Sheeri K. Cabral

Sheeri K. Cabral
Senior DB Admin/Architect, Mozilla Foundation

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Sheeri K. Cabral has a master’s degree in computer science specializing in databases from Brandeis University. She has background as a systems administrator; has worked with Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Solaris, RedHat/Fedora, AIX, and HP-UX. Unstoppable as a volunteer and activist since age 14, Cabral founded and organizes the Boston, Massachusetts, USA, MySQL User group, and produces OurSQL: The MySQL Database Podcast for the Community, by the Community. Keep up with all this at www.technocation.org

Sessions

8:30am Monday, 04/12/2010
MySQL Configuration Options and Files: Basic MySQL Variables (Part 1)
Architecture and Technology, Performance Tuning and Benchmarking, Security and Database Administration, Tutorial
 Location: Ballroom B
Sheeri K. Cabral (Mozilla Foundation)
Average rating: ***..
(3.25, 4 ratings)
Unlock all the information the MySQL server can give you! MySQL has many status variables that show how well your environment utilizes its resources. There are many system variables that can be set and changed to tune the server. Read more.
1:30pm Monday, 04/12/2010
MySQL Configuration Options and Files: Intermediate MySQL Variables (Part 2)
Architecture and Technology, Performance Tuning and Benchmarking, Security and Database Administration, Tutorial
 Location: Ballroom B
Sheeri K. Cabral (Mozilla Foundation)
Average rating: ***..
(3.38, 8 ratings)
Unlock all the information the MySQL server can give you! MySQL has many status variables that show how well your environment utilizes its resources. There are many system variables that can be set and changed to tune the server. Read more.
10:00am Wednesday, 04/14/2010
Under New Management: Next Steps for the Community
Keynote
 Location: Ballroom EFGH
Sheeri K. Cabral (Mozilla Foundation)
Average rating: **...
(2.09, 23 ratings)
Sheeri Cabral knows the MySQL Community. Working for the Pythian Group, she has tapped her co-workers' knowledge about the Oracle Community. In this brief community keynote, Sheeri maps out the differences between the communities and what we can expect next now that MySQL is "under new management". Read more.
4:25pm Wednesday, 04/14/2010
Time Zones and MySQL
General, Security and Database Administration
 Location: Ballroom A
Sheeri K. Cabral (Mozilla Foundation)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 1 rating)
MySQL data types do not support the SQL standard WITH TIME ZONE attribute. How do you store times in MySQL to efficiently show your customers times in their own time zone? Read more.
2:00pm Thursday, 04/15/2010
Find Query Problems Proactively With Query Reviews
Performance Tuning and Benchmarking
 Location: Ballroom A
Sheeri K. Cabral (Mozilla Foundation)
Average rating: ***..
(3.50, 4 ratings)
Query reviews are a great way to find potentially slow queries before they become a problem. A query review is like a code review, except instead of reviewing code, queries are reviewed. This presentation will show you how to use the Maatkit tool mk-query-digest to create a digest of queries. This digest can be a one-off report, or it can be saved to a database table. Read more.
MySQLtuner 2.0
Sheeri K. Cabral (Mozilla Foundation)
This ignite talk will go through how the the modified mysqltuner works including how easy it is to change what is checked and the thresholds.
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  • Monty Program
  • Calpont
  • Facebook
  • Gear6
  • Infobright, Inc
  • JasperSoft
  • Joyent
  • Kickfire
  • NorthScale, Inc.
  • Percona
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • Solid Quality Mentors (SolidQ)
  • Intel
  • Pentaho
  • Linux Pro Magazine

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