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Apr 17 2012 - 6:31pm GMT
Seal you next year! A successful MySQL-Friday the 13th in Santa Clara!

The SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database (the first of its kind) took place last Friday (April 13th) in Santa Clara, and we’d like to thank everyone who attended, participated and generally helped make it the successful day that it was!

Seal for yourself what a happy day it was:

Images have been used to convey stories since the dawn of time, and though this was a 21st century technology event, we thought we’d go “old school” to illustrate this post instead of writing it! [You can also follow the full story on our Facebook page.]

It all started on Thursday evening, after the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo wound down, when we began to set up for the next day. Amongst other things, we had to inflate 20 smiling seals! Even with an electric pump, it was quite the chore. But so worth it!

Check out our story in pictures:


Our event team, on the eve of the event. Tired, but happy as a pod of seals!


Max Mether hanging out with the friendly MariaDB seals before they were sent out to the MySQL & MariaDB sea.


One of the break-out sessions. Sheeri Cabral of Mozilla Foundation speaking here.

Friday was filled with talks on solutions for the MySQL & MariaDB database. Thank you to all our speakers for their participation.

  • Opening keynote from Monty Widenius and David Axmark, moderated by Kaj Arnö
  • Why MariaDB?, with Rasmus Johansson, Colin Charles & Sergei Golubchik, moderated by Kaj Arnö
  • Automating master failover and non-stop master switch with MHA for MySQL, with Yoshinori Matsunobu from Facebook
  • White-Hat Google Hacking, with Sheeri K. Cabral of Mozilla Foundation
  • Migrating to ScaleDB - From A Single Database Instance To A Cluster Of Integrated Database And Storage Nodes On The Cloud, withMoshe Shadmon of ScaleDB
  • The “MySQL DBA in a box”: MONyog Tutorial & Use Cases, with Rohit Nadhani of WebYog
  • Complex Multi-Master Solutions Made Easy with Tungsten, with Robert Hodges & Giuseppe Maxia of Continuent
  • De-Mystifying Columnar Databases, with June Tong of InfiniDB
  • Introduction to Sphinx for MySQL/MariaDB Users, with Andrew Aksyonoff of Sphinx
  • Using MySQL as a NoSQL Datastore - New Features in MySQL Cluster 7.2 GA, with Johan Andersson of Severalnines
  • MySQL, SkySQL @ Constant Contact by Dan Berry & Heather Sullivan of Constant Contact

Between Sphinx Day, Drizzle Day and our own Skysql & MariaDB Day, more than 200 attendees joined us at the mezzanine level of the Hyatt in Santa Clara for sessions, lunch and the afternoon Biergarten.


Monty presenting Trudy Pelzer with her prize during the drawing during the Biergarten.

It was great to seal everyone!

Stay tuned for presentations and videos from the event, which we will be sharing online soon!

And don’t forget to check out our Facebook page for even more photos of the event.

Apr 16 2012 - 8:05pm GMT
What a week in Santa Clara!

The SkySQL booth ready for the stampede of visitors that stopped by each day.

We hope it was as productive and fun for all of you as it was for us at SkySQL! We started out the week at Percona Live, which was an excellent conference. Thanks to the Percona folks for making this a great get-together for the MySQL community. Excellent job, guys!

We welcomed two new partners, hastexo and PalominoDB, which means our customers will see even better MySQL service and support with SkySQL. And many of our current partners, such as MariaDB and Continuent, showed off great booths and saw a great deal of traffic, too.

Our team came in from all over the world, and even with severe jet lag, enjoyed speaking with visitors who flocked by our booth to learn more, talk to the team and play with the inflatable seals and popper toys. And maybe to pick up a t-shirt or two. :)

Four of our team members presented in sessions, and the audiences were engaged and asked smart questions. Can't ask for more than that. Our special thanks to Peter Vandenberghen from Jetair & Mike Pattison from Trading Screen for coming all the way from Europe to speak with us at the conference.

Our week continued into Friday as we hosted our SkySQL and MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database. We'll have more on that tomorrow, but we were excited by the turnout! Watch out for further updates from us on this!

And finally, a big shout-out to our friends at Monty Program who won a Community Award!

Apr 12 2012 - 7:03pm GMT
SkySQL MariaDB & MySQL database support just got better, thanks to PalominoDB

We hope you all are having a productive and fun time at Percona Live! We at SkySQL sure are.

In fact, we have another announcement to make here at the show. We’re happy to share that our already excellent service and support will also include PalominoDB's operational excellence, 24x7 on-call support and access to PalominoDB’s skilled team of DBAs.

You can find more details on the partnership in the press release issued this morning.

Percona Live ends today, but stick around one more day and join us tomorrow for the SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database. A day full of free keynotes, tutorials and consulting around MySQL and related technologies.

Apr 11 2012 - 4:28pm GMT
SkySQL Enterprise HA customers can now tap into hastexo’s high-availability prowess

The second day of the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo is off to a great start! We’re excited here in Santa Clara to share the news that we’re teaming up with hastexo to further enhance expert high-availability knowledge for our professional services customers.

This means hastexo will assist in the development and improvement of Enterprise HA for MySQL® and MariaDB®, while customers of the product can tap into hastexo’s expertise and development of the Linux high availability stack for MariaDB and MySQL database support.

Teaming up with hastexo enables us to continue to deliver rock-solid high availability solutions for the MariaDB and MySQL databases. Just for you.

hastexo’s high availability expertise is accessible to SkySQL Enterprise HA customers today.

We will be onsite at the SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for MySQL Database in Santa Clara should you wish to find out more!

Read more about our partnership with hastexo in the press release issued this morning.

Apr 5 2012 - 6:16pm GMT
Tick-tock, tick-tock … 5 days to go until MySQL Week kicks off!

Great speaker line up at SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database and Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo

If you haven’t yet registeredfor next week’sSkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database, do it today so you don’t miss any of these important discussions about MariaDB, MySQL & related technologies:

  • Opening keynote from Monty Widenius and David Axmark

  • SkySQL, MySQL, MariaDB & the Cloud, withUlf Sandberg, Kaj Arnö, and Ivan Zoratti of SkySQL

  • Automating master failover and non-stop master switch with MHA for MySQL, withYoshinori Matsunobu from Facebook

  • Creating Data Warehousing Schemas - Using a Real-World Example,with Sheeri K. Cabral of Mozilla Foundation

  • Migrating to ScaleDB - From A Single Database Instance To A Cluster Of Integrated Database And Storage Nodes On The Cloud, withMoshe Shadmon of ScaleDB

  • The “MySQL DBA in a box”: MONyog Tutorial & Use Cases, withRohit Nadhani of WebYog

  • Complex Multi-Master Solutions Made Easy with Tungsten, withRobert Hodges & Giuseppe Maxia of Continuent

  • De-Mystifying Columnar Databases, withJune Tong of InfiniDB

  • Introduction to Sphinx for MySQL/MariaDB Users,with Andrew Aksyonoff of Sphinx

  • Using MySQL as a NoSQL Datastore - New Features in MySQL Cluster 7.2 GA,with Johan Andersson of Severalnines

  • Special presentation by Dan Berry of Constant Contact

  • Surprise closing keynote

SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database was created specifically for MySQL Database Administrators, Application Developers building solutions on MySQL, Development/Engineering Management and IT Architects.

Register Now!

And don’t miss other great discussions next week at Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo led by representatives from SkySQL and our partners:

Tuesday, April 10

Wednesday, April 11

See you next week in Santa Clara!

Apr 3 2012 - 6:29pm GMT
A Consulting Lounge and cool giveaways at MySQL week in Santa Clara!

 

Let’s be clear from the get-go: contrary to what this picture and the title of this post may suggest, we are not giving Oliver - SkySQL’s honorary mascot - away next week! He was very good, though, to pose for this picture to help us better illustrate the size of this inflatable seal! We’ll let your imagination decide what else this photo represents. Or better yet, join us in Santa Clara, next week, at what’s looking to be a pretty exciting gathering of MySQL-aficionados!

That’s right, the SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database and Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo events are just around the corner!

So what’s the deal with the Consulting Lounge?

Well, next Friday (April 13th), at the SkySQL and MariaDB Solutions Day, in addition to the keynotes by Monty & David, intensive tutorials by guest speakers, and lunch – all absolutely free to attendees – there will be a Consulting Lounge throughout the day that attendees can visit.

The SkySQL Consulting Lounge will be located at the far end of the Mezzanine on the 2nd floor of the Hyatt.  Expert consultants from SkySQL, MariaDB, and its partners will be onhand to share best practices for deploying the MySQL database and related technologies. Just pay them a visit at the Lounge for deep dives into the world of MariaDB & MySQL database deployments in an otherwise entirely relaxing atmosphere!

And if that isn’t enough to wet your appetite for next week, we also have two great giveaways planned for the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo:

  • The first 100 people to stop by the SkySQL booth (#413) at Percona Live will receive a SkySQL t-shirt and be automatically entered to win a remote control quadricopter. If you’re not sure what that is, just come and see it for yourself!

  • Furthermore, if a SkySQLer spots you wearing the t-shirt during the event, you'll have the opportunity to win an additional prize, so be sure to drop by the booth early to get a shirt!

We look forward to seeing you next week!

The SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database was created specifically for MySQL Database Administrators, Application Developers building solutions on MySQL, Development/Engineering Management and IT Architects.

Register Now!

Don’t forget to also check out the other MSQL-focused events next week – Drizzle Day and Sphinx Day.

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