Baron Schwartz is an American software engineer

Software engineer

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 most notable for his contributions to the MySQL

MySQL

MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...

 database. He is currently Chief Performance Architect at Percona, Inc. and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

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Schwartz is the lead author of High Performance MySQL, 2nd ed. (published 2008, O'Reilly). He contributed a chapter to Web Operations (published 2010, O'Reilly).

He created the Maatkit

Maatkit

Maatkit is a toolkit for users, developers, and administrators of MySQL an open-source database. All tools are standalone, with minimal dependencies and no need for installation. You can simply download them and use them. It makes MySQL easier and safer to manage. It provides simple, predictable...

 toolkit for MySQL, for which he received MySQL's 2008 MySQL Code Contributor of the Year Award. He has released a set of templates to monitor MySQL under Cacti. He developed and maintains Innotop, an open source interactive monitoring tool for MySQL and InnoDB

InnoDB

InnoDB is the default storage engine for MySQL as of MySQL 5.5. It provides the standard ACID-compliant transaction features, along with foreign key support...

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External links

• Talkin to Baron Sun
  Sun Microsystems
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  's George Barton interviews Baron Schwartz
• Author Biography from O'Reilly Media
  O'Reilly Media
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