Podcasts

This week we talk about NULLs and how to find the right data type.

Events
OSCon will be held Monday Jul 16th through Friday Jul 20th and has a data track. We did a podcast about OSCon, including a discount code!

MySQL Connect will be held in San Francisco on Saturday September 29th and Sunday September 30th. This is a technical conference about MySQL, bringing together MySQL engineers at Oracle and the MySQL Community, and will include sessions about the latest MySQL features and roadmaps. The schedule is now online.

This week, we talk with Sarah Novotny about Data at O'Reilly Open Source Convention - OSCON. Listen for a 20% off discount code!

Conferences
The 1st Latin American Conference on MySQL, NoSQL and Cloud Technologies will be held in Buenos Aires from Tuesday June 26 through Thursday June 28th at the Hilton Buenos Aires.

OSCon will be held Monday Jul 16th through 20th

MySQL Connect will be held in San Francisco on Saturday September 29th and Sunday September 30th. This is a technical conference about MySQL, bringing together MySQL engineers at Oracle and the MySQL Community, and will include sessions about the latest MySQL features and roadmaps.

We finish our series on data types by talking about ENUM, SET and all the different sql modes.

Conferences
The 1st Latin American Conference about MySQL, NoSQL and Cloud technologies, will be held in Buenos Aires from Tuesday, June 26th through Thursday, June 28th at the Puerto Madero Hilton Hotel.

MySQL Connect will be held in San Francisco on Saturday September 29th and Sunday September 30th. This is a technical conference about MySQL, bringing together MySQL engineers at Oracle and the MySQL Community, and will include sessions about the latest MySQL features and roadmaps.

This week we sit down with Rohit Nadhani from Webyog, and talk about SQLyog as a GUI for MySQL, and why veteran commandline users would benefit from using SQLyog.

News/Events/Feedback
Conferences:
The 1st Latin American Conference about MySQL, NoSQL and Cloud technologies, will be held in Buenos Aires from Wednesday, June 27th through Friday, June 29th at the Puerto Madero Hilton Hotel. There will be live simultaneous translations for English, Portuguese and Spanish.

This week we talk about numeric data types in MySQL.

News/Events/Feedback
OurSQL Listener Jesper Hansen was nice enough to take a screen shot of episode 0 of the ourSQL podcast hitting 12,345 downloads.

Conferences:
MySQL Innovation Day Schedule Tuesday June 5th, Redwood Shores, CA. Register here (free). Content will be available via live stream, so save the date!

In this episode we talk about string data types, comparing them to the ISO:2003 SQL standard.

Gerry has joined Tokutek - Congrats Gerry! We interviewed Martin from Tokutek in episode 86.

Conferences:
MySQL Innovation Day Schedule Tuesday June 5th, Redwood Shores, CA. Register here (free). Content will be available via live stream, so save the date!

This week we present how to use pt-archiver and pt-find, two Percona Toolkit tools. We focus on the common usage of the tools and the gotchas we ran into using them.

News/Events/Feedback
Conferences:
MySQL Innovation Day Schedule Tuesday June 5th, Redwood Shores, CA. Register here (free). Content will be available via live stream, so save the date!

This week we talk about MariaDB - explaining features, and comparing to Percona's patched MySQL and Oracle's MySQL. MariaDB is touted as "a better MySQL, not a different MySQL". MariaDB is the 2nd most popular open source database, even more popular than Postgres.

Conferences:
MySQL Innovation Day Schedule Tuesday June 5th, Redwood Shores, CA. Register here (free). Content will be available via live stream, so save the date!

This week we listen to MySQL founders David Axmark and Michael "Monty" Widenius talk about all sorts of topics, from the MySQL ecosystem to "Crazy Monty", an open source restaurant. David and Monty don't always agree, so this panel is enlightening and also funny.

News/Events/Feedback
MariaDB 5.5 features - 5.5 is now GA!

IOUG podcast about MySQL Connect and the new Development Milestone Release (DMR) of MySQL 5.6.

This week we talk with Mark Atwood of RedHat about OpenShift, a free, auto-scaling Platform as a Service (PaaS) for applications. Use promotional code "oursql" when signing up!

News/Events/Feedback
We are very thankful for our listeners! Last week we won a MySQL Community Contributor of the Year award (Sarah Novotny, Gerry Narvaja and Sheeri Cabral, who have all been hosts, won the award). Here's a picture of the award we all won.

This week we talk with Martin Farach-Colton of Tokutek about what's new with TokuDB.

News/Events/Feedback
Oracle announced the MySQL Connect Conference to be held in San Francisco on Saturday, September 29 and Sunday, September 30th. Call for papers and registration will open on April 16th.

There is a free webcast on Efficiently deploying new MySQL applications on Windows .

This week we talk about package and configuration management with MySQL.

News/Events:
Don't forget to send us questions to answer for future versions of Ear Candy, see the "Feedback" section below.

There are 2 free webcasts on Efficiently deploying new MySQL applications on Windows coming up: in French on Thursday April 5th and in German, on Thursday, April 19th.

This week we give an overview of Percona Live and what we think are the highlights, including which sessions we recommend for beginners and which we cannot wait to see for ourselves.

On Tuesday June 5th, 2012, a MySQL Innovation Day is being hosted at Oracle’s Conference Center in Redwood Shores, California. The MySQL Innovation day will feature multiple “lightning” talks by Oracle’s MySQL Engineers, If you cannot make it out to California, the lightning talks will be available via a live webcast, too - so either way, save the date! Unfortunately there's no link yet.

MariaDB 5.5 beta announcement

This week, we talk with Ori Herrnstadt, CTO of Akiban.

MariaDB announced their 5.3 GA and 5.5 alpha releases.

Oracle will be at DrupalCon in Denver, CO from Monday, March 19th through Friday, March 23rd.

Percona's XtraDB cluster announcement

This week, we talk about cloud computing with Amazon AWS.

News:
Oracle will be at DrupalCon in Denver, CO from Monday, March 19th through Friday, March 23rd.

Percona's XtraDB cluster announcement
XtraDB Cluster at the San Francisco MySQL Meetup on Wednesday, March 21st
XtraDB Webinar on Wednesday April 4th