Charles Bell is a software engineer on the Oracle MySQL development team, where he has led work on MySQL Utilities and on backup and replication. He is the author of Expert MySQL, a guide to extending and modifying the MySQL server source code, of Introducing MySQL Shell, and of MySQL Database Service Revealed (2022), on running MySQL in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. With Mats Kindahl and Lars Thalmann he co-authored MySQL High Availability, and he has also written several books on MicroPython and embedded systems.
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