Welcome to Well House Consultants' website. We offer training courses in a variety of Open Source subjects, including SQL and MySQL , which is the technology that we're covering on this page. Please follow one of the links at the top of the page if you're looking for another of our technologies.

Courses run at our own training centre in Melksham, Wiltshire, England. Because many of our subjects are niche, we also provide overnight accommodation in our own hotel rooms within our training centre, and you may book the course and accommodation as a single package.

We run public courses, each of which is scheduled to run from 3 to 9 times per year, and on which we accept bookings from different organisations and individuals who wish to learn about SQL and MySQL following our published agenda. Public courses are all written by ourselves, lead by our own tutor, and limited to just eight delegates per course so that the tutor has plenty of time to answer any questions that arise, and provide personal support during practical sessions.

We also run private courses for individual companies / organisations. Private courses are scheduled to suit our client's needs, and can run at our training centre or at customer premises almost anywhere in the world. Because our course materials are written by ourselves and modular, we can tailor private courses to suit our client's needs.

MySQL is a database engine that's robust and efficient, easy to install and learn, secure, and available on many operating systems both under Open Source and Commercial licenses.

At Well House Consultants, we run:

• A 2 day public MySQL course that introduces you to the installation, use and administration of the MySQL database, and covers database design and how MySQL is used from PHP, Perl, Python and Java. These are the topics that you'll need to know about if you're a programmer who's writing or maintaining code in one of those languages (or another language), or if you're going to be a DB Admin for a straightforward MySQL site.

If you've a group of three or more delegates who wish to learn about MySQL at the same time, a Specially Run Courses course can be arranged, and for larger groups we can also run a Private Courses course at your offices. Such courses are tailored to meet your requirements - please contact us to discuss the detail of what you need.

You'll not be surprised to learn that MySQL databases are behind many of the pages on this web site. Our course booking system uses them, our diary is maintained through them, and the data and even the images for our daily tips and techniques are managed by MySQL.

MySQL was written and maintained by MySQL AB. They were bought out by Sun, who in turn have been taken over by Oracle. So MySQL, although Open Source, is now an Oracle product too.