In some ways, MySQL is a victim of its own success.  Because of the focus on reliability, performance, and ease-of-use, MySQL usage continues to grow at a heavy pace.  This being the case, the demand for skilled MySQL pro’s has quickly outstripped the current supply.  Go to monster and put in ‘mysql’ and you’ll get back thousands of hits. So if you’re wondering whether getting MySQL expertise as a DBA is a good investment, wonder no more.

Without a doubt, one great way to drink in lots of MySQL DBA knowledge is to attend the upcoming MySQL User’s Conference.  At this year’s conference, there are more tracks than ever designed to help the DBA get a handle on security, performance tuning, backup and recovery, high-performance schema design, and much more.  Plus, you’ll get to see some new tools we’ve been working on to make your DBA life easier, sneak-peek’s at major upcoming features like our new online backup, and some pretty cool things on the data warehousing front. I’ll see about kicking out a DBA tutorial guide for the conference once we get a little closer, but I do want to remind you that early registration savings expires near the end of the month, so sign up soon if you want to save some $$$.

1. MySQL Stored Procedures: CASE syntax
2. MySQL 5.1 data dictionary diagram
3. MySQL 5.1 partitions in practice
4. A Primer on Falcon Tablespaces
5. MySQL Sandbox University lesson - June 12, 14:00 GMT
6. COUNT(*) vs COUNT(col)
7. Using XML in MySQL 5.1 and 6.0
8. High Performance MySQL 2nd Edition is in production
9. The top 20 design tips for MySQL Enterprise data architects
10. InnoDB Sessions at MySQL Conference
11. Database Security Talk
12. Webinar - Reduce the TCO with MySQL
13. Reading the guide
14. How to create a MySQL Database
15. Designing Scalable Architectures with MySQL Proxy
16. Top 20 DB Design Tips Every Architect Needs to Know part 5
17. Top 20 DB Design Tips Every Architect Needs to Know
18. MySQL Special Promotions - Training Services
19. High Performance MySQL Second Edition Schedule
20. Top 20 DB Design Tips Every Architect Needs to Know part 3
21. Interview by Sun TV at MySQL Conference
22. Top 20 DB Design Tips Every Architect Needs to Know part 4
23. An Introduction to BLOB Streaming for MySQL part 4
24. Top 20 DB Design Tips Every Architect Needs to Know part 2
25. An Introduction to BLOB Streaming for MySQL part 2
26. An Introduction to BLOB Streaming for MySQL part 3
27. Two second editions, two first times
28. An Introduction to BLOB Streaming for MySQL part 5
29. MySQL Obfuscator, What features do you want to see
30. An Introduction to BLOB Streaming for MySQL
31. Drizzling MySQL
32. Employee MySQL virtual columns
33. Capacity Planning, Archetecture, Scaling, Response time, Throughput
34. OSCON 2008 - MySQL Proxy - from architecture to implementation
35. Wonderful world of MySQL Storage Engines
36. MySQL Proxy @ OSCON 08
37. MySQL University Thu 30 Oct
38. UC2009 - A few days, a few wishes