Ronald Bradford will be presenting at two conferences in April, the O’Reilly MySQL Conference and the IOUG Collaborate 11 conference. His presentations include:

• Monday April 11 at 3:45-4:45pm in Orlando, Florida – Common MySQL Scalability Mistakes
• Wednesday April 13 at 2:00-3:00pm in Santa Clara, California – Best Practices for MySQL DBAs and Developers Part 1
• Wednesday April 13 at 3:05-3:50pm in Santa Clara, California – Best Practices for MySQL DBAs and Developers Part 2
• Wednesday April 13 at 7pm in Santa Clara, California – The Art of Good SQL Ignite Talk

In addition, our monthly New York Meeting will be:

• Tuesday April 26th at 7pm – MySQL Idiosyncrasies That Bite. Please register at with the NY Meetup Group to attend. There will be no fee for this months presentation.

Ronald Bradford will be speaking in New York on March 22nd at the offices of the startup incubator General Assembly starting at 6pm.

His presentation “How better indexes save you money” will be an enlightening experience about how index only improvements to already indexed queries and with no additional code changes resulted in huge performance improvements and significant savings in hosting costs for a client.

More information available at Meetup.com EffectiveMySQL Group.

On February 26, 2008 Sun Microsystems completed the $1 Billion USD acquisition of MySQL.

• Sun to Acquire MySQL
• Blog: Sun acquires MySQL