Posted by Tim Inkpen on Feb 12, 2010
Pythian is hosting the February meeting of the Ottawa Valley System Admistrators Guild (OVSAGE). This free event is open to all those interested in System Administration.
Date
Thursday February 18, 2010
Time
Start: 19:00
End: 21:30
Location
Pythian Headquarters
Suite 261
1200 St. Laurent Blvd.
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada
Directions
From the Queensway, take the St. Laurent exit and proceed north. Read the rest of this entry . . .
Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Dec 7, 2009
I’ve recently learned that Chris Date is giving a three days seminar on January 26–28, 2010 in Dallas, TX, organized by Method-R. It must be one of the unique opportunities to learn from the world renown expert in relational database theory.
The seminar title is “How to Write Correct SQL and Know It: A Relational Approach to SQL“. It’s focused on writing reliable SQL. While SQL has been designed as a simple access interface to relational data, it turned out to be quite complex and requires your to follow a certain disciplines to produce truly reliable SQL code — relational discipline.
From my experience, I find that many database problems (and that’s probably underestimation) could be avoided with better design and better SQL so I’m genuinely interested to have people do that better and better and better — managing well written applications is so much more fun!
See the course outline for all the glory details. The pricing is very fair and $600 per day is a bargain if you ask me.
Posted by Sheeri Cabral on May 20, 2009
Yesterday, The Pythian Group issued a press release about my book, Pythian’s partnership with Sun, and our new “MySQL Adoption Accelerator Package”. I am not a marketing guru, but I can tell you what we the package means in terms of new work that the MySQL teams have been doing.
Basically, the MySQL Adoption Accelerator Package combines customized training with a comprehensive audit of systems. The name “Adoption Accelerator” makes it sound like it’s only for new applications that are almost ready to go live. What the program actually does is have us evaluate your systems, and intensively train you in the areas you want and need. The program is designed to suit all your needs, whether it’s teaching you about one topic (say, query optimization) or an entire range of topics, from Architecture to ZFS (special issues with running MySQL on ZFS, that is, but that did not fit a cute “from A-Z” model…).
Whether you have already adopted MySQL or are thinking of converting from Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server or even sqlite, this new package may be what you need.
And now, the full text of the press release, for the curious:
‘MySQL Administrator’s Bible’ Hits the Bookstands: Pythian Launches MySQL Accelerator Adoption Package
The Pythian Group, the leading provider of remote database services, is pleased to announce that the much-anticipated MySQL Administrator’s Bible, written by employee Sheeri K. Cabral, is now available.
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Posted by Alex Gorbachev on Aug 19, 2008
I’d like to share some great news — The Pythian Group and Open Query have become partners!
Open Query is a leading provider of high-quality MySQL, PostgreSQL and related training in Australia and New Zealand. They offer consulting services too, and are also known for their MySQL Graph Storage Engine. Feel free to browse through Open Query web-site for more info.
Open Query was founded by Arjen Lentz, who was employee number 25 at MySQL AB. If you follow the MySQL community then I’m sure you already read Arjen’s blog.
Since you’re reading this blog, I guess you probably already know what Pythian does, but if you want to learn more, please click through to our home page.
Together with Open Query, we are going to extend our service offerings and strengthen our positions in outsourced database management services, consulting, and training.
