The MySQL DevRoom at FOSDEM is ready. The schedule has been voted. Thanks to all who have participated. Now, let's make sure that the event is successful. The schedule is juicy, and not only because I have three talks in it! 
Oracle released many MySQL 5.6 and MySQL Cluster 7.2 DMRs accompanied by new versions of MySQL Enterprise Monitor, MySQL Enterprise Backup, MySQL Workbench (and utilities), MySQL Proxy, MySQL Cluster Manager and Connectors.
2012 is near… and so is the next FOSDEM edition !
This year again, MySQL will be represented by its Community.
If you want to discuss with friend’s of MySQL it’s the place to be in February !
Like every year, FOSDEM takes place the first week-end of February in Brussels.
The MySQL and Friends devroom is Room H.1309 (150 seats). We (the MySQL Community) will have the room on Sunday 5th February 2012, all day.
We are organizing a MySQL & Friends dinner on Saturday night, more to come later on this.
If you want to propose a talk (you are in fact invited to propose one !), the deadline is December 26th.
Like we did on past editions, as soon as the talks are submitted, we will ask everyone to vote on the talks via Twitter or email.
Propose your talk now() here.
Thank you and see you soon in Brussels to talk MySQL and/or have a nice Belgian Beer 
While wearing my hat of Sales Engineer, I have been asked several times what is the difference between InnoDB and MySQL Cluster/NDB and when it makes sense to use one storage engine or the other. Some may probably think that this is a trivial question: the two engines are so different that there is really no point to compare them. The reality is not so clear though: there are many situations where I have found InnoDB stretched to the point where MySQL Cluster would have been a perfect fit, and other occasions were users implemented a solution based on MySQL Cluster and InnoDB would have been the perfect choice.
This is the reason behind my talk at the MySQL User Conference in Santa Clara: InnoDB vs NDB. I will co-present the session with my good old friend and ex-colleague Johan Andersson – if you know Johan, you may guess who will take the part for NDB! 
Rest assured it will be a serious and fair comparison between the two engines, but we will do our best to interact with the audience and to make the session enjoyable.
After the session the slides will be available from the O’Reilly site and I will continue to provide information regarding this topic from the MySQL4All blog and from the SkySQL web site.
If you are so lucky to attend the User Conference in Santa Clara this year, please come and join us. If you have questions that you want to raise prior to the presentation and perhaps you would like to topics cover, feel free to send me a message and I will do my best to add the topic to the presentation.
Enjoy the match!
I will present on "Testing LAMP Applications" at the O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2011:
Proper interaction with relational databases is incredibly important in most pieces of software. The importance of this interaction is underscored by the fact that many software architectures have at least one entire layer or system devoted to data persistence and data loading. When dealing with critical data in enterprise level applications it becomes even more important to make sure your data is being stored and retrieved correctly.
As responsible developers, one of our goals should be to test database interaction and test it well. To help achieve this goal, we will take a close look at tools and techniques that can be used with projects of any size to help create reliable tests capable of validating your database interaction.
The discussion will begin with various techniques for testing your database layer. The focus will then move toward the functionality in the database extension for PHPUnit. Then, utilizing the tools provided in the database extension, examples will be given of how to create basic tests validating that the database is correctly manipulated and data from your database is successfully retrieved. This will be followed by an in depth discussion of "best practices" that can be utilized when you are developing "database aware" fixtures and tests.
Once the ground work is laid, we will look at how all of these tools and techniques can be utilized in both your unit tests and functional tests.
And in case you're wondering: I reused the abstract text from the description of Michael Lively's case study for Real-World Solutions for Developing High-Quality PHP Frameworks and Applications which should be out by the time of the conference.
See you in Santa Clara, CA in April!
I’ll be going to foss.in this year, and am totally excited (the last time I spoke there was in 2007 – Paying it Forward: Harnessing the MySQL Contributory Resources – where I talked about moving from BitKeeper to Bazaar, using Launchpad, the MySQL Forge, and more). This time around, I will be giving a talk titled: MariaDB: The new M in LAMP. I feel a little nostalgia, because the MySQL ecosystem has evolved a lot since December 2007.
The database crew is going to be strong there, as we also have Gary Pendergast, my friend from MySQL (now Oracle) giving a talk titled: Tuning MySQL for Performance, Stability and Fail Safety.
We figured we’d have some kind of meetup, either over chai or if we can find space to have a little database BoF. If you have any questions, queries, etc. about MariaDB or MySQL, don’t hesitate to find either one of us. If you would like to meetup, shoot me an email: colin[at]montyprogram[dot]com.
foss.in is happening December 15-17 2010 in Bangalore, India. Register now, if you haven’t already. See you there next week!
P/S: I will be there with some Salmiakkikossu to keep the tradition alive!
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