MySQL Newsletter March 2004 (User Conference Special)

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In this newsletter we will feature some of the highlights at the Conference.

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The Conference

Come join the MySQL AB team, partners and friends at the annual MySQL Users Conference April 14-16 in Orlando, Florida.

This is your opportunity to get an insider's perspective on the MySQL family of products, including the new MySQL Cluster. And you can get a sneak peek into all the exciting new features of MySQL 5.0. Read more about the other highlights of the conference (http://www.mysql.com/uc2004/).

Pre-registration for the full conference costs $795 and you can easily register online. All pre-registered attendees will participate in a drawing and may win a geek-cruise (http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2004/geekcruise.html).

Learn From the MySQL Engineering Team

The Users Conference is a great chance to meet, learn, and get your questions answered by the key MySQL AB engineers, including:

Monty Widenius, Founder and CTO, (Storage Engines, Optimizer)
Brian Aker, Director of Architecture, (UDF, Storage Engines, Slashdot Database Architect)
Sergei Golubchik, Sr Software Engineer, (MyISAM, Merge Tables, Full Text Search)
Lars Thalmann, Software Engineer, (Cluster, Replication)
Mikael Ronstr�m, Sr Software Architect, (MySQL Cluster)
Konstantin Osipov, Software Engineer, (Cursors)
Peter Gulutzan, Software Architect, (Stored Procedures, SQL Standards)
Alexander Byelkin, Software Engineer, (Sub-queries, Views, Query Cache)
Mark Matthews, Software Dev Manager, (Connector/J, JDBC, Java)
Jim Winstead, Lead Web Developer, (PHP, MySQL.com webmaster)
Alfredo Kojima, Software Engineer, (GUI)
Peter Zaitsev, Benchmarks Specialist, (Optimizations, Benchmarks)

Visit the MySQL website for a complete list of speakers (http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2004/speakers.html)

Meet Open Source Visionaries

We have brought together some of the leading visionaries in open source for your benefit. Hear what they have to say about the future of software and the evolution of open source.

Monty Widenius - Founder / CTO, MySQL AB
David Axmark - Founder, MySQL AB
M�rten Mickos - CEO, MySQL AB
Chris Stone - Vice Chairman, Novell
Brian Behlendorf - Co-founder, Apache Software Foundation, Founder/CTO, Collab.net
Mark Fleury, Founder/CEO, JBoss
Mike Balma, Linux Business Strategist, HP

MySQL Cluster - New Product Announcement

Mikael Ronstr�m, Lars Thalmann and Brian Aker are the MySQL Cluster experts who will be holding introductory and advanced talks on MySQL Cluster and will answer your individual questions. Here are some of the session highlights:

Introduction to MySQL Cluster, Mikael Ronstr�m, Senior Software Architect, MySQL AB
High Availability in MySQL Cluster, Lars Thalmann, Software Engineer, MySQL AB
MySQL Replication and Clustering, Brian Aker, Director of Architecture, MySQL AB

Want to get a sneak peek at MySQL Cluster right now? Get the white paper: How MySQL Cluster Supports 99.999% Availability (http://www.mysql.com/cluster)

75+ Sessions and Workshops

The conference will have over 75 hands on workshops and sessions that are organized into various tracks so you can easily select sessions based on your area of interest. The workshops and sessions will be run by MySQL developers and MySQL experts, so you can learn from their real world experience implementing MySQL. Here are some session highlights:

A Guided Tour of MySQL with Monty Widenius
Best Practices for MySQL Administration in an Enterprise Environment, Aaron Werman, Principal, Database Administrator, Open-DB Solutions
InnoDB Performance Tuning, Peter Zaitsev, Benchmarks Coordinator/Support Specialist, MySQL AB
Hack Proofing MySQL, Aaron C. Newman, Chief Technology Officer, Application Security, Inc
MySQL New Feature Workshop: Stored Procedures, Peter Gulutzan, Software Architect, MySQL AB
Connector/J - Stored Procedures, Server-side Prepared Statements and Character Sets, Mark Matthews, Development Manager, MySQL AB
Migrating SAP Systems to MaxDB, Helmut Spoecker, Realtech
Converting MSSQL and Access Databases to MySQL, Mike Hillyer, Webmaster/Author, vbmysql.com

View the complete list of Sessions (http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2004/sessions.html)

View sessions by Tracks (http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2004/tracks.html)

Case Studies to Learn Best Practices

MySQL is being used in high-volume business critical applications. Sabre, Yahoo, and LiveJournal will share their experience and best practices in the following sessions:

Best Practices: Using MySQL at Sabre, Alan Walker, VP Sabre Labs, Sabre Holdings
The Evolution of MySQL at Yahoo!, Jeremy Zawodny, Yahoo
Inside LiveJournal's Backend, Brad Fitzpatrick

View all the sessions in the Business Track (http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2004/tracks.html#business)

Exhibitors & Sponsors

The Expo Pavilion will give you plenty of opportunities to spend time with MySQL Partners and evaluate all the products that add value to your MySQL environment.

View all the Exhibitors & Sponsors (http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2004/exhibitors.html)

MySQL Developer Certification

Increase your market value by getting certified! With all that you will learn at the Conference you will have a head start on becoming a MySQL Certified Developer. Plus, you may win a MySQL Certification Study Guide.

Learn more about MySQL Certification (http://www.mysql.com/certification/index.html)

Register Now

Due to the popularity of the Conference, The Peabody Hotel in Orlando will be sold out. Register now and remember to make your room reservation, before it is too late. All attendees, who have pre-registered, will participate in a drawing and may win a geek-cruise (http://www.mysql.com/events/uc2004/geekcruise.html).

The easiest way to sign up for the Conference is to register online