MySQL Newsletter: Special MySQL Conference & Expo 2007 Issue

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The MySQL Users Conference 2007, April 23-26, in Santa Clara, California will be the largest gathering with over 2000 MySQL developers, DBAs and users. The theme this year is "Scale to New Heights with MySQL". At the upcoming conference you will:

Learn how to optimize the performance of MySQL
Get expert insight into MySQL Replication
Scale-out PHP, LAMP, and Java applications
Uncover new High Availability architectures
Geek out with the Developers who built MySQL
And much more...

15 In-depth Half-Day Tutorials

Take advantage of this rare opportunity to get hands-on knowledge from MySQL Experts on numerous topics. Tutorials are half day presentations that give you the opportunity to learn a topic in-depth, in a collaborative environment.

Real-World MySQL Performance Tuning: Ask Bjørn Hansen, Develooper.com
Jay Pipes, Community Relations Manager, MySQL AB
MySQL Replication: The Complete Tutorial: Lars Thalmann, Replication and Clustering Technology, MySQL
MySQL 5.1 In-depth: Brian Aker, Director of Architecture, MySQL AB
MySQL Cluster: The Complete Tutorial: Stewart Smith, Cluster Developer, MySQL AB
MySQL Network Monitoring and Advisory Services: from Soup to Nuts: Andy Bang, Director of MySQL Network, MySQL

View all the Tutorials »

100+ Technical Sessions

We will have over 100+ hands-on Tutorials and Sessions covering Security, Replication, Performance Tuning, High Availability, and Scalability. The 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 Cookbook: Peter Zaitsev, Co-Founder, Percona Ltd
Managing MySQL the Slack Way: How Google Deploys New MySQL Servers: Michael Still, Corporate Reliability Engineer, Google Inc
Grant Allen, Google, Inc.
Federation at flickr: Doing Billions of Queries Per Day: Dathan Pattishall, Senior Support Engineer, flickr.com
The 7 Stages of Scaling Web Applications: Strategies for Architects: John Engates, CTO, Rackspace Managed Hosting
High Performance Data Warehousing with MySQL: Tricks and Tips from the Field: Brian Miezejewski, Principal Consultant, MySQL inc.
Inside Falcon: MySQL's Newest Storage Engine: Jim Starkey, Senior Software Architect, MySQL AB
Scaling MySQL for Mission Critical Applications: Jacob Taylor, Co-founder and CTO, SugarCRM

View the complete list of sessions »

MySQL Expert Speakers

MySQL Conference Speakers include both the engineers who build MySQL and leading experts who are implementing MySQL in real-world environments. Come join the following MySQL Experts:

Rasmus Lerdorf - PHP Guru, Yahoo!
Brian Aker - Director of Architecture, MySQL
Ask Bjørn Hansen - Develooper.com
Kevin Rose - Founder & Chief Architect - digg
Andi Gutmans - CTO, Zend Technologies, Inc
Jeremy Cole, - MySQL Geek, Proven Scaling
Mike Hillyer, OmniIT
John Newton, CTO Alfresco.org
Julian Hyde, Chief Architect OLAP, Pentaho
Dathan Pattishall, Software Engineer, flickr.com
Mark D. Matthews, Developer Connector/J, MySQL
Michael Still, Google
Lars Thalman, Replication Technical Lead, MySQL

View the Complete List of Speakers »

Get Certified at the Conference

Certification Exams are being offered at special discounted price of $25 ($175 value). Space is limited, pre-register to guarantee your seat at the conference.

Exhibitors & Sponsors

Every year, the MySQL Conference also features an Expo Hall where you will have the chance to meet with some of the leading innovators driving change in the open source market. The Expo Hall will give you plenty of opportunities to spend time with MySQL partners to learn more about the latest products that help you get the most out of your MySQL environment. 2007 Exhibitors and Sponsors include:

Google
Hewlett Packard
Zmanda
Alfresco
Webyog
Four J's
Dolphin Interconnect
Nitro Security
JasperSoft
Pentaho
Actuate
BakBone
Unisys

View the Current List of Sponsors and Exhibitors »

DotOrg Pavilion

The DotOrg Pavilion is where you will have a chance to meet and greet with the contributors of some of the world's most recognized free software projects. DotOrg pavilion will be a mecca for Open Source enthusiasts, writers, speakers, and advocates.

View the DotOrg Pavilion Participants »

See you at the MySQL Conference

The MySQL Team