MySQL Users Conference 2006 - April 24-27, 2006

Discover. Connect. Succeed.
Scale Your Business with MySQL.

Join us at the 2006 edition of the MySQL Users Conference, taking place April 24-27, 2006 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.

The MySQL Users Conference is the largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs. It is the only event where you will be able to join the core MySQL development team and over 1000 users, open source innovators, and technology partners under one roof. Register before March 6 and save $200.

Featured Speakers Include:

David Axmark MySQL AB	Tim O'Reilly O'Reilly Media, Inc.	Dorion Carroll Technorati	Michael Kruckenberg Tufts University
Milton Ngan Weta Digital Ltd	Sandeep Giri openi.org	George Schlossnagle OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.	Mark Spencer Digium
Rasmus Lerdorf Yahoo!	Gavin King JBoss	Kaj Arnö MySQL AB	Ask Bjørn Hansen Develooper.com

Also speaking

• Brian Aker
• Andy Bang
• Reggie Burnett
• John David Duncan
• Harrison Fisk
• Patrick Galbraith
• Sergei Golubchik
• Mike Hillyer
• Batara Kesuma
• Mark D. Matthews
• Domas Mituzas
• Elliot Murphy
• Konstantin Osipov
• Robin Schumacher
• Oren Teich
• Ian Wilkes
• Jim Winstead
• Michael G. Zinner

This year’s theme is “Discover. Connect. Succeed. Scale Your Business with MySQL.” With more than 75 sessions and tutorials, you’ll gain unique insights from speakers who are using MySQL to successfully run the world’s most demanding applications and saving millions of dollars over proprietary software and hardware solutions. You will also learn best practices for using MySQL in a range of architectures including Web, Cluster, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Embedded applications, and more from MySQL experts. Register before March 6 and save $200.

Conference News

Discover, Connect, and Succeed at the 2006 MySQL Users Conference , April 24-27 in Santa Clara, California. The MySQL Users Conference is the only event where you will be able to join the core MySQL developers, the MySQL development team, and over 1000 users, open source innovators, and technology partners, all under one roof. Register by March 9th and save up to $200 off the standard registration price.

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Articles & Weblogs

Followup on Managing MySQL on Mac OS X -- A couple of weeks ago, my article 'Managing MySQL on Mac OS X' was published, detailing some of the best Mac options for interacting with the popular database management system. There were some good tidbits in the comments of that article that I'd like to pull out as a followup.
posted by Robert Daeley, Dec. 31, 2005

Managing MySQL on Mac OS X -- There are myriad ways to control and manipulate information on a MySQL server -- some are stand-alone GUI apps, some are web-based, and of course the venerable (and powerful) command-line option is always available. Robert Daeley shows some of the most useful tools.
posted by Robert Daeley, Dec. 13, 2005

Pulling the rug under MySQL -- So, Oracle buys into OpenSource too ..
posted by Stéphane Faroult, Oct. 11, 2005

MySQL Trouble -- Noel Davis looks at problems in MySQL, umount, KDE's kcheckpass, GNOME Workstation Command Center, X.org, Squid, TWiki, ncompress, grip, Turquoise SuperStat, gtkdiskfree, and LessTif.
posted by Noel Davis, Sep. 22, 2005

Connecting a Pocket PC Database to MySQL -- Reader T.S. wants to know how to get data from a database on a Pocket PC to MySQL. Here's some suggestions...
posted by Todd Ogasawara, Sep. 8, 2005

Web Apps with Tiger: Security and MySQL -- In this, the second part of "Web Apps with Tiger," Morbus focuses on protection. He'll replace the default PHP configuration with a more secure version, and explain some of the differences. Finally, he'll install MySQL and run through its own security tweaks.
posted by Kevin Hemenway, Aug. 30, 2005

An SQL Puzzle -- An enigmatically simply stated SQL question that might haunt you (until someone posts the answer).
posted by Jonathan Wellons, Aug. 23, 2005

Live Backups of MySQL Using Replication -- One of the difficulties with a large and active MySQL database is making clean backups without having to bring the server down. A simple method to ensure reliable backups is to set up replication for MySQL. Russell Dyer, author of MySQL in a Nutshell, walks through the process of using replication for data backups.
posted by Russell Dyer, Jun. 16, 2005

MySQL conference wraps up with a vision -- Adam Bosworth's vision is for a protocol that provides raw access to data. And if the user gets a few hundred results and has to scroll through them a little bit, that's fine.
posted by Andy Oram, Apr. 21, 2005

The State of the Dolphin at the MySQL Users Conference 2005 -- Daniel Steinberg reports from the 2005 MySQL Users Conference, under way this week in Santa Clara, California. He first covers David Axmark's and Michael Widenius' "State of the Dolphin" keynote, in which, among details about binary releases and supported connectors, they announced that MySQL 5.0 code is complete. Next, Daniel reports on Michael Tiemann's keynote, in which he offers his thoughts on defining and identifying the strengths of open source. For all the announcements, press coverage, blogs, and photos coming out of the MySQL Conference, check out our Conference Coverage page.
posted by Daniel H. Steinberg, Apr. 20, 2005