Start off 2012 with the MySQL for Beginners course. You can get this training from your desk with the MySQL for Beginners Live Virtual Delivery and now you can even learn at your own pace with the all new MySQL for Beginners self-paced online delivery.

All you need to take the MySQL for Beginners course is a basic level of computer literacy.

With this course you will learn how this powerful relational database management system can make your life easier and more fun! This class covers all the basics and will get you on …

We will be holding our highly acclaimed MySQL workshops in Frankfurt, Germany the week of February 13th. Early registration is open; enroll today and secure your seat. Detail and enrollment can be found here.

By taking this newly updated course,  MySQL for Database Administrators,
students will benefit from learning how to secure users privileges, set resource limitations, access controls, describe backup and recovery basics and more... There is never a better time to get the training you need - end the year by gaining some new skills!

By taking this newly updated course,  MySQL for Database Administrators,
students will benefit from learning how to secure users privileges, set resource limitations, access controls, describe backup and recovery basics and more... There is never a better time to get the training you need - end the year by gaining some new skills!

Many of you have seen the announcement for our Percona Live in Washington, DC in January! But did you know we also have our highly rated MySQL Training coming to Washington, DC the week of January 16h? Full details can be found on the Percona website. If you would like to attend the MySQL Training, click here to register and receive a 20% discount.

DrupalDownUnder 2012 will be held in Melbourne Australia 13-15 January. A great event, I’ve been to several of its predecessors. People there don’t care an awful lot for databases, but they do realise that sometimes it’s important to either learn more about it or talk to someone specialised in that field. And when discussing general infrastructure, resilience is quite relevant. Clients want a site to remain up, but keep costs low.

I will teach pre-conference training sessions on the Friday at DDU:

• MySQL Query Design ($220 half-day)
• MySQL Server Tuning ($220 half-day)

The …

It is finally ready! The training course at least I have been waiting for since we started the company: A MySQL training course for Developers.  And this is not just another standard MySQL for Developers training course. Based on our previous experiences at MySQL AB, we wanted to create something different, with a better fit. We wanted to aim this MySQL training course more at developers who already have experience using SQL and MySQL instead of just focusing on teaching SQL basics. Sure, we still cover the SQL basics, however it's done quickly.  We focus more on the MySQL exceptions and how to optimize SQL on MySQL.  As a result, entire chapters are dedicated to query optimization in MySQL, choosing storage engines, replication and other things often related more to a DBA role, that we deemed to be important for an advanced MySQL developer. We have also added a large section focusing on solving complex problems with …

We are proud to share that OSSCube has now entered into a partnership with Cloudera, as the official training partner for Cloudera Developer Training for Apache Hadoop. The pride is, essentially, in the fact that we are the World’s First Cloudera / Hadoop Training Partner.

Cloudera provides enterprises a powerful new data platform built on the popular Apache Hadoop open source software package.  Hadoop is a powerful data management platform for consolidating your data, storing your information inexpensively and reliably and understanding large, heterogeneous data sets in order to better comprehend the data deluge.

OSSCube believes this partnership will deliver first-class Cloudera / Hadoop training to developers and IT professionals to help establish them as a trusted and valuable resource looking to work with Apache Hadoop, along with developing their professional skills.

Immediately after the …

We are proud to share that OSSCube has now entered into a partnership with Cloudera, as the official training partner for Cloudera Developer Training for Apache Hadoop. The pride is, essentially, in the fact that we are the World’s First Cloudera / Hadoop Training Partner.

Cloudera provides enterprises a powerful new data platform built on the popular Apache Hadoop open source software package.  Hadoop is a powerful data management platform for consolidating your data, storing your information inexpensively and reliably and understanding large, heterogeneous data sets in order to better comprehend the data deluge.

OSSCube believes this partnership will deliver first-class Cloudera / Hadoop training to developers and IT professionals to help establish them as a trusted and valuable resource looking to work with Apache Hadoop, along with developing their professional skills.

Immediately after the …

If you have been waiting for Percona’s highly rated MySQL courses to be taught near you, your wait is over. We will be holding our Developer, DBA, InnoDB, and Operations training in the following cities:

• Dublin, Ireland – December 5 – 8, 2011
• San Diego, CA – December 12 – 15, 2011
• New York, NY – January 9 – 12, 2012
• Washington, DC – January 16 – 19, 2012

Full details on the courses can be found on the Percona website. We are providing a special discount code to our MySQL Performance Blog readers. When you purchase your ticket, enter discount code PBLOG to receive 10% off. Act now while early registration is open to save even more.