MySQL Conference Offers Deep Discounts for Students and Professors

Thursday Jan 08, 2009

Early Registration is now Open for the 2009 MySQL Conference & Expo which is scheduled for April 20-23, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA, USA. There are attractive discounts available for academic developers including:

• Academic Staff 25% Discount
• Academic Instructor 50% Discount
• Full Time Student 65% Discount

This year's conference will offer hands-on learning and quality time with the MySQL Development Team which assure that you will get all your questions answered. In addition, conference participants will:

• Learn all about the MySQL 5.1
• Get detailed insight into new MySQL features
• Develop skills for scale-out using Java, PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby and .NET
• Learn administration and security best practices
• Hear real world experiences implementing MySQL projects
• Discover best practices for using MySQL in a range of architectures including Web, Cluster, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Embedded applications, and more
• Learn how MySQL fits into Web 2.0 architecture and emerging web technologies
• Learn how to migrate from proprietary databases to MySQL, including expert sessions on MySQL for the Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server DBA

The Featured Speakers and Sessions include:

Brian Aker (MySQL) and Alan Kasindorf (Six Apart) - Architecture and Technology, Performance Tuning and Benchmarks
The original memcached tutorial has done its rounds around the globe, and it's time for round two. Quickly get up to speed with integration and tuning examples, then dive into new topics and community tricks. See how the new binary protocol and storage engine interfaces can solve hard problems.

Adam Donnison (Sun Microsystems) - Beginner's Guide to Website Performance with MySQL and Memcached
Memcached is a distributed memory object caching system that is getting a lot of press at the moment for its ability to provide a high-performance front-end for database applications. Sure, memcached can do wonders, but where is it most effective and what are the pain points?

Thorsten von Eicken (RightScale, Inc) - Tricks and Tradeoffs of Deploying MySQL Clusters in the Cloud
This session will explore lessons learned at RightScale in deploying thousands of production MySQL databases on the cloud for real customers and will help attendees understand why the flexibility of running databases in the cloud is worth more than the loss of control over the hardware.

Kai Voigt (Sun Microsystems) - MySQL DBA Certification Tutorial, Part 1 & 2
The MySQL DBA Certification Exam will make you a certified MySQL DBA. The Certificate will testify skills to install, maintain, administer and optimize MySQL servers.

David Van Couvering (Sun Microsystems, Inc.) - Building a Twitter analysis tool using MySQL, PHP and NetBeans
In this session we'll be building a PHP+MySQL application that uses the Twitter API and has some AJAX fun with it.

Keith Murphy (The Pythian Group) - MySQL Server Backup, Restoration and Disaster Recovery Planning
Performing backups, recovery and disaster planning are some of the most important functions of a database administrator.

And there's more! Check out the conference website for all the details.