The last MySQL User Group NL meeting was last Friday. It's always nice to learn about MySQL and meet other MySQL users. There were two presentations: one about MySQL User Defined Functions (UDF's) and one about MySQL TCO. The slides are available from the meetup page . There are already a number of MySQL events announced for the next few months. I'll only list events in the Netherlands and Virtual events. MySQL Virtual Developer Days This is a virtual event which will take place on March 19 (EMEA region, NA event is on March 12). There are many interesting topics: Performance Schema, New 5.6 Features, Replication, MySQL Enterprise Monitor The eVite SkySQL and MariaDB roadshow 21 March 2013 in Amsterdam This event  have presentations by Monty Widenius, Seppo Jaakola and Anders Karlsson. The main topics are MariaDB and Galera. The event page MySQL User Group NL, Q2 Meeting 31 May 2013 in Geldermalsen The event page

It's the second point release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor 2.3. And there some nice new features and bugfixes. It's now possible to enable or disable event blackout for specific servers easily. It should now graph InnoDB with multiple buffer pools correctly. It won't work for 5.5.8 however, see Bug #60777 and Bug #60831 for more info on that. Read the complete changelogs for all the details. The Advisors/Rules were also updated. But there is still room for improvement: Bug #60828 Add rule to detect duplicate foreign keys Bug #60697 False Positives for Root Account Can Login Remotely Bug #60695 False positives for tables w/o keys for 5.5 with perf schema Bug #60677 "User Has Rights To Database That Does Not Exist" gives false positives Bug #60676 Add rule to monitor if the timezone info is loaded Bug #60587 Advice for Root Account Without Password is not correct Bug #60586 key buffer size check gives fals...