MySQL Federal Migration Boot Camp:
Best Practices for Migrating Applications to MySQL

MySQL and Carahsoft invite you to a complimentary seminar providing you with sufficient training and knowledge transfer to enable IT Managers, Application Developers, Data Architects, and DBAs to plan and manage the migration of an application to MySQL in a production environment.

Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 Time: 8:15am - 12:00pm Birds of a Feather Luncheon: 12:00pm - 2:00pm **Registration starts at 7:30am** Location: Ronald Reagan Building 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004 Click here for directions

As more and more government agencies decide to harness the power and promise of MySQL Enterprise, the world's leading open source database solution, their IT Managers, Application Developers, Data Architects, and Database Administrators are surveying their data centers to identify which of their proprietary database applications should be migrated and how best to accomplish that task with minimal disruption to their operations.

• Ideal application candidates
• Migration process overview
• Migration assistance tools
• Specific migration issues
• Ideals for minimizing future migrations
• Best practices round table discussion

• IT Managers, Developers, or Data Architects who want to deploy and manage MySQL
• IT Managers, Developers, or Data Architects responsible for migrating existing applications to MySQL
• IT Managers, Developers, or Data Architects who want to modernize or webify legacy applications
• IT Managers, Developers, or Data Architects who want to meet and network with other Federal IT experts

• An introduction to MySQL and a MySQL Architecture review
• Why applications should be migrated to MySQL
• How to identify which applications are best suited to migrate to MySQL
• Best practices for migrating from proprietary databases to MySQL
• MySQL and third-party tools for migrating applications from proprietary databases to MySQL

• FREE! There is no cost to attend the MySQL Federal Migration Boot Camp
• (Savings of $1000 - Boot Camps typically cost $1000/day)

• Attendance is limited to the first 150 qualified IT Managers, Data Architects, Application Developers, and DBAs
• Food and beverages will be provided

If you have any questions or would like additional information about this event please email me at eric.updegrove@carahsoft.com.

Sincerely,

Eric Updegrove
Carahsoft Technology Corp.
703-871-8690 (Direct)
877-742-8468 ( Toll-Free)
eric.updegrove@carahsoft.com

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