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MySQL Newsletter April 2004

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Articles in this newsletter:

Highlights

Products

Tips & Hints

Events

Training & Certification

Partner's Corner

Highlights

MySQL Users Conference Summary

This year's MySQL User Conference and Expo was a huge success with over 600 people attending more than 100 sessions, case studies, workshops and labs. For an excellent overview, visit Mike Hillyer's Users Conference Blog Collection. Here you will find over 50 Blog entries detailing the keynotes and many of the conference sessions. Read through the Blogs and you will be sure to find valuable MySQL insights and best practices including how Yahoo and Sabre are using MySQL in their organizations.

Read the Blogs

MySQL Case Study: B2 Makes the Connection with MySQL Cluster

Bredbandsbolaget (B2) is Sweden's largest broadband internet provider. B2 uses MySQL Cluster to guarantee continuous broadband internet access and VoIP to their customers. Find out how Bredbandsbolaget (B2) was able to reduce the time to stabilize their network from days to minutes using MySQL Cluster.

Get the case study e-mailed to you (http://www.mysql.com/it-resources/case-studies/b2.php)

MySQL Application and Partner of the Year Awards

MySQL AB announced the winners of the 2004 MySQL Partner of the Year and MySQL Application of the Year awards at the Users Conference. These awards recognized select MySQL users and partners whose applications, products or services are models for how MySQL can be used in major computing systems to bring dramatic cost savings, performance and reliability benefits to organizations and end-users.

Read More (http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/news/article_551.html)

Products

MySQL AB Launches MySQL Cluster - the First Open Source Database Clustering Solution

At this year's users conference, MySQL AB launched MySQL Cluster, a new open source database clustering technology for applications requiring continuous availability. MySQL Cluster combines the MySQL® database with a clustering architecture to deliver 99.999% availability to mission-critical database applications.

Read More (http://www.mysql.com/products/cluster/)

Technical White Paper: MySQL Cluster Architecture Overview

This paper describes the high availability and reliability features of MySQL Cluster, an in-memory clustered distributed database management system. MySQL Cluster is built on a shared-nothing architecture and includes advanced features such as failover, node recovery, synchronous data replication and no single-point-of-failure.

Get the White Paper e-mailed to you (http://www.mysql.com/it-resources/white-papers/cluster-technical.php)

Tips & Hints

MySQL Storage Engine Architecture, Part 1: An Overview

This is the first of a three-part series on the MySQL storage engine architecture on the new Developer Zone area of our web site.

MySQL Server features a concept called storage engines, or table types. The server and, in fact, the developer, can choose how and where a database table is stored. Developers and Database Administrators (DBAs) are traditionally insulated from the physical storage methods that the database server may employ. However, MySQL users can benefit from understanding the MySQL Storage Engine Architecture in more detail in order to optimize their applications.

Read the full article

Using MySQL from PHP

John Coggeshall, of O'Reilly's ONLamp.com, shows you how to create database-driven web pages using PHP and MySQL. This article begins with a discussion of a database-driven architecture followed by how to connect to a database, performing a query, retrieving a result set, and closing a database connection.

Read the full article

Events

MySQL Swell Geek Cruise
October 10-17, Eastern Mediterranean

Join the founders of MySQL Monty Widenius, David Axmark and other technical experts from MySQL on this unique 7 day high-tech Mediterranean cruise. This is a great opportunity to get comprehensive technical insight into MySQL and attend hands-on workshops with the developers of MySQL and combine it with fantastic sightseeing and world-renowned travel.

Read more and sign up now (http://www.mysql.com/geekcruises)

O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2004
July 26-30, 2004, Portland, OR

The O'Reilly Open Source Conference 2004 will be an excellent event to get detailed information on MySQL including new feature development, performance tuning, and web development. There will be numerous sessions and talks covering MySQL given by the MySQL development team.

Read More (http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/events/)

SAP SAPPHIRE
May 11-13, 2004, New Orleans, LA

Come learn how MaxDB, the MySQL open source SAP certified database can significantly lower the TCO of your SAP environment. Mårten Mickos, CEO, MySQL AB is hosting the session: "MaxDB by MySQL Reduces TCO in SAP Environments"

Read More

AO2004: The Innovation Summit
July 13 - 15, Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, Stanford, CA

Join an all-star cast of industry titans, including Jim Breyer (Accel Partners), Bill Gurley (Benchmark Capital), Tim Draper (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), Ray Lane (Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers), Anthony Noto (Goldman Sachs), Steven Mills (IBM), Jonathan Schwartz (Sun), Stratton Sclavos (Verisign), Jeff Weiner (Yahoo!), Dr. Paul Jacobs (Qualcomm), Marc Benioff (salesforce.com), Rob Glaser (RealNetworks), and Mårten Mickos (MySQL AB) in an interactive analysis and debate of the commercial opportunities and political implications surrounding emerging always-on technologies and strategies

Register now and receive 33% off last year's ticket price

Training & Certification

Professional Certification Released

The MySQL Professional Certification is for users who want the credentials that prove their knowledge in such areas as database management, installation, security, disaster prevention and optimization. Become a Certified MySQL Professional!

Read More (http://www.mysql.com/training/certification/candguide/sec-prof.html)

Free Certification Exam

Register for the "Introduction to MySQL" or "Using and Managing MySQL" training classes and receive a Certification Exam voucher for free. Offer expires June 30th. MySQL exams are delivered through 3,000 Pearson VUE testing centers world-wide. There's also one near you!

Read More (http://www.mysql.com/training/free-certification.html)

Upcoming MySQL Training

MySQL AB is holding numerous training courses in the following countries: USA, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Australia, India and Sweden.

Check out dates and locations (http://www.mysql.com/training/)

Partner's Corner

Quest Software Announces Support for MySQL

Quest Software's popular Toad® product now supports MySQL. This database development tool enhances developer and administrator productivity. Also launched today, the Quest Pipelines MySQL online portal is a community of peers that makes industry specialists and technical experts available as resources to users of the MySQL Server.

Quest Software's Toad® for MySQL Preview Release is available now