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Sheeri Cabral

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Full Name
  
Sheeri Kritzer

Employer
  
Mozilla Corporation

Known for
  
MySQL

Occupation
  
Senior DBA

Education
  
Brandeis University

Nationality
  
USA

Name
  
Sheeri Cabral

Residence
  
Boston area, MA

Height
  
5'3"



Born
  
17 September 1978 (age 45) (
1978-09-17
)
Ridgewood, NJ

Title
  
Database Administrator/Architect

Books
  
MySQL Administrator's Bible

Mysql query optimization with explain by sheeri cabral of mozilla


Sheeri Cabral (born 17 September 1978), née Kritzer, is a MySQL community contributor. She was chosen as the first Oracle ACE Director for MySQL. She won the MySQL Community Advocate, Communicator and Facilitator award in 2007 and again in 2008 for her frequent blog posts, community work, and conference/user group presentations; this sparked a keynote presentation for the 2009 MySQL User Conference & Expo on "How to be a Community Superhero". She delivered another community keynote entitled, "Under New Management: Next Steps for the Community" at the same conference in 2010. In 2012, she won the MySQL Community Award again for her work founding and co-hosting the OurSQL podcast.

Contents

Cabral wrote the MySQL Administrator's Bible, and has edited the O'Reilly books SQL Hacks(2007), High Performance MySQL 2nd edition(2008), and C.J. Date's How to Write Accurate SQL Code. Cabral developed a new version of mysqltuner (with permission from Major Hayden for the name), which led to developing the mysql_health check Nagios plugin.

Cabral has a master's degree in Computer Science from Brandeis University and is MySQL 5.0 DBA Certified and MySQL Core Certified.

Mysql and puppet by sheeri cabral


Other notable work

  • Program Committee Member for the Open Source Convention (OSCon) for 2011 and 2012
  • IOUG MySQL Council Member, 2011–present
  • MySQL Track Manager for Collaborate 2011
  • Organizer of OpenSQLCamp Boston
  • Program Committee Member for the 2010 MySQL User Conference & Expo
  • Organizer of the 2009 MySQL Camp
  • Boston MySQL User Group Founder and frequent speaker
  • Technocation, Inc Founder and Treasurer 2004–2017
  • Volunteer DBA work for The Human Creativity Project
  • MySQL Podcast ("OurSQL"), November 2006 – February 2009, December 2010 – June 2015 (founder and co-host to over 200 episodes)
  • Cabral has worked as a Systems Administrator for Tufts University; a Database Administrator for Guardium, Inc, Manhunt.net and The Pythian Group, a Database Operations Manager for PalominoDB, Inc., and a Senior Database Administrator/Architect, then Data Team Manager at Mozilla. She currently works as a Senior Database Administrator for Salesforce .

    References

    Sheeri Cabral Wikipedia