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Open Query training at Drupal DownUnder 2012

arjen — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 04:00:56 +0000

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 material is made specific to Drupal developers and users. The query design skills, for instance, will help you with module development and designing Drupal Views. The two half-days can also be booked as a MySQL Training Pack for $395.

On Saturday afternoon in the main conference, I have a session Scaling out your Drupal and Database Infrastructure, Affordably covering the topics of resilience, ease of maintenance, and scaling.

I’m honoured to have been selected to do these sessions, I know there were plenty of submissions from excellent speakers. As with all Drupal conferences, attendees also vote on which submissions they would like to see.

After DDU I’m travelling on to Ballarat for LinuxConfAU 2012, where I’m not speaking in the main program this year, but will have sessions in the “High Availability and Storage” and “Business of Open Source” miniconfs. I’ll do another post on the former – the latter is not related to Open Query.

New Open Query training days in Australia

arjen — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:36:46 +0000

The favourite Open Query course modules as well as reworked and brand new ones, with November/December 2009 dates for Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne listed below. You can register for days/modules individually, to suit your time, budget and current needs. Your trainers are Sean, Ray and Arjen (see OQ people).

For the Canberra and Melbourne days which are DBA/HA, registrations for all of the modules in a series before 15 October will receive a copy of the “High Performance MySQL” book (normal bookstore price is AUD 105).

Canberra

Thu 5 Nov: MySQL High Availability – Strategy and Tools
Fri 6 Nov: MySQL Cluster Workshop

Sydney

Mon 9 Nov: MySQL Optimisation by Design
Tue 10 Nov: MySQL Locking, Transactions & Storage Engine Optimisation

Brisbane

Thu 19 Nov: MySQL Query Performance Optimisation and Tuning
Fri 20 Nov: MySQL Server Performance Optimisation and Tuning

Melbourne

Wed 9 Dec: MySQL Installation, Security and User Management
Thu 10 Dec – Fri 11 Dec MySQL Backup and Recovery + Replication Workshop

BarCamp Melbourne 12-13 September 2009

arjen — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:52:56 +0000

Open Query is pleased to sponsor BarCamp Melbourne, a rocking unconference held at UrbanCamp, Royal Park, Melbourne VIC (Australia). If you’re anywhere nearby this coming weekend (12-13 September 2009), you really really want to be there and participate, learn, and enjoy! Open Query‘s own Peter Lieverdink (cafuego) will be there.

Barcamps are run at low cost, but of course there are still costs, so it’s very important that lots of businesses and people toss in something to help cover that. If you would like to contribute, just follow the links and Ben or Donna will be happy to help.