MySQL Users Conference & Expo 2004

The Definitive Conference for MySQL Developers and Users

April 14-16, 2004
Orlando, Florida

The 2004 conference theme was "Ready for the Enterprise." In addition to interactive sessions and workshops, there were be real world case studies from organizations like Yahoo! and Sabre that illustrate how MySQL is being used as a mission-critical database in production enterprise environments.

Learn MySQL from MySQL founders Monty Widenius and David Axmark

You can read highlights from the conference written by attendees and speakers, and download session materials that the speakers have provided.

Keynote Speakers

• Monty Widenius - Founder / CTO, MySQL AB
• David Axmark - Founder, MySQL AB
• Mårten Mickos - CEO, MySQL AB
• Brian Behlendorf - Co-founder, Apache Software Foundation, Founder/CTO, Collab.net
• Chris Stone - Vice Chairman, Novell
• Tony Perkins - Editor-in-Chief, AlwaysOn Network, Founder, Red Herring

Distinguished Speakers

• Mark Fleury, Founder/CEO, JBoss
• Jeremy Zawodny, Yahoo
• Alan Walker, VP Sabre Labs, Sabre Holdings
• Jörg Hoffmeister, Development Manager, SAP AG
• Stacey Quandt, Principal Analyst, OSDL
• Brad Fitzpatrick, President and CTO, Danga Interactive
• Mike Hillyer, VBMySQL.com
• Luke Welling, Laura Thomson, co-authors of "PHP & MySQL Web Development"

MySQL Development Team on Site

• Monty Widenius, Founder and CTO, MySQL AB
    Guru: Storage Engines, Optimizer
• Brian Aker, Director of Architecture, MySQL AB
    Guru: UDF, Storage Engines, Slashdot Database Architect
• Sergei Golubchik, Sr Software Engineer, MySQL AB
    Guru: MyISAM, Merge Tables, Full Text Search
• Lars Thalmann, Software Engineer, MySQL AB
    Guru: Cluster, Replication
• Mikael Ronström, Sr Software Architect, MySQL AB
    Guru: Cluster
• Konstantin Osipov, Software Engineer, MySQL AB
    Guru: Cursors
• Peter Gulutzan, Software Architect, MySQL AB
    Guru: Stored Procedures, SQL Standards
• Alexander Byelkin, Software Engineer, MySQL AB
    Guru: Sub-queries, Views, Query Cache
• Mark Matthews, Software Dev Manager, MySQL AB
    Guru: Connector/J, JDBC, Java
• Jim Winstead, Lead Web Developer, MySQL AB
    Guru: PHP, MySQL.com webmaster
• Alfredo Kojima, Software Engineer, MySQL AB
    Guru: GUI
• Peter Zaitsev, Benchmarks Specialist, MySQL AB
    Guru: Optimizations, Benchmarks
• Alexey "Holyfoot" Botchkov, Software Developer, MySQL AB
    Guru: Embedded Library, GIS Support

Session Highlights

• "Mr. Widenius I Presume": A Guided Tour of the MySQL Source Code
• Hands-On Database Design Workshop
• Data Warehousing with MySQL
• MySQL New Feature Workshop: Stored Procedures
• Best Practices for MySQL Administration in an Enterprise Environment
• High Availability in MySQL Cluster
• MySQL/InnoDB Performance Class
• The Evolution of MySQL at Yahoo!