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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.
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) <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:
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 and maintains 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:


* query profiling
* query profiling
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* an analog to the Unix "find" command, that can test and perform actions on database objects
* 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.
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. He has also released a set of templates to monitor MySQL under [[Cacti_(software)]].<ref>http://www.xaprb.com/blog/tag/cacti-templates/</ref>


== External links ==
== External links ==

Revision as of 01:29, 14 September 2008

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 and maintains 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. He has also released a set of templates to monitor MySQL under Cacti_(software).[5]