Baron Schwartz

Percona Inc.

Baron is a co-author of High Performance MySQL 2nd edition, and creator of innotop and Maatkit (formerly called MySQL Toolkit). He blogs frequently under his online alias Xaprb. Formerly with The Rimm-Kaufman Group, Baron now works for Percona, a consulting firm that helps customers build high-performance applications with MySQL.

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2:00pm - 3:00pm Tuesday, 04/15/2008

EXPLAIN Demystified

Architecture and Technology, General, Performance Tuning and Benchmarks
Location: Ballroom D

Baron Schwartz (Percona Inc.)

EXPLAIN is one of MySQL's most-used and least-understood features, and it's not documented fully. This session helps EXPLAIN make sense by showing how it really maps to a query execution plan. Read more.

3:05pm - 3:50pm Wednesday, 04/16/2008

The MySQL Query Cache

Architecture and Technology
Location: Ballroom F

Baron Schwartz (Percona Inc.)

Understanding and tuning the query cache can be daunting. It's not really complicated; it only seems that way. Baron will explain it in ways you'll understand and remember. Read more.

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