“Can't Miss” sessions

The “Can't Miss” sessions include:
· MySQL Stored Procedures Presented for First Time. MySQL stored procedures will presented for the first time publicly by the MySQL AB developer managing this important feature, Per Erik Martin.
· "A Guided Tour of the MySQL Source Code," by Michael "Monty" Widenius, MySQL AB co-founder and CTO and MySQL's Zak Greant.
· "The Anatomy of the MySQL Query Optimizer," by Monty Widenius and Igor Babaev.
· "MySQL Connector/J: Using MySQL from Java,” by Mark Matthews, MySQL AB developer, and creator of the popular MySQL JDBC driver, MM.MySQL.
· Paul DuBois, well-known MySQL author, will deliver a tutorial on using MySQL with Ruby, the powerhouse Open Source scripting language.
· Jeremy Zawodny, one of the world's most experienced MySQL users at Yahoo! Finance, will present tutorials on optimizing and replicating MySQL.
· David Harper & Ed Zuiderwijk from the Welcome Trust Sanger Institute will share how MySQL was instrumental in a project for decoding the DNA of many organisms responsible for deadly human diseases such as malaria, leprosy, typhoid fever and sleeping sickness.