Scott is a developer with over 20 years of experience in various languages. During that time, the only constant in his development stack has been MySQL. He has a passion for sharing what he has learned on his coding journey so others may learn from his mistakes.

Presentations

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Hidden Gems in MySQL Shell

MySQL Shell is a modern CLI for connecting to, and interacting with, MySQL Instances. But there is so much more!! In this session we will demonstrate some of the cooler, but lesser-known, features of MySQL Shell. These features include, but are not limited to: creating sandbox instances for testing, managing MySQL replication, and dumping data to (and loading data from) a cloud storage bucket.

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MySQL, JSON, & You: Perfect Together

Long before 'NoSQL' databases became all the rage, developers stored JSON in relational database tables. With the advent of the JSON data type, developers now have a powerful set of functions to update, retrieve, and filter data based on values stored in a JSON blob. In this session, we discuss storing JSON in our database and how the tools in MySQL can make that task a bit easier. 

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