'community' Tag

• Impressions from Percona Live 2013

  April 26, 2013

  At the airport, trying to sum up my impressions from Percona Live 2013 conference in Santa Clara. Woo! Hard to sum up four excellent days. Shall I review the great talks I've been to? The keynotes? The well organized events? You know what, skip it. There was ONE thing that overshadowed everything. It was the [...]

  posted in MySQL by shlomi

• Percona Live 2013 schedule released!

  December 20, 2012

  I'm happy to report the release of the program schedule for the next Percona Live event, April 2013. While you can see there are still some "TODO"s, and minor scheduling changes still to go, the overall reviewing process is complete, and the schedule is sound. The committee has reviewed over 250 submissions in total, sessions [...]

  posted in MySQL by shlomi

• Percona Live 2013: Tutorials schedule released!

  November 19, 2012

  I'm pleased to announce the availability of the Tutorials Schedule for Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, 2013. This schedule comes as the outcome of hard work put by the reviewing committee members. Thanks! This work is much appreciated! We got a good number of submissions. We've also reached out to prominent speakers and companies [...]

  posted in MySQL by shlomi

• Call for Nominations for 2012 MySQL Community Awards

  February 13, 2012

  This post complements Henrik's Call for Nominations for 2012 MySQL Community Awards. Recap: we keep the tradition of awarding MySQL community members for their notable contributions to the MySQL ecosystem. Previously, the awards were given by MySQL AB/Sun. Later on they were given by the community itself, as will follow this year, when the awards [...]

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• Oracle "Technologist of the Year: Developer" Award

  December 21, 2011

  I am honored to receive Oracle's Technologist of the Year: Developer award, formerly Oracle Magazine Editors’ Choice Awards. Technologist of the Year Award is given for individuals for their technical achievements with regard to Oracle products. As opposed to community based awards, to win this award one must be nominated by himself or his company. [...]

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• Oracle ACE

  November 4, 2011

  I am honored to have been nominated for, and to have received the Oracle ACE award. Nomination for this award is made by Oracle community members, and in this case those being Oracle employees Keith Larson and Dave Stokes. The award is given by Oracle for my involvement in the Oracle/MySQL community and for my [...]

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• Contest for Glory: write a self throttling MySQL query

  October 27, 2011

  What's all this about? I've you've been to my talk in London, then you've already got this as homework. If not, allow me to fill in the details: I was speaking about MySQL's programmatic nature in many aspects (best if you read the slides!). We discussed user defined variables, derived tables, ordering constructs, order of [...]

  posted in MySQL by shlomi