MySQL is used everywhere, from managing work assignments and project planning to tracking every artist's work and megabyte of storage. It is even used to get feedback on last night's dinner.

The film industry is generally a pretty low tech environment, so when it meets a high-tech facility like Weta Digital, many of the manual processes are eliminated. MySQL is the corner stone for this approach.

On the high-tech end of the scale, Weta Digital needs to track hundreds of millions of files. Data needs to be made available to literally thousands of machines over high-speed networks. Not only is performance critical, but the sanctity of the data as well so many of the new features in the recent releases of MySQL have been eagerly awaited.