Jay Pipes

Jay Pipes

MySQL

Jay Pipes is the North American Community Relations Manager at MySQL. Co-author of Pro MySQL (Apress, 2005), Jay has also written articles for Linux Magazine and regularly assists software developers in identifying how to make the most effective use of MySQL. He has given sessions on performance tuning at the MySQL Users Conference, RedHat Summit, NY PHP Conference, OSCON, and Ohio LinuxFest, amongst others. He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, Julie, and his four animals. In his abundant free time, when not being pestered by his two needy cats and two noisy dogs, he daydreams in PHP code and ponders the ramifications of __clone().

Sessions

2:00pm - 3:00pm Wednesday, 04/16/2008
MySQL Performance Under a Microscope: The Tobias and Jay Show
Performance Tuning and Benchmarks
 Location: Ballroom F
Tobias Asplund (MySQL), Jay Pipes (MySQL)
In this session we'll put features that do the same thing up against each other and see which performs better. We find the optimal way to do smaller things. Everything is backed up by benchmarks and discussion. Read more.
10:50am - 11:50am Thursday, 04/17/2008
Future Design Hurdles to Tackle in the MySQL Server
Architecture and Technology
 Location: Ballroom C
Michael Widenius (MySQL), Jay Pipes (MySQL)
MySQL Fellow, Monty Widenius, will talk about the architectural and design challenges currently facing the MySQL server developers, including a bit of history behind why the architecture of MySQL looks the way it does. He will then talk about the future architecture of the MySQL server and the plans he and others have to solve the design issues of the present day. Read more.
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