MySQL expert and trainer, Sarah Sproehnle, will discuss the major MySQL design decisions that can affect the performance of your application and with it, your customers' experience and satisfaction. Sarah will show you how to achieve top performance with MySQL Embedded Server, covering the following topics:

• Choose the right storage engine(s)
• Identify critical performance-related server settings
• Understand and properly use indexes
• Using EXPLAIN to verify query execution plans
• How to identify performance problems

As the MySQL Master Instructor for North America, Sarah has been training people on MySQL for many years with courses ranging from database administration and SQL development to high availability and performance tuning.