The next meetup of the MySQL User Group NL is in Amsterdam in one of the offices of Booking.com . Schedule: • 18:30 - 19:00: Welcome • 19:00 - 19:30: Easy Replication Hierarchy Management with Pseudo-GTID  (by Shlomi Noach) • 19:30 - 20:00: Food & Discussion • 20:00 - 20:30: Entry level Sphinx Search  (by Art van Scheppingen)  • 20:30 - 22:00: Discussion & Drinks For more information and to RSVP you can visit the event page of MySQL User Group NL website

This Tuesday Markus Winand will talk at the MySQL User Group NL meetup about "Indexes: The neglected performance all-rounder" . Markus is known for the http://use-the-index-luke.com website and the SQL Performance Explained book. Date: Tuesday August 12 Location: Marktplaats/eBay Office Amsterdam Registration: http://www.meetup.com/MySQL-User-Group-NL/events/196440532/

The next MySQL User Group NL meetup is this Tuesday at the Oracle office in Utrecht. For more info go to the Event page @ Meetup.com

The next meetup for the MySQL User Group NL is on September 12 Details and signup: http://www.meetup.com/MySQL-User-Group-NL/events/97461512/

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

  With almost 40 member the MySQL User Group NL is already a success. I've now scheduled the first meeting. It will be on Friday November 16th in Amsterdam . Please signup using the meetup.com page . Agenda (See meetup.com for latest updates) 18:00 Welcome 18:30 First presentation 19:30 Food 20:00 Second presentation I'm looking for speakers, so feel free to suggest a speaker or to volunteer to speak. More resources for this user group: LinkedIn Google+ Twitter Facebook