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Five-Six-Four — Dave and Keith will soon head out the door!
MySQL 5.6.4 & MySQL Cluster 7.2 availbale from http://Labs.MySQL.Com MySQL 5.6.4 Development Milestones are ready for your review. This week there are seven 5.6.4 releases to try plus MySQL Cluster...
View ArticleOptimizing InnoDB for creating 30,000 tables (and nothing else)
Once upon a time, it would have been considered madness to even attempt to create 30,000 tables in InnoDB. That time is now a memory. We have customers with a lot more tables than a mere 30,000. There...
View ArticleLog Buffer #251, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
New Year is the time to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the coming year. It is the time to remember the golden olden blog posts. It is the time for new beginnings and new starts in life, and...
View ArticleLoad balancing for PHP and MySQL
A single MySQL server is a single point of failure. A single MySQL server can only be scaled vertically by increasing hardware size, which has its limits. That’s two good reasons to migrate from a...
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Improving InnoDB memory usage continued
Continues from Improving InnoDB memory usage. Here are some numbers from the fixups described in the above article: The workload consists of 10 partitioned tables, each one containing 1000 partitions....
View ArticlePHP MySQL documentation updates
The MySQL part of the PHP reference manual is currently being restructured: new landing and overview page, mysqli quickstart prepared. Ten years ago, there was the mysql extension and that was it....
View ArticleSAP Netweaver 7.0, ERP 6.0, CRM 5.0, CRM 2007, SCM 5.0, SCM 5.1, SRM 5.0 are...
The SAP ABAP components for SAP Netweaver 7.0 SAP ERP 6.0 (including Enhancement Package 2 and 3) SAP CRM 5.0 SAP CRM 2007(6.0) SAP SCM 5.0 (liveCache Server 7.6 is not supported) SAP SCM 5.1...
View ArticleOnline MySQL Configuration Wizard from Percona
Merry Christmas! Just in time for the holidays, we have released a new tool to help you configure and manage your MySQL servers. Our online MySQL Configuration Wizard can help you generate a good basic...
View ArticleLearning to love the InnoDB Lock Monitor
A customer opened a support issue to ask about some help determining why they were seeing a lot of Lock Wait Timeouts. I asked them to enable the InnoDB Lock Monitor so that I could get a look at what...
View ArticleMetrics for compressed InnoDB tables
For compressed InnoDB tables pages are compressed when in the InnoDB buffer pool. To improve performance uncompressed copies of the pages might be in the buffer pool. Because compressed pages are...
View ArticleSolving INFORMATION_SCHEMA slowness
Many of us find INFORMATION_SCHEMA painfully slow to work it when it comes to retrieving table meta data. Many people resort to using file system tools instead to find for example how much space innodb...
View ArticleMySQL Connector/Net 6.5.0 beta has been released
MySQL Connector/Net 6.5.0, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released. This is a beta release of our newest connector and comes with several new features. It is of beta...
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MariaDB 5.3.3 RC released.
Just in time for Christmas, we have made MariaDB 5.3.3 Release candidate available for download.Looking at the number of changes and new features, MariaDB 5.3 is probably the biggest milestone release...
View ArticleWrapping up MariaDB 2011
Parts of the world are already celebrating Christmas Eve and it’s time to relax and spend time with family and friends. Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas this is when there is time for less work....
View ArticleOurSQL Episode 71: Table Manners, part 2
This week, we continue our discussion about MySQL and its forks. We discuss the Percona server and MariaDB. Percona Live comes to Washington, DC on Wednesday, January 11th, 2012 at the Walter E....
View ArticleMySQL Workbench 5.2.37 GA Released
The MySQL Developer Tools team is announcing the next maintenance release of it’s flagship product, MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.37. This release contains 21 bug fixes, including a fix for a slowdown...
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Explaining Indexes with a Library Metaphor - Reloaded
I wanted to build on the metaphor I used to explain indexes and continue a bit further into disk and memory usage. Sorting without index cards Let us say that we would like to get a list of all books...
View ArticleMySQL Training in Frankfurt, Germany
We will be holding our highly acclaimed MySQL workshops in Frankfurt, Germany the week of February 13th. Early registration is open; enroll toady and secure your seat. Detail and enrollment can be...
View ArticleProfiling your slow queries using pt-query-digest and some love from Percona...
This guide will get you up and running with how to identify the bottleneck queries using the excellent tool pt-query-digest. You will learn how to use and analyze the output returned by...
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High Availability for your ScaleBase instance
Recently some customers running on Amazon EC2 asked me how to configure a HA environment for their ScaleBase instance. For instance, let’s look at the following architecture: To ensure that Scalebase...
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