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MySQL Training UK: MySQL Courses at GBdirect

This section of our training site provides details of the MySQL training courses that we deliver in the UK. At present, this section consists mostly of the MySQL course outlines that you can see links for in the indented menu to the left (i.e. below the bit of black text saying ‘MySQL training courses’, to indicate the current page).

In the long run we hope to fill out our MySQL training pages with details about the capabilities of the MySQL database, about MySQL migration issues, and about MySQL certification. This information will include training roadmaps for skills development in MySQL and related open source technologies like PHP.

In the meantime, we’d like to address some questions that are likely interest prospective MySQL trainees:

  1. Why should I acquire skills in MySQL, rather than Oracle, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, etc?
  2. What distinguishes a GBdirect MySQL training course from MySQL courses offered by other training companies?
  3. Which MySQL training course best suits to my requirement?

Why MySQL Training?

When our consultants are asked to recommend an RDBMS, their stock response is to ask: “What do you want the database to do?”, “What skills have you already got?” “What database systems have you already committed resources and data to?”

We are most likely to recommend an investment in MySQL training, if you are resourcing a new project, especially one with a web focus, because supporting database-driven websites is one of the things that MySQL does best. MySQL is probably the world’s most popular website backend (on all major operating systems, Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac, etc), because it is stunningly fast at reading data, i.e. the thing that data-driven websites do most of the time. The price isn’t bad either!

MySQL is also a pretty good choice for generic database applications in small and medium sized business (SME/SMB) environments, providing power and reliability beyond the likes of MS Access, and price/performance advantages over unecessarily heavy duty RDBMSes like Oracle, DB2 and SQL Server.

MySQL is not currently the best choice for massively complex data centre operations in very large enterprises (e.g. processing hundreds of millions of records in highly interdependent systems), but it is rapidly acquiring many of the features which have previously excluded it from this domain (e.g. transactions, sub-selects, triggers, etc). Although most of these features appear in the latest MySQL development releases, we are not yet confident enough of their maturity to recommend them for the largest business-critical applications.

Why GBdirect MySQL Training?

Well, unlike most of the other training companies in this field, we and our clients have been running serious business operations on MySQL since the mid-1990s. Web sites and ecommerce applications that we’ve built using MySQL have done millions of pounds worth of business and have handled millions of page impressions per day, without drawing breath.

Like any database, MySQL has its quirks, but having worked with it over so many years and so many increasingly capable versions, we like to think that our MySQL trainers have more experience than most in coaxing it into doing the right thing.

In all the years that our consultants have been deploying and integrating MYSQL applications, they have also been developing and teaching the MySQL courses that we offer here, i.e. our MySQL training has been tried and tested in battle by real teachers, real students and real users.

Finally, we practice what we preach when it comes to open standards compliance and cross-platform portability. GBdirect MySQL training courses are taught pretty-much identically on Windows, Linux or Unix and are designed for maximum practical compliance with the ANSI/ISO SQL standards (SQL-92 and SQL-99). Indeed, the differences between MySQL on Windows and Linux is so miniscule that we can have delegates using both operating systems in the same classroom. Where MySQL differs significantly from the SQL standard or other variants of SQL, our MySQL training courses try to flag up the major problems and workarounds.

MySQL public courses schedule

Introduction to MySQL, three days (course outline)

Central London — £895 (+VAT)

  • 28–30 May 2008
  • 14–16 Jul 2008
  • 1–3 Sep 2008

MySQL for Developers I, two days (course outline)

Central London — £675 (+VAT)

  • 16–17 Jun 2008
  • 4–5 Aug 2008

MySQL for Developers 2, three days (course outline)

Central London — £895 (+VAT)

  • 18–20 Jun 2008
  • 6–8 Aug 2008

MySQL for Developers, five days (course outline)

Central London — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 16–20 Jun 2008
  • 4–8 Aug 2008

MySQL Database Administration, five days (course outline)

Central London — £1495 (+VAT)

  • 23–27 Jun 2008
  • 11–15 Aug 2008

MySQL training UK enquiries

UK Training enquiries and feedback form.

MySQL training UK prices

For publicly scheduled training (individual places), see our UK training schedule.

In-house training for company groups is charged at a daily rate per group — see our In-House UK Training Guidelines.

Publicly Scheduled Training Locations

We currently run public training courses in the following locations:

  • London, UK
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
  • Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
  • Carshalton, Surrey, UK
  • Chester, North West, UK
  • Coventry, West Midlands, UK
  • Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  • Glasgow, Scotland, UK
  • Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK
  • Manchester, North West, UK
  • Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK
  • Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK
  • Reading, Berkshire, UK
  • Slough, Berkshire, UK
  • Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK
  • Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK
  • Wokingham, Berkshire, UK

Most UK public training courses are available on a monthly basis.

Please see the individual course outlines or our public training schedule for details.

In-house (on-site) training locations

We deliver in-house courses at client premises and/or training facilities in any part of the world which is practically and commercially accessible.

Our In-house training guidelines outline our basic requirements and our UK pricing structure. To estimate costs for training in other countries, simply convert to your local currency and then make a rough calculation of our tutor's costs for travelling to and staying at your location.


West Yorkshire Office

GBdirect Ltd
Training Division
Bradford Design Exchange
34 Peckover Street
BRADFORD
BD1 5BD
West Yorkshire
United Kingdom

training@gbdirect.co.uk

Training: 0800 651 0338
General: +44 (0)870 200 7273
Finance: +44 (0)1353 615 174

Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday


South East Regional Office

GBdirect Ltd
Training Division
18 Lynn Rd
ELY
CB6 1DA
Cambridgeshire
United Kingdom

training@gbdirect.co.uk

Training: 0800 651 0338
General: +44 (0)870 200 7273
Finance: +44 (0)1353 615 174

Please call between 0900 and 1700 (UK time) on Monday to Friday


Please note:
Non-training enquiries should be directed, initially, to our UK national office in Bradford (West Yorkshire), even if the enquiry concerns services delivered in London or South/East England. Clients in London and the South East will typically be handled by staff working in the London or Cambridge areas.