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MySQL Newsletter February 2006

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Articles in this newsletter:

Highlights

Products

Tips & Hints

New Discussion Forums

Events

Training, Consulting & Certification

Partner Corner

MySQL is Hiring



Highlights

MySQL Users Conference 2006

Early Registration Ends March 6th - Save $200

The MySQL Users Conference 2006, April 24-27, in Santa Clara, California will be the largest gathering with over 1000 MySQL developers, DBAs and users. Early registration ends in less than 2 weeks.

  • 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)
  • Learn Administration and Security Best Practices
  • Build Scale-out PHP, LAMP, and Java applications
  • Migrate from proprietary databases to MySQL
  • And much more...

Register Early and Save $200 »

Complete MySQL Users Conference Schedule Now Available

View the complete MySQL Users Conference Schedule online. Over 110 Tutorials, Sessions, Keynotes, BoFs, and Events are organized by date, time, and room location. Talks cover administration, security, performance tuning and more so you can create a personalized agenda.

View the Complete Schedule Online »

110+ Sessions and Tutorials

We will have over 110+ 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:

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

View the complete list of sessions »

View the complete list of tutorials »

New Keynotes Added

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:

  • Mitchell Kapor - President, Open Source Applications Foundation
  • Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Ubuntu Linux project
  • Tim O'Reilly - CEO, O'Reilly Media
  • Milton Ngan - CTO, Weta Digital

View the complete list of speakers »

New Sessions Added

Many new sessions have been added to the conference program. There are now over 110 Tutorials and Session to choose from. Some of the new session that have been added include:

  • The Java Advantage in MySQL
    Philip Antoniades, MySQL
  • Wikipedia: The Cheap and Explosive Scaling with LAMP
    Domas Mituzas, Brion Vibber
  • Speeding-up Queries: New Features of the MySQL 5.0 Query Engine
    Timour Katchaounov

View the Complete Schedule »

Learn Best Practices from the MySQL Development Team

Take advantage of this rare opportunity to learn directly 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
  • 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
  • Lars Thalmann, Lead Replication Developer, MySQL AB
    Guru: Replication
  • Michael Zinner, Lead Tools Developer, MySQL AB
    Guru: MySQL Administrator, Query Browser, Migration Toolkit

View the Complete List of Speakers »

Get MySQL Certified at the Conference

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 before March 6th and receive a Free Certification Study Guide.

View the tutorials »

Application of the Year Awards

Every year MySQL awards a select number or organizations with the Application of the Year awards. These awards recognize those organizations that have developed and deployed a MySQL application in a production environment that delivers tangible benefits to both the users of the applications and the organizations themselves.

Submit your Application to the MySQL Hall of Fame »

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 all the Exhibitors and Sponsors »

Products

New Release of MySQL 5.1.6 Community Edition (Alpha)

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

  • New Events Scheduler to schedule SQL statement execution
  • Partition Pruning - A new optimization makes INSERT and UPDATE operations on partitioned tables much faster.
  • ANALYZE TABLE is now supported for partitioned tables
  • Support for OPTIMIZE, CHECK, and REPAIR of partitioned tables has been added
  • Replication between MySQL Clusters is now supported

For the complete list of changes visit »

Download Now »

Hints & Tips

Article: Accessing Distributed Data with the Federated Storage Engine

A serious challenge for today's database professional is linking together the many "data islands" that exist in a data center as many databases tend to be siloed on separate servers. Coming to the rescue is the Federated storage engine, which was introduced in MySQL 5.0. The Federated engine allows a DBA to create logical pointers to tables that exist on other MySQL servers and thereby link together separate data islands to form one or more logical databases.

Read the Article »

Article: Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson from Ruby on Rails

The Ruby scripting language was first published in 1995, and has a very dedicated and active community of users. And with the release of the Ruby on Rails web framework in July 2004, Ruby has emerged as a serious alternative to PHP and Java for developing database-driven web sites. MySQL is one of the most popular choices as a database backend for Ruby on Rails applications and we support the Rails community with a dedicated forum about MySQL and Rails.

Read the Article »

New Discussion Forum

Hardware Storage Systems

This forum is for anyone interested in SAN, NAS, iSCSI, RAID, and more.

Visit the forum »

Events

Live Web Seminar: Coding and Indexing Strategies for Optimal Performance

March 1, 2006, 10:00 am PST, 1:00 pm EST, 18:00 GMT

You will get expert insight on coding and indexing strategies to achieve optimal performance. In this Webinar you will learn about:

  • Index concepts
  • Identifying index usage
  • Implementing appropriate indexes
  • SQL coding strategies

Learn More and Register Today »

Live Web Seminar: Developing and Deploying JDBC-based Applications with MySQL

March 2, 2006, 10:00 am PST, 1:00 pm EST, 18:00 GMT

MySQL Connector/J is a native Java driver that converts JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) calls into the network protocol used by the MySQL database. It lets developers working with the Java programming language easily build programs and applets that interact with MySQL and connect all corporate data, even in a heterogeneous environment. In this Webinar you will learn about:

  • JDBC support for MySQL
  • Avoiding common mistakes in developing and deploying JDBC-based applications with MySQL
  • New features in Connector/J 5.0, including XA distributed transactions
  • Upcoming JDBC-4.0 features and how MySQL will support them

Learn More and Register Today »

Live Web Seminar: MySQL Performance Tuning Best Practices

Wednesday, March 8, 2006
European Business Hours: 10:00am Paris/Berlin, 09:00am London

In this Web Seminar you will get expert insight and learn the best practices to help you improve performance. We will discuss the main performance optimization possibilities including:

  • Schema Optimization
  • Server Options Tuning
  • Operation Server Tuning
  • Hardware Selection and Tuning
  • Storage Engine Selection

Learn More and Register Today »

Live Web Seminar: Cost-Effective Enterprise Content Management Using Alfresco and MySQL

Thursday, March 9, 2006, 10:00 am PST, 1:00 pm, EST, 18:00 GMT

In this Web Seminar, presented by John Newton, Founder, CTO and Chairman of Alfresco, you will get insight on open source scale-out for Enterprise Content Management (ECM). You should attend this webinar if you are considering any of the following:

  • A new Content Management initiative for your organization
  • Replacing an existing proprietary Content Management product with the leading open source ECM
  • Learning about open source ECM for Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging.

Learn More and Register Today »

Live Web Seminar: High Availabilty Clustering - How MySQL Supports 99.999% Availability (Italian)

March 14th, 10:00am Rome, 09:00am London

Learn How MySQL Cluster is able to:

  • Cost-effectively deliver 5 nines availability using parallel server architecture with no single point of failure.
  • Deliver the performance and high throughput required to meet the most demanding enterprise applications.
  • Incrementally scale your applications in a linear fashion as your needs grow without having to invest in expensive hardware.

MySQL Cluster has a flexible distributed architecture which gives you complete control over the level of performance, reliability and scalability you need to match your application requirements.

Learn More and Register Today »

Training, Consulting & Certification

Developing Dynamic Web Applications with MySQL and PHP (5 days)
San Francisco, Washington D.C.

Jointly developed by the creator of PHP (Rasmus Lerdorf) and the creators of MySQL (MySQL AB), the course takes you from the basics to the advanced features in five hands-on, heavy duty training days.

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

MySQL Performance Tuning & Optimization Workshop (2 days)
Chicago

This workshop will provide you with expert insight, best practices, and techniques that will cover performance tuning and optimization.

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

Partner Corner

Business Objects Business Intelligence Solutions for MySQL

Business Objects and MySQL deliver a powerful, reliable, and fully supported solution for business intelligence (BI) at an affordable cost. Find out about new optimized BI bundles including Data Integrator, Crystal Reports and MySQL.

Download now »

Quest Toad Trial Offer

Quest Software and MySQL are proud to offer our joint customers a free trial of leading database development and management tool Toad(TM). Include you also receive a trial subscription to MySQL Network.

Register here »

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)