January 15th through the 19th there will be a PostgreSQL hands-on certification training course in Las Vegas, NV. The course material covers Installing, running and administering PostgreSQL. The course will also cover security, backup and recovery, managing storage, performance tuning, maintenance and monitoring among other things. Attendees are encouraged to take the certification exam after the 5 day course. For additional details, or to sign up call CertFirst at (630) 684-0355.

If you are considering embedding a relational database in your software application or mobile hardware products, join Lee Stigile, Sales Engineer for MySQL AB in a Webinar January 4th, 2007. The web presentation will begin at 10pm PST. Practical use examples will be covered on storage engines, hardware storage and some examples on how to use views to hide sensitive data. With MySQL OEM’s increasing market share and lower memory footprint, this is definitely a must hear conference for anyone working in embedded or mobile database applications.

To register go to: http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/web-seminars/embedding-guide.php

According to a new report by Evans Data Corp, Microsoft’s SQL Server tops the chart in wireless applications at 30%. While MySQL Server ranks in second with 20% market share followed by Oracle. The report suggests that Oracle’s market share should increase over the next year. The report also found that 40% of wireless applications are location based services like GPS technology and Google Maps for example. The number one platform this year is cell phones at 47%, taking most of it’s market share from PDAs which have historically dominated the mobile applications market. With SQL Server CE and MySQL OEM under more development and exposure this year some exciting things are in store for the future of the mobile data market.