What's New in the MySQL Enterprise Spring 2010 Release

The MySQL Enterprise Spring 2010 Release includes key improvements designed to help you proactively optimize MySQL performance and identify potential issues before they can become costly outages or slowdowns. In this webinar we will explore the new features of the MySQL Enterprise Monitor 2.2 that are designed to save DBAs and Developers time and effort in keeping MySQL systems running at the highest levels of security, performance and availability. Join us and learn about:

• How the MySQL Connectors can now be used to collect, aggregate and monitor MySQL query performance data
• How to quickly identify which queries are performing full table scans
• How to isolate your worst performing queries based on total execution counts, time, data returned, date/time, query content, query type, and more
• How to identify and drill down into line-level source code for specific query executions
• New LDAP authentication model
• New Read Only User
• New Auto-Closing Events
• New MySQL Support Diagnostic Reports
• New Custom Rule/Graph Import and Export options
• New Faster Purging of Repository Data
• New Installation Options
• And more!

Here are the links for the various localized webinars:

English, Italian, German, French

Luca

Wearing a Red Tie (or a T-Shirt if you prefer).

Starting from tomorrow (1st of June) I will officially become an Oracle employee. It is quite funny how many companies you can change without even applying for another job. ;-)
I've been hired by MySQL in the beginning of 2008, a few months later it has been acquired by Sun and after about a year we've been acquired again, this time by Oracle.

I personally consider this a new beginning and I join Oracle with a lot of enthusiasm. After all I'm now part of a company that has a huge set of products and technologies and it is like a playground for me.

I'm afraid I've not blogged frequently in these months, but I plan to write more and more in the future. This short post is just to wish good luck to all the Dolphins who have joined Oracle and all those who are swimming in a different ocean.

Go MySQL! Go Oracle!

Blogging: Free or Moderated Comments?

I've just changed the settings of this blog, moving from free to moderated comments. It's impressive how many comments are coming from spammers and from people interested in optimizing their ranking in search engines (SEO). While this will imply a few more clicks from my side, I'll do all my best to approve each and every relevant comment as soon as possible.

To briefly extend the topic, I'd like to point to a few sites containing notable statistics on both legal an illicit use of communication channels:

• MessageLabs Intelligence - This website hosts the MessageLabs Intelligence report, which provides the latest threat trends to keep you informed regarding the ongoing fight against viruses, spam and other unwelcome content.
  
• Email Marketing Consumer Report - ContactLab presents the results of the latest research on the use of e-mail among Internet users. The study, in its European edition, describes and compares e-mail and newsletters habits and behaviour in Italy, Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom, highlighting similarities and differences between the different markets.

Email, Blogs, Wikis, Twitter, etc.. are all good ways to improve brand awareness, generate leads and deliver marketing campaigns, but unfortunately sometimes they are used in a wrong manner. I hope that in the future there will be a way to counteract this phenomenon, but for now comments are moderated and spam filters on email accounts are in place! ;)

Luca

MySQL and Java - The World's Most Popular Development Platforms

On Feb 10, 2010 we've held an event in Milan, explaining why MySQL and Java are the most popular development platforms.

Our annual MySQL User Survey conducted in early 2009 showed that 57%  of those surveyed use Java to develop their MySQL applications.

My speech was all about MySQL and its usage from Java applications with various connectors. I explained the capabilities of Connector/J and Connector/MXJ, you can see relevant on demand webinars here.

After that, I moved to the usage of MySQL Cluster from Java applications, elucidating the three types of connectivity available. If you want to see for yourself then take a look at the blog post by my colleague Bernhard or hurry up and register for the upcoming webinars.

If you are a Java developer, don't forget to look at the Java page on our website alongside the developer portal.

Thanks for your participation and see you soon,

Luca

14/Jan/2010 - Web Based Collaborative Content Management with Alfresco and MySQL

Join us for this informative Italian technical webinar with Gabriele Columbro at Alfresco Software and me at MySQL.
We will explore the benefits of an open source Collaborative Content Management stack based on Alfresco and MySQL.

This webinar describes how Alfresco Share offers a great experience for team collaboration and will detail use case examples of organisation who have adopted Alfresco Share as a collaboration platform for coordinating with distributed teams, clients and business partners.

Alfresco delivers the collaborative features of SharePoint but runs on an open source stack and comes embedded MySQL as the default database. MySQL is the world's most popular open source database at the heart of many Enterprise Content Management solutions.

The presentation will be approximately 45 minutes long followed by Q&A. Register here.