MySQL Marinate has started strong and it is not too late for you to join!
Join the MySQL Marinate self study group. We are only in week two and you can easily catch up with the rest of the class.
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Open Source DBA's Blog
Help for MySQL DBAs
Dave Stokes -- MySQL Community Manager
My speaking events
2020 pre-FOSDEM MySQL Day Sunshine PHP DevWeek Oakland PHP UK ConFoo SCaLE Midwest PHP 2019 Benelux PHP Fosdem Sunshine PHP PyCaribbeab PHP UK Southern California Linux Expo ChickTech Austin Confoo Drupalcon Opensource 101 Linuxfest Northwest Longhorn PHP PHPTeK Percona Live Texas Linuxfest Southeast Linuxfest 2018 Sunshine PHP PHP UK San Diego PHP SCaLE Chick Tech Austin PHP Yorkshire Longhorn PHP Percona Live Linuxfest Northwest Woburn Mass PHPTek SyntaxConf Southeast Linxufest DFW Unix User Group Detroit PHP Southeast PHP Swanseacon Cascadia PHP Wave PHP Little Rock Tech Fest Symfony Live US Zendcon Oracle Open World/Code One Madison PHP PHP World Oracle Code One 2017
Sunshine PHP
Miami
Feb 2-4thRMOUG Training Days
Denver
Feb 7-9Linux Foundation Leadership Summit
Lake Tahoe
February 14-16thSCaLE
Pasaadena, CA
March 2-5thPHP Yorkshire
York
April 8thLondon MySQL Meetup
London April 11thLinuxfest Northwest
Bellingham, Wa
May 6 & 7PHPTek
Atlanta
May 24-27thSoutheast Linxufest
Charlotte, NC
June 9-11UKOUG Scotland
Glasgow June 22ndDFWUUG
July 2ndAzPHP
July 13Northeast PHP
CharlottetownPhoenix PHP
PhoenixPacific Northwest PHP
SeattleSwanseacon
Sep 25th, 26thAll Things Open
Oct 23rd-25thZendcon
Oct 24th-26thScotland PHP
Nov 4thPHP[World]
Nov 14th-16thPyTexas
Nov 18th-19thConFoo Vancouver
Dec 4-7th
2016
SkiPHP Sandy Utah Skiphp.com Jan 14-15
San Diego PHP Meetup
Carlsbad CaliforniaJan 19th
Southern California Linux Expo
Pasadena California
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x
January 21-24thFOSDEM
Brussels Belgium
https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/track/mysql_and_friends/
January 30-31stRMOUG Training Days
Denver
February 10-12thGreat Wide Open
Atlanta
March 16-18thCollaborate 16
Las Vegas
April 12-14thPercona Live
Santa Clara
April 18-21stLinuxfest Northwest
Bellingham, WA
April 23-24thMySQL Innovation Day
Oracle HQ
April 25thPHPTek
St Louis
May 25-28thSoutheast Linuxfest
Charlotte
June 10-12Texas Linxufdest
Austin
July 8-9Converge/B-Sides
Detroit
June 14-16thNortheast PHP
Charlottetown
August 4-6thLinuxcon NA
Toronto
August 22nd-24thSwanseacon
Swansea
September 12-13thOracle OpenWorld
San Francisco
September 19-22ndDrupalcon Dublin
Dublin
September 26-30thOctober 7-8th
Zendcon
Las Vegas
October 18-20thAll Things Open
Raleigh
October 26-27Scotland PHP
Edinburgh
October 29thContainercon NYC
NYC
November 3-4SeaGL
Seattle
November 11-12PHP World
Washington, D.C.
November 14-17DFWUUG
Coppel, TX
December 1stConfoo
Vancouver
December 3-7
Open Source DBA's Blog 
Yep! the first three weeks are intro, install MySQL, and connect to MySQL. Week 4, which officially is Jan 22-28, starts doing data modeling. (I say ‘officially’ because the times are a guideline, there’s no bonus or penalty for being early or late).