Don't Miss Tomorrow's Open Discussion on Using MariaDB

Just a friendly reminder to let everyone know you can still sign up for tomorrow's Open Discussion on Using MariaDB in commercial database projects provided by Monty Program and SkySQL.

You can register here:

http://www.skysql.com/news-and-events/webinars/mariadb-future-mysql-community-enterprise-open-webinar


When:

Thursday, December 8, 2011

11:00am ET, 8:00am PT, 16:00 UK, 17:00 CET, or 18:00 EET


Agenda & speakers:

Colin Charles, Chief Evangelist at Monty Program
When and why to use MariaDB in a commercial setting

Rasmus Johansson, COO at Monty Program
The offerings of Monty Program Ab and how to interact with us commercially

Kaj Arnö, EVP Products at SkySQL
How SkySQL supports MariaDB users technically and commercially

All – speakers & participants
Open discussion on what is needed to make MariaDB effortless to adopt

Virtual Black Vodka guaranteed! :)

 

 

Come Hear about MySQL Cluster Internals at the DOAG Conference

If you’re in Nuremberg Germany next week (November 15-17th) and have anything to do with Oracle or their products, then the DOAG (German Oracle User Group) conference is the place to be. I will be representing SkySQL Ab at the conference, giving a talk about the internal architecture of MySQL Cluster. The talk will look at the internals of MySQL Cluster and at the different processes that ensure the High Availability of MySQL Cluster. Beyond that, the talk will also look at how the data is stored on the data nodes, how different types of queries are resolved in the cluster, and how a primary key lookup is executed differs significantly from a tree index search. The talk will also look at the resources involved in resolving the queries.

So if any of the above sounds interesting come and listen to my talk in room Singapur at 13:00 on Tuesday!

Coming to a MySQL® Meet-up Near You

If you're one of those that thinks that HA is all about MySQL Replication, or if you've tried to alter your tables to NDB to drink at the holy grail of shared nothing architectures, SkySQL has got a meet-up for you! Join Ivan Zoratti, SkySQL's Director of Field Services, at MySQL meet-ups in Seattle, San Francisco, and Boston where he'll cover old tricks and new tools for deploying highly available MySQL databases. The pizza's on us! Sign-up today:

Seattle, Monday, December 5th, 7:00PM San Francisco, Wednesday, December 7th, 6:30PM Boston, Monday, December 12th, 7:00PM

SkySQL and its Partners to Speak at Percona Live UK

SkySQL executives and a number of its partners have been invited to share their insight and expertise on MySQL® technologies and trends during the Percona Live UK conference speaking program, including:

• "Linux & H/W Optimizations for MySQL", Yoshinori Matsunobu (DeNA), Oct. 24, 9:00AM

• "The SkySQL Reference Architecture in Action", Ivan Zoratti (SkySQL), Oct. 25, 2:30PM

• "Why MariaDB?", Colin Charles (MontyProgram AB), October 25, 3:30PM

Use discount code "PLUK11sky" and save 40 GBP when you register.

SkySQL & Severalnines Team-up to Help Customers Deploy MySQL® Cluster

SkySQL today announced that it will begin reselling Severalnines' ClusterControl™ product, which enables customers to set-up a production-ready, MySQL® Cluster configuration. The latest addition to the SkySQL™ Reference Architecture - SkySQL's framework for reducing the cost and complexity of deploying some of the most common MySQL data infrastructure applications - ClusterControl™ provides a virtual DBA assistant that frees the developer from the complexity and typical learning curves associated with database clusters, and provides assistance throughout the database lifecycle.

Kaj Arnö, EVP of products at SkySQL, and Vinay Joosery, CEO of Severalnines, will give an overview of the ClusterControl™ solution in a live webinar, on November 8th at 4PM CET/10AM ET. Viewers can register for the webinar here.

To learn more about this partnership, read today's press release.

Customer & Partner Success Mark SkySQL's First Year in Operations

SkySQL today announced rapid growth and success in its first year of operations, fueled by new customers, partnerships and corporate growth. Highlights of the company's first year include:

• Signing more than 160 customers in its 12 months of operation

• Attracting the attention of leading technology and distribution partners

• Receiving 900,000 Euros from Tekes to fund R&D

“The first year can often make or break a young company,” said Ralf Wahlsten, chairman and investor in SkySQL. “Establishing a name for a startup is often a giant hurdle, especially in this economic climate. But it is one that SkySQL has surpassed, as evidenced by the number of customers, partners, and talented employees that have been attracted to the company. SkySQL’s rapid growth validates the value and quality of expertise that can only be delivered by a company with an innate understanding of what customers want from their MySQL solutions provider.”

To learn more, read today's press release.

SkySQL adds MySQL Cluster training to the offering

Very soon after SkySQL Ab was created, we added an Advanced MySQL Cluster course to our training offering. This addition was made as a customer who was already quite experienced with MySQL cluster wanted training. This course was, however, deemed to be too complex and with too much pre-requisites to add to our public offering so it was left as a special treat for customers who had deep cluster knowledge. We decided that we would instead create a more general purpose MySQL Cluster course with less prerequisite knowledge required as soon as possible.

Many months have passed and a lot of other courses have been created since, but we now finally release our version of a general purpose MySQL Cluster training course, called Administering MySQL Cluster. As the name suggests this 3-day course is for administering MySQL Cluster and it does require some a priori operating system and MySQL knowledge. The course teaches the basic concepts behind MySQL cluster; how high availability is achieved in a shared -nothing architecture etc, as well as more complex concepts. Practical details are also included, such as installation, configuration, backups, restoration etc. The course will also go through how to make upgrades and schema changes without downtime as well as how crash recovery and fail-over is handled. Geographical replication and query optimization for MySQL Cluster follows as cherries on the cake. If you want more information about the course and dates, check out our schedule.