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April 30, 2009
Article #21749
Volume 134, Issue 5
Section: MySQL

 


 

Upcoming MySQL Webinars
Informative Technical and Not so Technical Live Discussions on MySQL

The following are live webinars on MySQL topics and are scheduled throughout the month of May.

Memcached Technical Deep Dive

Tuesday, May 05, 2009

This informative technical webinar presented by Trond Norbye, Sr Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems, will cover the basic concepts of how memcached works and how it can be leveraged to increase the scalability of online applications. The majority of the presentation will focus on a technical deep dive into memcached's new binary protocol, a pluggable storage interface and the possibility of leveraging RAM and Flash to create hybrid caching architectures. Memcached is a community-driven, open source distributed memory caching system that can be used to increase the performance and scalability of MySQL driven websites and applications. Also presented will be the current status of the memcached project, future development and how to participate in the memcached community.

Scaling MySQL for Data Warehousing with Infobright

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

The key to surviving a challenging economy is having fast affordable access to the intelligence buried in the data. This informative webinar will introduce a new technology that is changing how data warehousing is done.

Built on MySQL, Infobright delivers a scalable, powerful and easy-to-use data warehouse solution specifically designed for analytics and business intelligence. Infobright combines a column-oriented database with its unique Knowledge Grid architecture and provides an ideal solution for delivering business intelligence from growing volumes of data. Key to Infobright's ease of use and performance is the Knowledge Grid which eliminates the need to create indexes, partition data or do database tuning. Instead, Infobright uses the intelligence of the data itself to create a self-managing data warehouse, doing away with the notion of designing schema and indices in advance of queries from business users.

MySQL and Search at Craigslist

Thursday, May 07, 2009

This technical webinar presented by Jeremy Zawodny of Craigslist.org will look at the recent evolution of database and search architecture at Craigslist, including performance, caching, partitioning, and other tweaks. He'll pay special attention to the unique challenges of doing this for a large data set that has an especially high churn rate (new posts, edits, and deletes) with the goal of leveraging as little hardware and power as possible. Craigslist is one of the world's most popular destinations on the web, featuring free online classified advertisements, forums and communities.

Controlling Storage Costs of Rich Media for Web

Thursday, May 07, 2009

This webinar covers Sun Systems for MySQL Rich Media Storage. Modern web infrastructures are including more and more opportunities for users to interact with rich media. As social networking platforms become more popular and useful, the numbers of images, videos, and documents that need to be referenced is increasing dramatically.

The following topics will be covered:

  • What is open storage?
  • How can you cost-effectively deploy rich media applications with MySQL?
  • How can you better administer dramatically increasing storage capacity?
  • How are companies such as Wikimedia and SmugMug dealing with demand for rich media?
  • How can rich media storage be improved?

For Commercial ISVs and OEMs: Securely and Seamlessly Deploy MySQL with Your Application

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

MySQL security best practices often assume restricted access to the physical server and restrictive file system privileges. However, OEM's and ISV's who bundle and distribute MySQL with their applications have no control over where the application is installed. In fact, the application is often deployed on workstations with unrestricted access to the underlying data files.

Common security vulnerabilities: This session will address two common security vulnerabilities that assume unrestricted access to the underlying MySQL grant and data files and will cover the following:

Three common strategies to prevent data file tampering:

  • Encryption
  • Obscurity for InnoDB data files
  • Application awareness of database tampering

Deployment options:

  • Silent install
  • Launching the MySQL executable from a command-line
  • Initializing an empty database
  • MySQL's deeply embedded library (libmysqld)
  • Connector/MXJ Java utility package

Running MySQL web Services on Sun systems with Intel Xeon 5500 Processors

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Speed up application performance, simplify your datacenter and see cost and energy savings with Sun's Open Network System for MySQL - integrating and optimizing compute technologies and featuring the Intel Xeon processor 5500 series with new flash-ready options.

This web seminar will cover the following topics:

  • New features on Xeon 5500 processors that speed application performance
  • Performance benchmarks and energy saving metrics
  • How integrated flash technologies help eliminate I/O bottlenecks, and provide up to 65x faster response time
  • Running Linux, Windows, VMware and Solaris environments
  • Unique Solaris OS performance, power efficiency, reliability and virtualization advantages for running MySQL

Guide to Open Source Data Warehousing for Communications Service Providers

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The biggest asset Communications Service Providers (CSPs) have to compete and grow in the market is their data - specifically customer data. This data is much more than just traditional customer billing details. It includes something no other organization has access to: location data, device data, session data, "friends and family" data (i.e. social networking), etc. This data, if managed and mined properly, is the key differentiator for CSPs.

Tune into this live webinar from Infobright and MySQL to learn how open source data warehousing enables CSPs to gain greater subscriber insight, with lower cost and risk than ever before.

Attendees will learn:

  • How new data warehouse technologies make it much easier and cheaper to implement a scalable analytic system and retain a lot more data
  • The state of open source in data warehousing and business intelligence
  • A case study showing how one service provider is leveraging this new technology to drive their business

For Commercial ISVs: The New MySQL Connector/C++

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

MySQL Connector/C++ is the latest Connector for MySQL. It takes a different approach compared to existing C++ drivers by following the JDBC specification in a way that makes sense in C++ world. JDBC is the Java standard for accessing databases, which has been improved over the numerous Java releases. The JDBC interface is very well thought out. In this webinar you'll learn:

  • The reasoning behind Connector/C++’s development
  • What's included in Connector/C++
  • What's planned for Connector/C++
  • How you can use it to ease your C++ development

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