MySQL 5.7 & JSON: New Opportunities for Developers

Description

Celebrating the 20 years of MySQL, Tomas Ulin, Vice President of MySQL Engineering at Oracle, will review what's new in MySQL 5.7. He will then focus on the newly added JSON support, enabling developers to combine the flexibility of NoSQL with the strength of a relational database. Tomas will explain the new JSON datatype, and the new set of functions for handling JSON documents, available storage and indexing options. In addition, he will present benchmarks showing how much one can expect from the MySQL server in different use case scenarios.

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Tomas Ulin, Vice President of MySQL Engineering, Oracle Tomas Ulin has been working with the MySQL Database team since 2003, and is currently employed by Oracle, based in Sweden. He is Vice President for the MySQL Engineering team, responsible for the development and maintenance of the MySQL related software products within Oracle, such as the MySQL Database, MySQL Cluster, MySQL Connectors, MySQL Workbench, MySQL Enterprise Backup, and MySQL Enterprise Monitor. Prior to working with MySQL he has a background in the telecom industry, working for the Swedish telecom operator Telia and Telecom vendor Ericsson. He has a Masters degree in Computer Science and Applied Physics from Case Western Reserve University and a PhD in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology.