Making the impossible: 3 nodes intercontinental replication
In this post I want to show new possibilities which open with Percona XtraDB Cluster. We will create 3 nodes Cluster with nodes on different continents (Europe, USA, Japan) and each node will accept...
View ArticleSee you at LCA2012
Linux.conf.au this year kicks off next week in Ballarat, just down the road from me. I'll be there and even have a speaking gig, not in the main conference but in the HA and Distributed Storage...
View ArticleUpcoming talks
Over the last few weeks I had been quite silent, but that's about to change: Over the next few weeks I'll give a few presentations. Feel free to join any of those. January, 18th: Erstellung...
View ArticleMySQL Enterprise Backup: Redo-log-only Incremental Backups
The latest release of MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB 3.7.0) introduces a new method for performing incremental hot backups - the redo-log-only incremental backup. This new method of incremental backups...
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Who wants to write a storage engine?
LevelDB is here. It might make an interesting storage engine for MySQL as it has many performance benefits at the cost of a few limitations: no multi-statement transactions and MyISAM-like concurrency....
View ArticlePHP mysqli quickstart is online!
New in the PHP manual: a mysqli quickstart. You are new to PHP but you know how to code, you know SQL, you know relational databases and MySQL? Then, I hope, this is for you. All you need is a quick...
View Articlerows_examined UNION Handler% ... ?!?
A customer recently asked if I could help clarify the relationship between rows_examined (in the slow query log) and the Handler% variables (in SHOW STATUS output) for a simple UNION. I didn't know...
View ArticleCreate 3 nodes XtraDB Cluster in 3 minutes
I understand that the new technology can be scaring and this makes entry barriers to try and get familiar with it. That’s why I created simple set of scripts which setup N nodes cluster on running EC2...
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On my way to LCA2012
I'm starting the first leg of a literal `round-the-world business trip.I'm flying from my home in Seattle, via LAX, to Melbourne Australia. There I will meet up with my friend Stewart Smith, the...
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Want to become MySQL certified - join our upcomming training!
Upcoming MySQL Training - join the MySQL trainig at Oracle University!MySQL for Database Administrators:6 Februari, 19 Februari, 27 Februari, 12 Mars, 19 Mars, 16 AprilMySQL Performance Tuning:24...
View ArticleLog Buffer #254, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
After having party and festive time during holidays, bloggers are returning with reinvigorated zest and with uplifted zeal and the blogs are sprouting energy and promise. The new year is already here...
View ArticleMySQL Cluster training Jan 24 - 26 in DC
We still have a few seats left for our MySQL Cluster training in Washington DC January 24 - 26. If you're interested in learning about MySQL Cluster, the architecture, how to install it, administer it...
View ArticleOurSQL Episode 74: Off the Charts, part 1
This week we kick off a multi-part series on monitoring. In this episode we discuss the MySQL Enterprise Monitor offering from Oracle and the MONyog offering from Webyog. News The Independent Oracle...
View ArticleHigh Performance MySQL Third Edition pre-order available
You can pre-order the new edition of High Performance MySQL now on Amazon or via O’Reilly’s website. Eric Bergen called the second edition “the best MySQL book on the planet“. What will the third...
View ArticlePercona testing: Quick test clusters with kewpie!
The announcement of Percona XtraDB Cluster seems to have generated a fair bit of interest : ) Although the documentation contains more formal instructions for setting up a test cluster, I wanted to...
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PHP mysqlnd query cache plugin quickstart is online!
New in the PHP manual: a quickstart for the mysqlnd query cache plugin. PECL/mysqlnd_qc, the mysqlnd query cache plugin, is transparent and ease to use. But, how? Some pointers have been given in...
View ArticleAnnouncing Percona Server 5.5.19-24.0
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.19-24.0 on January 13th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.19, including...
View ArticleMariaDB 5.3: documentation updated
With MariaDB 5.3.3 Release Candidate out of the door, I could give some attention to documentation and improve the master What is MariaDB 5.3 page and pages linked from it. I think the part about...
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Why is searching the manual so hard
As a consultant I often use the MySQL Reference Manual to provide additional information for clients. I am very happy to recognize the quality of the content in the MySQL documentation, but why is the...
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Changes to Mondrian's caching architecture
I checked in some architectural changes to Mondrian's cache this week.First the executive summary:1. Mondrian should do the same thing as it did before, but scale up better to more concurrent queries...
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