Why You Should Attend MySQL Connect, and Register Now

MySQL Connect is
taking place on September 29 and 30 in San Francisco. The early bird discount
enabling you to save US$
500 is only running for a few more days, until July 13.

Are you
still wondering if you should sign up? Here are 10 reasons why you definitely
should:

• Learn from
  other companies how they tackled similar challenges to the ones you’re facing.
  Find out what they learned along the way, and how you can save time, money and
  a lot of troubles by avoiding repeating the same mistakes and applying the best
  practices they’ve developed. You’ll get the chance to hear from organizations
  including PayPal, Verizon, Twitter, Facebook, Ticketmaster, Ning, Mozilla,
  CERN, Yahoo! and
  more!
• Don’t miss
  this unique opportunity to meet the engineers developing and supporting the MySQL
  products in a single location. You’ll be able to ask them all your questions,
  which can represent a huge time and money saver.
• Acquire
  detailed knowledge about InnoDB, the MySQL Optimizer, High Availability
  strategies, improving performance and scalability, enhancing security and numerous
  other topics. You’ll hear it straight "from the horse’s mouth" as well as
  from other MySQL experts in the ecosystem.
• Get a better
  understanding about Oracle’s
  MySQL strategy and about the MySQL roadmap, so you can better plan where
  to use the MySQL database and MySQL Cluster for your next web, cloud-based and
  other applications.
• Get hands-on
  experience about improving performance with the MySQL Performance Schema, about
  using MySQL Utilities, MySQL Cluster and a lot more with eight different Hands-On
  Labs.
• Express your
  ideas, engage into discussions and help influence the MySQL roadmap during Birds-of-a-feather
  sessions about replication, backup, query optimizations and other topics.
• Meet
  partners and learn about third party tools that could be useful in your
  architecture.
• Immerse
  yourself into the MySQL universe and hang out with MySQL experts for two days.
  The discussions as well as the relationships you will create can be priceless and
  help you execute on your next projects in a much better and faster way.
• Register
  Now to save US$500 by taking advantage of the Early bird discount running
  until July 13. We’ll have parallel tracks so you should consider sending a few
  team members to make the most of the event. Are you attending or planning to
  attend Oracle OpenWorld or JavaOne? You can add MySQL Connect to your registration
  for only US$100!
• Finally,
  it’s always a lot of fun to attend a MySQL conference. The passion and the
  energy are contagious…and you’ll likely get plenty of new ideas.

You will find all information about the program in the MySQL
Connect Content Catalog. We look forward to seeing you there!

You can also read interviews with Tomas
Ulin and Ronald
Bradford about MySQL Connect.

Sponsorship and exhibit
opportunities are still available for the conference. You will find more
information here.