Baron Schwartz

Baron Schwartz is a software engineer most notable for his contributions to the MySQL database. He is currently a performance consultant at Percona, Inc. and lives in Charlottesville, VA, USA.

Schwartz is a co-author of High Performance MySQL, 2nd ed. (published 2008, O'Reilly) [http://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-MySQL-Optimization-Load-balancing/dp/0596101716] . He developed and maintains Innotop [http://sourceforge.net/projects/innotop/] , an open source interactive monitoring tool for MySQL and InnoDB, and the Ma'atkit toolkit for MySQL [http://www.maatkit.org] , which includes tools for:

* query profiling
* duplicate key checking
* table checksum and sync
* parallel dump and restore
* replication heartbeat
* replication delay
* replication slave automatic restarting
* replication pre-fetching, to warm slave caches
* a tree-formatted query analyzer
* deadlock logging
* archiving data
* showing permissions for multiple database users
* an analog to the Unix "find" command, that can test and perform actions on database objects

Schwartz won MySQL's 2008 MySQL Code Contributor of the Year Award [http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/awards/community-2008.html] for Ma'atkit. He has also released a set of templates to monitor MySQL under Cacti_(software). [http://www.xaprb.com/blog/tag/cacti-templates/]

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External links

* [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2850 O'Reilly's Author Biography of Baron Schwartz]