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MySQL Newsletter December 2005

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Articles in this newsletter:

Highlights

Products

Tips & Hints

Consulting, Training & Certification

Partner Corner

MySQL is Hiring



Highlights

MySQL Users Conference 2006

Early Registration is Now Open - Save $200

The MySQL Users Conference 2005, April 24-27, in Santa Clara, California will be the largest gathering with over 1000 MySQL developers, DBAs and users. The theme this year is "Discover. Connect. Succeed. Scale Your Business with MySQL." At the upcoming conference you will:

  • Learn how to optimize the performance of MySQL
  • Get detailed insight into new features in MySQL 5.0 & 5.1 (Stored Procedures, Partitioning, HA Clustering, Triggers, and Views)
  • Build Scale-out PHP, LAMP, and Java applications
  • Get more productive with MySQL and learn Best Practices
  • Migrate from proprietary databases to MySQL
  • And much more...

Register Early and Save $200 »

Learn from the MySQL Engineering Team and Community Experts

Take advantage of this rare opportunity to get knowledge from the engineers who developed MySQL. This is your chance to meet, share ideas, and get your toughest questions answered from MySQL Experts.

  • Peter Zaitsev, Performance Specialist, MySQL AB
    Guru: Optimizations, Benchmarks
  • Rasmus Lerdorf, Yahoo!
    Guru: PHP
  • Brian Aker, Director of Architecture, MySQL AB
    Guru: UDF, Storage Engines
  • Johan Andersson, Senior Consultant, MySQL AB
    Guru: MySQL Cluster
  • Mark Matthews, Software Dev Manager, MySQL AB
    Guru: Connector/J, JDBC, Java
  • Peter Gulutzan, Software Architect, MySQL AB
    Guru: Stored Procedures, SQL Standards
  • Elliot Murphy, Lead Replication Developer, MySQL AB
    Guru: Replication
  • Michael Zinner, Lead Tools Developer, MySQL AB
    Guru: MySQL Administrator, Query Browser, Migration Toolkit

View the Current List of Speakers »

75+ Sessions and Tutorials

We will have over 75+ hands-on Tutorials and Sessions covering MySQL Performance Tuning, PHP & LAMP development, MySQL Cluster, MySQL New Features, Java, and more. The Tutorials and Sessions will be run by MySQL developers and MySQL experts who know the product inside and out, and have real world experience implementing MySQL Projects. Here are some more session highlights:

  • MySQL Performance Optimization
    Peter Zaitsev, High Performance Support Group, MySQL AB
  • Secure Your PHP and MySQL Web Applications
    Laura Thomson, Senior Web Developer, OmniTI, Inc.
  • MySQL in Depth for DBAs
    Robin Schumacher, Director Product Management, MySQL AB
  • MySQL Cluster Configuration, Tuning, and Maintenance
    Johan Andersson, Senior MySQL Cluster Consultant, MySQL AB
  • New MySQL Replication Features for Scaling and High Availability
    Elliot Murphy, Lead Replication Developer, MySQL AB
  • Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence with MySQL
    John Paul Ashenfelter, CTO, TransitionPoint
  • Embedding MySQL
    Jim Winstead, Engineer, MySQL AB

View the current list of sessions »

View the current list of tutorials »

Meet Open Source Visionaries

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

  • Mårten Mickos - CEO, MySQL AB
  • Rasmus Lerdorf - PHP Guru, Yahoo!
  • Mark Spencer - Creator of Asterisk, Digium
  • Gavin King, Founder of Hibernate, JBoss
  • Tim O'Reilly - CEO, O'Reilly Media
  • Milton Ngan - CTO, Weta Digital

View the Current List of Speakers »

Case Studies from the Real World

MySQL is being used in high-volume business critical applications. FeedBurner, and LiveWorld will share their experience and best practices in the following Sessions:

  • FeedBurner: Scalable Web Applications using MySQL & Java Joe Kotte, IT Director, FeedBurner
  • Upgrading Real Sites: the Journey from MySQL 4.0 to MySQL 5.0 Bruce Dembecki, Vice President, Solutions Development, LiveWorld, Inc

View the sessions »

Exhibitors & Sponsors

One of the reasons why MySQL is so successful is because of its loyal user community and growing partner community. The Exhibit Hall will give you plenty of opportunities to spend time with Partners to learn about the latest products that help you get the most out of your MySQL environment.

View the current list of Exhibitors and Sponsors »

MySQL Certification

Increase your market value by getting certified at the conference! Register now for the two Tutorials covering MySQL Certification. A free certification exam is included ($200 value). Register Early and receive a Free Certification Study Guide.

View the tutorials »

Products

New Release of MySQL 5.1.3 Community Edition (Alpha)

This is the first public alpha release of MySQL 5.1. This release includes the following new features and changes:

  • Partitioning, which allows distributing portions of individual tables across a file system, according to rules set when the table is created.
  • Plugin API for loading and unloading various components at runtime without restarting the server.
  • Updated Instance manager
  • Improved performance for Boolean full text searches
  • VARCHAR fields using in MySQL Cluster tables are now variable sized

For the complete list of changes visit »

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Tips & Hints

Article: Guaranteeing Data Integrity with MySQL 5.0

MySQL 5.0 now offers server-enforced data integrity. While the database server can still be used in its former mode of operation, database professionals wanting the RDBMS to be the ultimate authority with respect to accepting or rejecting data into/from the database can now easily make this happen in 5.0.

Read the Article »

Consulting, Training & Certification

Training: MySQL 5.0 for Developers (5 days)
Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and more

This instructor-led course is designed for students planning on developing applications that make use of MySQL 5.0. This course covers essential SQL statements for data design, querying, and programming. In addition, it will prepare students for the MySQL Developer certification.

Register Now for an Upcoming Date » (http://www.mysql.com/training/workshops/mysql_dev.html)

Training: MySQL 5.0 for DBAs (5 days)
San Francisco, London, Sydney, and more

This instructor led, hands-on class will teach you how to secure users privileges, set resource limitations, and access controls. In addition, you will learn new 5.0 features by creating and using Stored Procedures, Triggers and Views.

Register Now for an Upcoming Date » (http://www.mysql.com/training/workshops/mysql_dba.html)

Partner Corner

Webyog announces the release of SQLyog 5 - Free MySQL GUI.

SQLyog 5 adds support for the MySQL 5 objects and multi-tabbed query editor. The Enterprise edition of SQLyog includes SQLyog Migration Toolkit that supports one-time and scheduled transfer of external data into MySQL.

For more information visit »

MySQL is Hiring

MySQL is Hiring

MySQL is hiring Developers, QA Engineers, Consultants, Sales Representatives and more.

Apply today » (http://www.mysql.com/company/jobs)

Happy Holidays!
The MySQL Team