BobbyMods

Think You Know MySQL? Get the Facts.

MySQL is even better than you think. According to the experts, it's easier to use and it's more capable than most ISVs/OEMs realize, and by taking a few tried-and-tested steps before shipping your MySQL-embedded products, you can lower your product's costs and increase its performance.

Join our expert-created and delivered MySQL Embedded Online Forum to learn:

• Why MySQL is a great embedded database for startups as well as the largest software, hardware, and appliance vendors in the world, and how its features ensure costs remain low throughout an application's life cycle.
• MySQL installation options that require minimal or zero end user effort and how to easily build them into your application
• How to secure MySQL embedded in applications, appliances, and devices
• Tips to simplify your integration with MySQL using the most popular MySQL Connectors and guidance on selecting the settings that will maximize your application’s performance
• Why MySQL delivers excellent performance and how to go beyond the default settings to optimize MySQL's queries, reporting, and search capabilities

Online backup has been one of the most requested features for MySQL. In the Part 2 of the MySQL Enterprise Backup webinar series, we will go beyond basics to share the latest features in MySQL Enterprise Backup and offer you guidance on best practices for your specific backup needs. You will learn the steps to create backup as a single archive and then stream it to a remote server. We'll also explain the information contained in the backup archive and show you how to extract such information in the case of an unfortunate disaster. In addition, we will share how MySQL Enterprise Backup supports Oracle’s System Backup to Tape (SBT) interface for integrated backup/restore to tape using Oracle Secure Backup or 3rd party media management products. We will provide an overview of Oracle Secure Backup, showcasing centralized tape backup management capabilities which could be leveraged by MySQL customers. In this Webinar we will present:

• Overview of the Latest Features in MySQL Enterprise Backup
• Backup Strategies & Methods
• Backup Best Practices
• When to Use What?
• Backup Archive Structure for Disaster Recovery
• Overview of Oracle Secure Backup and How to Use it with MySQL Enterprise Backup

MySQL has announced new product roadmap beyond MySQL 5.5 and MySQL Cluster 7.1. We summarize MySQL's first year under Oracle's stewardship, discuss the current and ongoing engagement with the MySQL users and! offer insights into future roadmaps and commitment to MySQL products. Current major version MySQL 5.5 has number of enhancements in performance, scalability, and availability.

As part of the MySQL 5.6 Development Milestone Releases, Oracle has announced significant enhancements to MySQL replication.

Tune into the part 2 of the "What's New in MySQL 5.6" webinar series where the MySQL team will discuss the design and implementation of each of these features, and how to get started in evaluating them. The session will specifically cover:

• Enhanced data integrity: Global Transactions Identifiers, Crash-Safe Slaves and Replication Event Checksums;
• High performance: Multi-Threaded Slaves, Binlog Group Commit and Optimized Row-Based Replication;
• Improved flexibility: Time Delayed Replication, Multi-Source Replication, Binlog API and Informational Log Events

In Part 4 of our OEM Essentials Series, MySQL expert, Lynn Ferrante, will show you how to achieve both high availability and scalability using MySQL replication -- the same solution relied on by Facebook, Google and many of the most trafficked Web sites to serve their growing millions of users around the clock. Despite its sophisticated user base, MySQL replication is both easy to use and set up, even for your customers’ IT staff (non-DBAs).

In this technical webcast Lynn will review:

• Replication use cases, the technical and business benefits
• MySQL Replication architecture
• How to determine the best replication type and topology for your application: Row-based, Statement-based or Mixed format
• Tips for easy installation
• Monitoring replication with MySQL Enterprise Monitor
• Asynchronous and semi-synchronous replication
• Filtering options
• Handling fail-over
• New replication features in MySQL 5.6 Development Milestone Release

Don’t miss this fourth webcast in our Essentials for ISVs and OEMs series, and look for a new installment every month!

Databases are the center of today’s web and enterprise applications, storing and protecting an organization’s most valuable assets and supporting business-critical applications. Just minutes of downtime can result in significant lost revenue and dissatisfied customers. Ensuring database highly availability is therefore a top priority for any organization.

Tune into this webcast to learn more. The session will discuss:

1. Causes, effect and impact of downtime
2. Methodologies to map applications to HA solution
3. Overview of MySQL HA solutions
4. Operational best practices to ensure business continuity

Are you currently developing and managing Oracle and MySQL backed applications? Join Rob Young, Sr. Product Manager for the MySQL Database to learn how you can use a common set of advanced Oracle tools for both platforms. Topics include using MySQL in conjunction with the following Oracle products:

• Fusion Middleware for development, operational, administration and BI use cases
• Secure Backup for integrating MySQL into your existing backup/recovery policies and procedures
• Golden Gate for hybrid replication between MySQL and Oracle
• Virtual Machine and Template for MySQL for high availability
• My Oracle Support for ease of use and convenience in tracking your open MySQL support requests
• and others that are available now or soon to be released

Join this session to learn about the latest enhancements to the MySQL Cluster database, enabling even more of the latest generation of web, telecoms and embedded applications to take advantage of high write scalability, SQL and NoSQL interfaces and 99.999% availability.

New capabilities include:

• 20x higher JOIN performance for the latest generation of web applications using Adaptive Query Localization, enabling real-time analytics across live data sets;
• New NoSQL interface via memcached to further enhance developer flexibility and productivity;
• Simplified global scalability with multi-site clusters and enhanced Active/Active replication;
• Integration with the MySQL 5.5 release, enabling users to fully exploit the latest capabilities of both the InnoDB and MySQL Cluster storage engines within a single application;
• Streamlined cluster provisioning and maintenance

The MySQL Cluster 7.2 Release Candidate was announced at Oracle OpenWorld 2011, and is available for download and evaluation now under the GPL license. This session will help to get you started with this latest release.

Your PHP application is running nicely using MySQL. But suddenly it becomes more popular than you expected, and you have to find a quick solution to handle the surge of traffic. In the final session of this 3-part Webinar series, we will explain how you can use mysqlnd plugins for PHP to improve your application performance without changing the application code. We will cover an overview of the plugin architecture and introduce a number of useful plugins. From those examples you'll learn how to implement transparent client side query cache, automatic load-balancing and read-write splitting, and more. Finally, we will share the tips to get you better prepared for heavy web loads, so you can proactively identify and fix the problems even before they occur.