Ronald Bradford is a database architect and consultant whose relational database career began in 1989 with Ingres and Oracle. He is the author of the Oracle Press Effective MySQL series, including Optimizing SQL Statements (2011), Backup and Recovery (2012), and Replication Techniques in Depth, co-written with Chris Schneider. An Oracle ACE Director and a recipient of the MySQL Community Member of the Year award, he has been one of the most prolific MySQL bloggers and a frequent speaker at MySQL conferences and user groups.
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