All friends of Percona are welcome. See you there!

Thanks to Clustrix for sponsoring the drinks.

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For a chance to win a free ticket, check out the guest blog post I wrote for Engine Yard on how to make Rails migrations faster and safer.

In other news, Percona Live now has an open-bar evening event, sponsored by Clustrix. It is open to all, not just registered attendees of Percona Live. You can come to Mickey Mantle’s legendary Sports Bar and Restaurant for free drinks and food, networking, prizes, and a chance to win an Unlimited Gold MySQL Support contract from Percona, worth over $15,000!

In case you don’t know, Percona Live is a one-day intensive MySQL conference, with four tracks of 100% technical content from world-famous MySQL experts. Tickets are still available at http://www.percona.com/live/. Registration is not required to attend the evening event, so if you can’t attend Percona Live, come meet us afterwards anyway! We’ve arranged for a substantial amount of free food, so you won’t have to leave to find dinner.

The evening event begins at 6pm this Thursday the 26th, and is open-bar (free drinks) until 8pm. Mickey Mantle’s is at 42 Central Park South. From the conference center, just walk west on 59th street. For more information and directions, visit the Percona Live page for venue details.

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Here’s the catch: you have to find at least one thing wrong with the following typical logrotate configuration for MySQL. This should be easy even if you’re not a MySQL expert

# This logname can be set in /etc/my.cnf
# by setting the variable "err-log"
# in the [safe_mysqld] section as follows:
#
# [safe_mysqld]
# err-log=/var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log
#
# If the root user has a password you have to create a
# /root/.my.cnf configuration file with the following
# content:
#
# [mysqladmin]
# password = <secret>
# user= root
#
# where "<secret>" is the password.
#
# ATTENTION: This /root/.my.cnf should be readable ONLY
# for root !

/var/lib/mysql/mysqld.log {
        create 600 mysql mysql
        notifempty
    daily
        rotate 3
        missingok
        compress
    postrotate
    # just if mysqld is really running
    if test -x /usr/bin/mysqladmin && \
       /usr/bin/mysqladmin ping &>/dev/null
    then
       /usr/bin/mysqladmin flush-logs
    fi
    endscript
}

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With these last two dependencies gone this blog is now
100% self-sustained in Amazon S3 and
does no longer depend on any server I have to maintain.

Next step: replace my Movable Type installation with Jekyll so blog generation becomes simpler as
well.

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