The MySQL for Beginners course is THE course to get you started with MySQL providing you a solid foundation in relational databases using MySQL as a learning tool. Oracle University recently released the Training-on-Demand option for this course. 

Ben Krug from the MySQL product team is trying out the MySQL for Beginners Training-on-Demand course and reporting on his experience. You can follow Ben on MySQL Support Blogs.

The MySQL for Beginners course is available as:

• Training-on-Demand: Follow streaming video of instructor delivery and …

Want to leverage the high-speed load utilities, distinctive memory caches, full text indexes, and other performance-enhancing mechanisms that MySQL offers to fuel today's critical business systems.

The authentic MySQL Performance Tuning course, in 4 days, teaches you to evaluate the MySQL architecture, learn to use the tools, configure the database for performance, tune application and SQL code, tune the server, examine the storage engines, assess the application architecture, and learn general tuning concepts.

You can take this course in one the following three ways:

• Training-on-Demand: Access the streaming video, instructor delivery of this course from your own desk, at your own pace. Book time for hands-on practice when it suits you.
• Live-Virtual Class: Take this …

If you need 99.999% availability, real-time performance, auto-sharding and write scalability, geographic replication - using SQL and NoSQL applications then you should learn more about MySQL Cluster.

The authentic MySQL Cluster course brings you key conceptual and configuration information in a 3 day instructor led class.

Examples of class events already on the schedule:

Get started on the world's most popular open source database by taking the MySQL for Beginners training course. Students who have taken this 4 day course have described it as "perfect", "very useful", "just what I needed".

This instructor-led hands-on class covers the fundamentals of SQL and relational databases, introducing you to MySQL tools and features.

Take this class at a time and place adapted to you:

• From your home or office at a time suits you: With Training-on-Demand you can get started within 24-hrs with instructor delivery and hands-on exercises when you choose
• From your home or office at one of the 528! scheduled events: With the Live-Virtual delivery you attend a live instructor delivery without any travel costs
• At a teaching center: A sample of the events scheduled in different locations/languages is shown below:

The MySQL for Database Administrator course teaches you to secure users privileges, set resource limitations, access controls and describe backup and recovery basics. You also learn to create and use stored procedures, triggers, views and more. For the full course description go to the Oracle University portal and click on MySQL.

You can take this course:

- From your desk, at your own pace, as a Training-on-Demand offering - streaming video of instructor delivery, plus access to course environment to perform lab exercises

- From your desk, as a Live-Virtual Class - connecting with the instructor and other students through webex and phone, with access to course environment for lab exercises. There are hundreds of events scheduled so you can choose the date, timezone and language that suits you. See the full schedule on the …

Learn how to develop applications in PHP and how to use MySQL efficiently for those applications! Through a hands-on approach, this instructor-led course will help you improve your PHP skills and combine them with time-proven database management techniques to create best-of-breed web applications that are efficient, solid and secure.

You can take this 4 day class through:

• Live-Virtual Delivery: Take this course from your own desk. Over 200 events already on the schedule for a wide range of timezones.
• In-Class Delivery: Events on the schedule include:

Learn to design and implement modern applications, such as web or cloud applications, by following the MySQL for Developers Training Course which will teach you about essential SQL statements for data design, querying, and programming.

This 5 day instructor-led course is available via the following training methods:

• Live-Virtual Class: Follow this live class from your own office or home machine through one of the over 700 events currently on the schedule. To find the event that suits you go to http://oracle.com/education and click on MySQL.
• In-Class Teach: Travel to an Oracle classroom to follow this class. A sample of the schedule events is shown below:

Here are the top reasons to take the authorized MySQL Cluster training course:

• Take training which was developed by MySQL Cluster product team and delivered by the MySQL Cluster experts at Oracle
• Learn how to develop, deploy, manage and scale your MySQL Cluster applications more efficiently
• Keep your mission-critical applications and essential services up and running 24x7
• Deliver the highest performance and scalability using MySQL Cluster best practices

In this 3 day course, experienced database users learn the important details of clustering necessary to get started with MySQL Cluster, to properly configure and manage the cluster nodes to ensure high availability, to install the different nodes and provide a better understanding of the internals of the cluster.

To see the schedule for this course, go to the …

Get started on MySQL for Beginners training within 24 hours with the newly released MySQL for Beginners Training on Demand. With Training on Demand, you get:

- Trained by top MySQL Instructors

- Access to hands-on practice environment

- Full classroom content available 24/7

- And no travel expenses to worry about

The MySQL for Beginners course covers all the basics and gets you on your way with a solid foundation. This hands-on class covers the fundamentals of SQL and relational databases, using MySQL as a teaching tool.

In addition to the …

Get hands-on experience with techniques for tuning a MySQL Server with the Authorized MySQL Performance Tuning course. 

This course is designed for database administrators, database developers and system administrators who are responsible for managing, optimizing, and tuning a MySQL Server.

You can follow this live instructor led training:

• From your desk. Choose from among the 800+ events on the live-virtual training schedule.
• In a classroom. A selection of events/locations listed below