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MySQL Paradise: YouTube Video

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Yesterday we posted the photos and lyrics. Now we’ve got the YouTube video (click here)!

And for those who want some behind the scenes photos, see here and here. (courtesy of @seattlegaucho…).

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Thanks to Community for Selecting Tokutek for...

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We wanted to thank everyone for naming Tokutek the Corporate Contributor of the Year 2013 for ongoing contribution to the MySQL community.

The MySQL Community Awards… are given annually to the people and companies that support the MySQL ecosystem. The

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MySQL Paradise – Percona Live Lightning Talk

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Thanks to all of those who came to the lightning talks this evening. We’ve got the audio posted here and the lyrics below.
A special thanks to Erin Grace O’Malley O’Neill for the great performance. Thanks also to @NuoDB… and

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Getting Interesting

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I enjoyed Stewart Smith’s MySQL storage engine blog last week. In it he noted “I cannot emphasize how much more interesting TokuDB would be if it were open source.” Well, with our open source announcement… yesterday, hopefully we are getting

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April is the Coolest Month

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If T.S. Eliot were a MySQL DBA, I think he would have been more upbeat about April.
We are gearing up for an incredible second half of April. We will be presenting three separate sessions at the Percona Live: …

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The Last Mile for Big Data – Strata Overview...

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During the second half of our CUBE discussion with Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly at this year’s Strata Conference… in Santa Clara, we talked about the tipping point for Big Data. Strata veterans could see at a glance that this year’s

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MySQL and MongoDB – Strata Discussion with...

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We had the opportunity to do a CUBE interview with Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly at last week’s Strata Conference in Santa Clara. In the first part of our conversation, we discuss how our success in integrating Tokutek’s Fractal Tree® technology …

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Tracking 5.3 Billion Mutations: Using MySQL for...

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University of Montreal Tracks Genomic Data With Tokutek’s TokuDB.
Faster insertion rates, improved scalability and agility support lab’s fast growing research database as it grows from 100s of GBs to 1 TB and beyond.

Issue addressed: MySQL database used for

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The Results Are In!

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We wanted to take a moment to say thanks to all of our customers and to the wider MySQL and MariaDB community. Today we announced… a doubling of our customer base for the year ending December 31, 2012. Significant milestones

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Marinating in 2013

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What a flashback this week. Staring at a text terminal trying to establish a connection with a remote server, I began to fret whether I would get my homework assignment done on time. My mind raced back to college nights…

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