Tuesday Jun 09, 2009

On Thursday, June 11 at 1400 UTC, Thomas Ulin, the MySQL Server Director, will host a MySQL University session on the recently announced new MySQL Release model

MySQL University is a free online educational program that is open to everyone!  This is a great opportunity for students who are looking to learn more about MySQL.  

To watch live go here, and ensure your browser has a working Flash plugin.  

If you cannot attend live, the session will be recorded and the slides and voice can be viewed as a Flash movie.  All past sessions can be watched by going to the MySQL University home page. Here you can find dozens of invaluable previous sessions in the archive.  

There are more sessions scheduled for the coming weeks.  However, it is subject to change so please check here for the most up-to-date schedule.

  • June 25 -- MySQL code contributions (Lenz Grimmer)
  • July 2 -- Starring Sakila - a data warehouse mini-tutorial (Roland Bouman)  
And for those who know of or find additional free online resources for students please share them here in the comments or e-mail me at maijaliisa.burkert(at)sun.com! 

Tuesday Jul 01, 2008


The wait is over...

First of all, thanks to all the participants. It was a great contest with plenty of good submissions. In fact, it was so close that the judges awarded more second prize winners than originally announced in the contest. Good for you!

Another interesting contest with great prizes will be announced soon. Stay tuned, and check this blog frequently.

And FINALLY... here goes the list!!!
General Students Category

Grand Prize Winner: Ritwik Ghosal, Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, India. (review)

Second Prize Winners (alphabetically sorted by last name):
1. Carrie Arnold, Ball State university, USA. (review)
2. Blake Deville, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA. (review)
3. Rohan Dhruva, Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India. (review)
4. Jay Mahadeokar, SRKNEC College, Nagpur, India. (review)
5. Andreas Nilsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. (review)
6. Varun Nischal, JIIT University, Noida, India. (review)
7. Saptarshi Purkayastha, Patkar-Varde College, India. (review)

Ritwik Ghosal
Ritwik Ghosal
Campus Ambassadors Category

Grand Prize Winner: Ashwin Bhat, National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India. (review)

Second Prize Winners (alphabetically sorted by last name):
1. Souvik Das Gupta, UIET, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India. (review)
2. Jonas Dias, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (review)
3. Ajay Kumar, IIITM, Kerala, India. (review)
4. Agraj Mangal, University of Delhi, India. (review)
5. Silveira Neto, Federal University of CearĂ¡, Brazil. (review)
6. Zhiqi Tao, University of Melbourne, Australia. (review)

Ashwin Bhat
Ashwin Bhat
The two grand prize winners each get $250 in Visa Debit Cards, and all the second prize winners in both categories each get $100 in Visa Debit Cards.

Look out for email communications from us with regards to the prize shipment.

Congratulations!!!

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