Hi,

We are planning a series of live webinars for the time slot which is convenient for APAC regions.

Have you concerned scalability or performance of MySQL in a production environment at a fast-growing company? Then, this is a chance to learn MySQL more! This series of webinars consists of four webinars which will explain MySQL features and resolve such concerns. Each webinar will introduce actual case studies and best practices to drive your understandings on MySQL. Also we will include descriptions on relative MySQL Enterprise purchase options at the end.

Planned Webinar Topics

1. High Availability/Scalability
2. Clustering
3. Monitoring/Backup/Recovery
4. Performance

*The above topics are subject to change.

1st Webinar Schedule

“MySQL High Availability/Scalability Solutions”

For the enterprise …

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Option 1
All database objects are defined in the logical form, that being singular.

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Option 2

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