Sheeri Cabral

Who is Sheeri Cabral?

Sheeri Cabral, née Kritzer, is a MySQL community contributor. She was chosen as the first Oracle ACE Director for MySQL. She won the MySQL Community Advocate, Communicator and Facilitator award in 2007 and again in 2008 for her frequent blog posts, community work, and conference/user group presentations; this sparked a keynote presentation for the 2009 MySQL User Conference & Expo on "How to be a Community Superhero". She delivered another community keynote entitled, "Under New Management: Next Steps for the Community" at the same conference in 2010. In 2012, she won the MySQL Community Award again for her work founding and co-hosting the OurSQL podcast.

Cabral wrote the MySQL Administrator's Bible, and has edited the O'Reilly books SQL Hacks, High Performance MySQL 2nd edition, and C.J. Date's How to Write Accurate SQL Code. Cabral developed and maintains a new version of mysqltuner.

Cabral has a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Brandeis University and is MySQL 5.0 DBA Certified and MySQL Core Certified.