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:

Mark Spencer Digium	Bruce Dembecki LiveWorld, Inc	Mårten Mickos MySQL AB	Sandeep Giri openi.org
Milton Ngan Weta Digital Ltd	Rasmus Lerdorf PHP	Dorion Carroll Technorati	David Axmark MySQL AB
Tim O'Reilly O'Reilly Media, Inc.	Kaj Arnö MySQL AB	Ask Bjørn Hansen Develooper.com	George Schlossnagle OmniTI Computer Consulting, Inc.

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

The addslashes() Versus mysql_real_escape_string() Debate -- Last month, I discussed Google's XSS Vulnerability and provided an example that demonstrates it. I was hoping to highlight why character encoding consistency is important, but apparently the addslashes() versus mysql_real_escape_string() debate continues.
posted by Chris Shiflett, Jan. 22, 2006

Turning MySQL data in latin1 to utf8 utf-8 -- My old CD Baby MySQL database from 1998 was filled with foreign characters and was in MySQL's default latin1 encoding. I wanted everything to be in UTF-8. (The database, the website, the MySQL client, everything.) Unfortunately, I found out I had some characters in latin1, some characters in UTF-8, some in the database as HTML equivalents (分) and some characters that were just a total mystery. Here's how I solved it all in MySQL and PHP.
posted by Derek Sivers, Jan. 15, 2006

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