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Workshops for Beginners, DBAs, Developers, HA, Performance Tuning, and More

Learn how to use MySQL and/or tweak your expertise in a specific area by attending MySQL training. Available classes include MySQL for Beginners, MySQL for DBAs, MySQL for Developers, MySQL for High Availability, MySQL Performance Tuning, MySQL Bootcamp, MySQL Cluster and on-site dedicated training. These classes are available around the world. Get more details on your specific class of interest and whether it is scheduled for a stop in a city near you.

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Kirk Pepperdine Maintains One-Size-Fits-All does Not Apply

Specifics about performance tuning and cloud computing figure importantly in the work of Java Champion Kirk Pepperdine, who told Janice J. Heiss that generic advice is useful but only if it is evaluated in terms of particular situations. “Performance tuning,” Pepperdine contends, “is still an art where limits are stretched and one goes to places never gone to before. It’s an experimental and creative realm with no one-size-fits-all answers to performance problems. It’s highly localized.”

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