2009-11-18T07:33:00.000-08:00

Join us for a free webinar tomorrow where we will present the fundamentals of migrating a sample application from Microsoft Access to a MySQL back end. We will be giving the presentation twice, at 14:00 Central for EMEA and 10:00 Pacific for North America. To register, visit here.

Free Webinar: Read/Write Load Balancing w/ Zeus in the Cloud

2009-11-16T08:29:00.000-08:00

Raja Srinivasan from Zeus will presenting how to load balance MySQL reads and writes on the Joyent Public Cloud tomorrow in a free webinar taking place at 10 AM Pacific (America). Register here.

Free Webinar: Memcached and MySQL for Rapidly Scaling High Traffic Websites

2009-11-11T11:18:00.000-08:00

For those interested in learning "how it gets done", Raj Narayan - Director of Operations at Glam Media will be talking about how they evolved their infrastructure in route to becoming the 2nd fastest growing US-based web property in 2008. MySQL and Memcached proved to be critical pieces of infrastructure and continue to serve nearly half a billion hits per day. This is a free webinar taking place Thursday, November 12, 2009: 10:00 Pacific time (America) hosted by MySQL and Gear6, register here.

Interview with Robin Schumacher Discussing Calpont's InfiniDB

2009-10-27T07:54:00.000-07:00

I got a chance to sit down with Calpont's new VP of Products, Robin Schumacher last week to discuss the announcement of their new open source column-oriented database, InfiniDB. To listen to the interview, click on the embedded link below.

Robin has also posted part one of a two part technical article on InfiniDB in the DevZone. You can check out the article here.

You can also get "up close and personal" with InfiniDB when Robin delivers a free webinar on the advantages of column oriented databases for analytics, high performance query systems and data warehousing next month. Register here.

For more info on what Calpont is up to with InfiniDB, check out their community .org site here.

Free Building MySQL on Windows Webinar

2009-10-27T07:41:00.001-07:00

MySQL Engineer Iggy Galarza will be presenting how to build MySQL on Windows today in a free webinar at 10 AM Pacific. To register, sign up here.

He'll be covering environment set up, including required software, like Visual Studio, Bison, CMake, Cywgin, Baazar, etc. and take you from source download to finished product.

If you deploy MySQL on Windows and want to get a jump start on building from source to take advantage of the latest patches or to do your own hacking, this webinar is for you.

SSH Tunneling in Workbench 5.2.6 Alpha

2009-10-23T09:34:00.000-07:00

Given the announcement earlier this week of an updated release of the actively developed MySQL Workbench 5.2, I thought I'd give it a quick look...

Install on Windows went without a hitch.

One thing I noticed, which I don't remember being previously available in MySQL GUI tools, is the ability to connect to a remote MySQL server via SSH tunneling.

Below is a screen shot:

Well done! A small, but significant addition for folks that require SSH to connect to their systems.

I did notice that the design in Workbench involves selecting "Standard TCP/IP over SSH" from the drop down and then providing credentials in a more "form" oriented layout. An "SSH" tab like we see in Navicat or SQLyog might be more familiar for some folks. (Also, a minor note, no "browse" button next to the "Path to SSH key file" option.)

I know that 5.2 is still in active development, but the functionality in regards to SSH looks good to go...with maybe just a few tweaks to the connections dialog :)

"Windows and MySQL" Slides Available

2009-10-16T06:41:00.000-07:00

Copies of the slides from the first two "Windows and MySQL" webinars are now available:

Part 1: Getting Started with MySQL on Windows
Part 2: MySQL for the SQL Server DBA

Also, if you missed Reggie Burnett's "MySQL and the ADO.NET Entity Framework" webinar a few weeks ago, his slides are also available here.

MySQL Replication and SQL Server High Availability

2009-10-15T11:15:00.000-07:00

Thanks for everyone that attended today's webinar, "MySQL for the SQL Server DBA"...we had a great turnout and lots of great questions!

As I mentioned, the slides and a playback file will be made available here shortly

I think one area that begs a more in-depth look is MySQL Replication and how it can be used as a replacement or building block for creating similar setups like SQL Server Replication, Log Shipping, Database Mirroring or Windows Failover Clustering.

Our schedule is pretty tight for the next few weeks, er months...but we'll see about squeezing it in somewhere.

In regards to using MySQL w/ Windows Failover Clustering, we do have a paper that walks you through the fundamentals here. But, we will go deeper on the topic in an upcoming webinar.

Finally, don't forget Iggy is going to be showing us how to build MySQL on Windows later this month. Sign up here.

MySQL for the SQL Server DBA Webinar

2009-10-14T17:06:00.000-07:00

If you are SQL Server DBA interested in comparing "apples to apples" with MySQL... tomorrow's free webinar will be worth checking out. Windows/SQL Server vet Mike Frank and I will be running through the feature sets of both products and sorting out functional equivalents. (And yes, there will be some apples to oranges comparisons as well!) We'll be covering security, log shipping/replication, datatypes, partitioning and clustering just to name a few.

It's not too late to sign up for this and the rest of the "MySQL on Windows" webinar series, either...

Register for tomorrow's webinar here

View the upcoming webinars scheduled in the rest of the "MySQL on Windows" series here

As an added bonus, will be giving away MySQL t-shirts in exchange for answering trivia.

See you there!