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In this section, we will briefly examine the major utility libraries and compare their capabilities. We will then dive into the new MySQL Utilities library and examine each utility in depth. The session will focus on the following topics.
Note: a working knowledge of Python may be helpful in viewing this session.
Dr. Charles A Bell is a Senior Software Engineer at Oracle. He is currently the lead developer for MySQL utilities and a member of the MySQL Backup and Replication team.
He is co-author of the book MySQL High Availability (O’Reilly Media, Inc.)
He lives in a small town in rural Virginia with his loving wife. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2005. His research interests include database systems, versioning systems, agile software development, and open source hardware.
Mats Kindahl lead software developer at MySQL/Oracle. He is the main architect and implementor of the MySQL row-based replication and several other replication features.
He is co-author of the book MySQL High Availability (O’Reilly Media, Inc.)
In the time before starting at MySQL, he has worked with research in formal methods, automated program analysis, distributed systems, and as implementor of C/C++ compilers.