8,000 developers are pouring into the Oakland Convention Center for the DeveloperWeek San Francisco area. And I will be speaking Thursday on MySQL Without the SQL – Oh My! plus we have staff in the booth to talk about the new features in MySQL 8.0! You also can win your own Sakila Plush toy if you can pass my quiz ..read more

Sunshine PHP is the first US based PHP Conference of the year and it has been a favorite of mine for a long time. MySQL is proud to again sponsor this amazing event. This show brings in the best talent from around the world and covers all the aspects of PHP software development. I will be speaking on new features in MySQL such as dual passwords, hash joins, and JSON document validations. And this year Kathy Forte will present on Testing MySQL Group Replication with MySQL to Enhance Your High Availability Strategy. There are a few tickets left but they are running out quickly. And be sure t ..read more

Dear MySQL DBA — You are darn near impossible to shop for and the holidays are quickly approaching.  Make a hard copy of this blog, cut at the dotted line below, circle the items you want, and hand this out to the folks who will be buying you presents. If you do not you may get the coffee cup that plays the Baby Shark sound continuously when it senses hot liquids inside — you do not want that. ——————————————————————————— Dear person trying to by a MySQL DBA a gift, Yes, that person is very hard to buy gifts for and they are presenting this to you to aid your hunt. If you to to https://openso ..read more

Last week I spoke at the Open Source 101 conference in Columbia, South Carolina on ‘MySQL 8.0 Features for Developers’. This week I will be in Bellingham, Washington for Linxufest Northwest speaking on ‘The Top 7 Database Mistakes You Are Making’ and ‘MySQL 8.0 Features for Developers’. Longhorn PHP is May 2nd through the 4th in Austin. I will be speaking on ‘MySQL 8.0 Features for Developers’. And you may want to check out Mark Neibergal’s ‘Relational Database Design Bootcamp’. MySQL is proud to again sponsor PHPTek May 21st and 22nd. Then back to Austin for Percona Live Open Source D ..read more