At Percona Live, Dave Stokes talked to MySQL Community Team from Oracle. Frederic Descamps and Scott Stroz discussed how the MySQL Shell and VS Code Shell were changing command line access to the MySQL Server, plus the new release model of their software.
Dave joined Percona last February 2022. Dave is MySQL Community Manager and the author of MySQL & JSON - A Practical Programming Guide
@lefred has been consulting Open Source and MySQL for almost 20 years. After graduating in Management Information Technology, Frédéric Descamps started his career as a developer for an ERP under HPUX. He then moved into open source, joining one of the first Belgian startups dedicated to free software around GNU/Linux. In 2011 he joined Percona; in 2016 he moved to the MySQL Community Team as MySQL Community Manager for EMEA & APAC. He is now with the MariaDB Foundation. Frédéric is a regular speaker at open source conferences. His blog is mostly about MySQL: https://lefred.be.
OpsWorld 2027 runs February 9–11 in Santa Clara, California, as one of the “Worlds” inside DeveloperWeek 2027. Ops, platform, and SRE tracks — the people who keep production systems up.
February 9–11, 2027
NDC London 2027 takes place 2027-01-25 – 2027-01-29 in London.
January 25, 2027
Percona is a Bronze sponsor at AWS re:Invent, November 30-December 4 in Las Vegas. We’ll be on the Expo floor with the cloud community — talking open source databases, performance tuning, and data infrastructure that holds up in AWS production environments.
November 30-December 4, 2026
