Sveta Smirnova is a co-author, with Alkin Tezuysal, of MySQL Cookbook, 4th Edition (O’Reilly, 2022) and the author of MySQL Troubleshooting. At the time of the book she was a principal support escalation specialist at Percona. Her main professional interests include problem-solving, working with tricky issues, and teaching others how to deal effectively with MySQL problems, bugs, and gotchas. She has spoken at many events, including FOSDEM, Percona Live, and Oracle OpenWorld.
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