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


* query profiling
http://forge.mysql.com/projects/project.php?id=172
* duplicate key checking
Query Profiler
* table checksum and sync
Duplicate index/foreign key finder
* parallel dump and restore
http://forge.mysql.com/projects/project.php?id=157
* 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 <ref>http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/awards/community-2008.html</ref> for Ma'atkit.
O'Reilly's Author Biography Site
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2850


== External links ==
2008 MySQL Community Award
* [http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/mysql_conf08_talkin_to_baron Sun's George Barton Interviews Baron Schwartz]
http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/awards/community-2008.html


Sun's George Barton Interviews Baron Schwartz
* [http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2850 O'Reilly's Author Biography of Baron Schwartz]
http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/mysql_conf08_talkin_to_baron

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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) [1]. He developed Innotop [2], an open source interactive monitoring tool for MySQL and InnoDB, and the Ma'atkit toolkit for MySQL [3], 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 [4] for Ma'atkit.