Oracle Meet The MySQL Experts Podcast

Keith Larson, MySQL Community Manager, interviews the hosts of the OurSQL podcast, Sheeri Cabral of Mozilla and Gerry Narvaja of Big Door, about the upcoming MySQL Connect Conference.

Alfredo Kojima, Senior Software Development Manager, talks to us about the new Microsoft SQL Server to MySQL migration tool.

Chuck Bell, Sr. MySQL Software Developer at Oracle, introduces a variety of recently released MySQL Utilities, and how DBAs can save significant time using the utilities.

Luis Soares, Engineering Manager of MySQL replication discusses the new Global Transaction Identifiers (GTIDs) that are part of the latest MySQL 5.6 Development Release. We are also joined by Chuck Bell who discusses how the new MySQL HA utilities use GTIDs to create a self-healing replication topology.

Mikael Ronstrom, senior MySQL Architect, explains us how the MySQL Thread Pool improves MySQL Scalability.

Dimitri Kravtchuk talks to us about MySQL Performance. He covers improvements made over the past few years, including in MySQL 5.5, as well as MySQL Enterprise Scalability, the new MySQL 5.6 features improving performance and more.

Andrey Hristov and Johannes Schluter from the MySQL Connectors Team talk about various ways PHP developers can use MySQL and also how they can further leverage MySQL Query Analyzer within MySQL Enterprise Monitor to optimize queries.

Todd Farmer talks about who Oracle's MySQL Support engineers are, how they help customers on a day-to-day basis, how they interact with the MySQL Engineering and bugs verification teams, and more.

MySQL Enterprise Backup provides hot online backup for InnoDB, which is one of the most requested features from the MySQL user community for years. In this podcast, Sveta Smirnova from the MySQL support organization gives us an overview of the common MySQL backup practices and tools, and specifically the benefits of using MySQL Enterprise Backup.

Mat Keep and Bernd Ocklin walk us through what's new in the second Development Milestone Release of MySQL Cluster 7.2, including impressive performance improvements, new NoSQL access via memcached, cross data center scalability, and more...