With MySQL 5.5, the InnoDB storage engine is now the default for all MySQL users. There are a lot of myths surrounding this engine ('slower at reads', 'only use it if you need foreign keys or transactions'). We will be going straight in to discussing the internals, such as what the transaction log files do, and how multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) works.
Morgan Tocker
Morgan is a MySQL Expert, with interests in Performance Tuning, Scalability, and High Availability. He is a regular speaker on these topics at MySQL (and PHP) conferences in the United States and Canada.
Before joining Percona, Morgan worked as a Technical Instructor for MySQL (and then Sun Microsystems) in Canada, where he taught courses on High Availability, Performance Tuning, and Database Administration. He has also previously worked in the MySQL Support Team, and provided DRBD support.