42SQL Education Packages

At 42SQL our team currently offers two (2) levels of instructional training in the best practices for the MySQL database administrator and MySQL software developer. These are:

Our training courses are designed to continually increase your knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the MySQL products while ensuring you learn both valuable tools and techniques in software management, problem solving and usage. Our courses are very hands on and your education includes how to do things correctly, what not to do, and how to identify, address and correct situations that many courses do not present.

We also ensure you receive a clear view of the MySQL landscape, both Sun/MySQL supplied products and other open source and commercial versions. Having a full picture of what is available provides valuable news and information for understanding the full MySQL ecosystem and the relative interaction between the community and companies involved.

About your Instructor

Ronald Bradford is a two-decade veteran with extensive database experience in MySQL, Oracle and Ingres. His expertise covers data architecture, software development, migration, performance analysis and production system implementations. With ten years experience in MySQL, his involvement in the MySQL ecosystem has included working as Senior Consultant with MySQL Inc, speaker at four MySQL Conferences, and creator of the “MySQL for Oracle DBA’s” one-day workshop. Ronald holds MySQL Certifications including DBA 5.0, Developer 5.0 and MySQL Cluster 5.1.



MySQL Essentials

The objective of MySQL Essentials training is to provide the necessary essentials for supporting a MySQL development environment and provide basic instructions for necessary MySQL administration tasks. The pre-requisite for MySQL Essentials course attendees is a general understanding and use of SQL. While no detailed knowledge of MySQL is required, any previous experience with installing, configuring and general use of MySQL is a distinct advantage.

This course will cover the following key objectives:

  1. MySQL Products & Product Variants
  2. MySQL Installation
  3. MySQL Setup
  4. MySQL Configuration
  5. Essential Backup & Recovery
  6. Essential Monitoring MySQL
  7. Configuration Management with MySQL

Our training includes a large amount of detailed hands on work. We look at the standard as well as the exception cases. You will learn ways to break MySQL in order to understand how to correct these types of installation and administration problems. Your MySQL Essentials training course will include 6-8 attendees.

A more detailed description of our key objectives for MySQL Essentials can be found here.


MySQL Essentials is a two (2) day training course, and represents great value at $895 per attendee.

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MySQL Operations

Day to day operations are critical for a working and successful website. As a MySQL Database Administrator there are many tasks that a software developer is not able to adequately support. MySQL Operations is specially designed to address these tasks.

The pre-requisites to attend MySQL Operations is a clear understanding of the basics of MySQL installation & configuration. Graduates of MySQL Essentials combined with additional hands on experience will be able to undertake the MySQL Operations course. All attendees will be pre-screened for suitability for this training. Students that have successfully completed the MySQL DBA Certification will be eligible.

  1. Monitoring your MySQL Installation
  2. Understanding MySQL Storage Engines
  3. Analyzing your MySQL environment
  4. Tuning MySQL and SQL Statements
  5. Securing the MySQL environment
  6. Volume Testing Principles
  7. Your daily/weekly/monthly checklists


MySQL Operations is a two (2) day training course, and is excellent value at $895 per attendee.

Please contact us for proposed training dates.





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