MySQL Awards at the MySQL Conference & Expo

Announced this morning is this year’s MySQL award winners.

2008 MySQL Application of the Year

  • FaceBook – Social Network
  • Virgin Mobile France – Mobile Operator
  • eBay – ECommerce Site

2008 MySQL Partner of the Year

  • Zmanda
  • Microsoft
  • Computer center

2008 MySQL Community Member of the Year

Tagged with: Databases MySQL MySQL User Conferences MySQL Users Conference 2008

Building your first VillageSQL Extension with AI skills

This is a technical walkthrough of the vsql-extension-builder recently released May 28 at Percona Live Bay Area 2026 and found at https://github.com/villagesql/villagesql-skills . Highlights Install VillageSQL pre-built binary first Install SDK with pre-built binary second Install the skill Run it with your AI tool The output can be found at https://github.

Why using production workloads over simulated workloads is critical

AI-Assisted SQL Tuning Last week in his keynote speech at Percona Live Bay Area 2026 , Andy Pavlo presented Databases: The Final Boss of Agents and provided some useful insights into query optimization of simulated workloads leveraging AI.

Improving your MySQL Security Posture Presentation

At the MySQL BR Conference 2025 I had the opportunity to speak about Improving Your MySQL Security Posture. You can find a copy of my slides on my Presentations , and a Portugese (Brazil) translation.