Win a Free 2-Day MySQL Training in NYC! $765.00 value!

Taught by world-renowned MySQL Expert at Percona, Morgan Tocker.

Two Full-Day Percona Training Courses FREE: MySQL Developer Day + MySQL DBA Day

Thursday, Feb. 25 and Friday Feb. 26, 2010 from 9:00 AM until 5pm in the NYC Financial District (90 Broad Street, New York, NY 10004)

Day 1: Developing High Performance, Scalable Applications

An intensive workshop that covers how to develop an application with MySQL as a key technology behind it. This course is equally applicable to applications written in all programming environments (PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, Java, etc.) The learning objectives for attendees are:

• Learn to be systematic about fixing performance problems.
• Learn how to optimize query performance, and how schema choices can also lead to better query performance.
• Understand architecture choices that will be available to you as your application scales, including caching systems and message queuing systems.
• Learn by case study how to fix common design patterns in applications that may not scale, such as pagination and geolocation queries.

Day 2: Performance Optimization for MySQL with InnoDB and XtraDB

An intensive workshop that covers tuning MySQL when using the InnoDB and XtraDB storage engines. The learning objectives for attendees are:

• Optimize query performance.
• Understand how key features of InnoDB work, including the buffer pool, transaction logs, clustered indexes, insert buffer, adaptive hash, double write buffer.
• Learn to read diagnostic Information from InnoDB and make informed decisions while tuning configuration.
• Discover how XtraDB, and the Percona and Google patches will provide you better diagnostics and performance.

Read the full details about the 2-Day Percona Training Workshop

Enter to Win

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The contest is now over and the winner is: Phil Agee!

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