Articles in this newsletter:
Highlights
Products
Tips & Hints
Events
Consulting, Training & Certification
Partner Corner
Highlights
MySQL
announced the General Availability of MySQL 5.0, the most significant
product upgrade in the company's ten-year history! MySQL 5.0
delivers new advanced SQL standard-compliant features
such
as Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views & New Pluggable Storage
Engines.
Download MySQL 5.0 »
MySQL
5.0 represents a huge leap forward for the world's most popular open
source database. This paper first provides a technical overview of
MySQL from the DBAs perspective, and then focuses on new features in
5.0
Download the White Paper »
What exactly is the
MySQL pluggable storage engine architecture and what benefits does it
offer to today's modern enterprises? This paper addresses these
questions and more by outlining what the MySQL pluggable storage
engine architecture is, giving practical examples of how it works,
and showcasing the many benefits that come from using it.
Download the White Paper »
The
Call for Participation is now open, and you're invited to submit a
proposal to speak at the next MySQL Users Conference, April 24-27,
2006, in Santa Clara, California. The MySQL Users Conference brings
over 1,000 open source and database enthusiasts together as a
celebration of the huge MySQL ecosystem. The Conference will feature
a wide range of tutorials and sessions, including in-depth technical
sessions on performance tuning, high availability, as well as PHP/Web
and Data warehousing Scale-out.
Submit a Proposal »
Please
give us your vote so that Florian Mueller, the founder of the
NoSoftwarePatents campaign, can be elected as the new "European
of the Year". This is a campaign for a cause, not for a person.
By voting for Florian in a public Internet poll, you can send out a
strong signal that politicians must act against software patents.
Learn More »
How to Vote »
Products
This is the first
production release in the 5.0 series. This release includes support
for Stored Procedures, Views, Triggers, Information Schema (Data
Dictionary), XA and more.
For the complete list of changes visit »
Download Now »
This release is the
latest production release of the 3.51 series and supports MySQL 4.1
and 5.0. This release was built using the MySQL v5 client software
and will work with any current version of the MySQL.
For the complete list of changes visit »
Download Now »
Tips & Hints
MySQL
5.0 gives developers, DBAs, and ISVs an array of new features to make
you more productive developing, deploying, and maintaining industrial
strength applications. Find out what is new in this major new
release with this overview from the MySQL 5.0 documentation.
Learn More »
More
than at any other time, database professionals are being aggressively
challenged by mushrooming volumes of data in corporate business
systems. The Archive Storage Engine can help reduce the size of your
data by more than 75%.
Read the Article »
This paper addresses
all other major questions that naturally occur when one thinks about
migrating a key database-driven system to MySQL. Both the business
and technical sides of migrating to MySQL are be discussed.
Read the White Paper »
The MySQL Community
has started excellent blogs dedicated to MySQL. These blogs include
valuable tips and sample code to make you more productive.
Roland Bouman has
published the very popular "A Diagram of the MySQL Information
Schema". It is an interactive diagram with links to the MySQL
Reference Manual for more detail.
View the Diagram »
Events
One
key differentiator between MySQL and other database platforms whether
they are proprietary or open source - is the pluggable storage engine
architecture of MySQL. This webinar describes what the MySQL
pluggable storage engine architecture is, giving practical examples
of how it works, and showcasing the many benefits that come from
using it.
Learn more and
register today:
November 3, 2005: 10:00 am PST; 1:00 pm EST
- Do you want to know how to get started with the new features of MySQL 5.0?
- Do you want to develop new database applications that use MySQL Stored Procedures,
Triggers, Views, and Information Schema?
- Do you want to
upgrade existing applications to MySQL 5.0?
We will discuss the
new features and functionality of MySQL 5.0 and provide the Top 10
Tips to getting started with MySQL 5.0 today.
Learn More and Register Today »
Learn
about MySQL 5.0, Using MySQL for Data Warehousing, MySQL
Administration, and more directly from the MySQL Development Team.
There will be 8 sessions covering MySQL at this conference.
Register Today »
Come learn why
government agencies have come to rely on open source technology and
MySQL, and what they can do for you. This seminar is free of charge.
We anticipate that available space will fill up quickly, so register
today!
Register Now »
MySQL is pleased to
announce the 1st annual Northern European Customer Conference on Nov
22, 2005. Please join MySQL founder, David Axmark along with MySQL
technical and sales staff for a 1 day seminar, followed by a dinner
reception.
Learn More and Register Today »
Meet other MySQL
users in your local community and discuss the new features in MySQL
5.0. MySQL Users Groups are free and informal, face-to-face meetings
that happen in hundreds of cities around the world. These meetings
are a great opportunity to share your interest over a coffee or a
beer.
For more information and to find a user group near you »
Consulting, Training & Certification
This instructor-led
course is designed for students planning on developing applications
that make use of MySQL 5.0. This course covers essential SQL
statements for data design, querying, and programming. In addition,
it will prepare students for the MySQL Developer certification.
Register Now for an Upcoming Date »
This instructor led, hands-on class will teach you how to secure users
privileges, set resource limitations, and access controls. In
addition, you will learn new 5.0 features by creating and using
Stored Procedures, Triggers and Views.
Register Now for an Upcoming Date »
Partner Corner
Backup of open
databases is critical for many businesses which cannot afford to
interrupt services relying on MySQL™, the world's most widely used
open source data management tool. With that reality in mind, Arkeia
developed solutions to fully protect MySQL application data.
Learn More »
Tikal provides ISV's
with enterprise grade, fully supported open source Application
Development & Deployment suites that lower R&D TCO and
improve productivity.
Learn More »
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