Practical MySQL Indexing guidelines by Stéphane Combaudon
Stéphane Combaudon of Dailymotion. Index: separate data structure to speed up SELECTs. Think of index in a book. In MySQL, key=index. Consider that indexes are trees. InnoDB’s clustered index – data is...
View ArticleOptimizing your InnoDB buffer pool usage by Steve Hardy
Steve Hardy of Zarafa. Work that has been done to make Zarafa better. Why do you optimise your buffer pool? To decrease your I/O load. How can you do it? Buy more RAM, page compression, less (smaller)...
View ArticleMySQL Creatively in a Sandbox by Giuseppe Maxia
Giuseppe Maxia of Continuent and long time creator of MySQL Sandbox. Only works on Unix-like servers. Works with MySQL, Percona & MariaDB servers. MySQL server has the data directory, the port and...
View ArticleReplication features of 2011 by Sergey Petrunia
Sergey Petrunia of the MariaDB project & Monty Program. MySQL 5.5 GA at the end of 2010. MariaDB 5.3 RC towards the end of 2011 (beta in June 2011). MySQL 5.5 is merged to Percona Server 5.5 which...
View ArticleManaging MySQL with Percona Toolkit by Frédéric Descamps
Frédéric Descamps of Percona. Percona Toolkit is Maatkit & Aspersa combined. Opensource and the tools are very useful for a DBA. You need Perl, DBI, DBD::mysql, Term::ReadKey. Most tools are...
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The Agony of Big Transactions in the MySQL Binlog
Databases fail in interesting ways. About a week ago I was called in on a support case for Tungsten Enterprise. We were getting failures in which the master MySQL 5.1.50 server would run out of...
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On datatypes, domains and why I think it's time we reconsidered
What's in a datatype then? A MySQL SMALLINT? A C int? An Oracle BLOB? One thing is for sure, they are not very well standardized, not even within the same environment, and much less so across them. And...
View ArticleSpeaking at MySQL Meetup in Charlotte,NC
February is going to be a busy meetup month for me. In addition to speaking in Raleigh I will visit Charlotte to speak at Meetup out there on February 23rd. Last year I visited Charlotte meetup was in...
View ArticleBuilding XtraDB on Windows
As you may or may not know, Windows is not yet a supported platform for XtraDB. I thought I’d try to build it, and see what happens: Download XtraDB 5.5 Source cd C:\xtradb-5.5 mkdir bld cd bld cmake...
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New England’s Victory (for Big Data)
While it might not have been New England’s weekend on the Big Gridiron, it was certainly New England’s day for Big Data at the New England Database Summit on Friday at MIT. The summit was well...
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Upcoming talks at PHP UK, Confoo and your event
I will be speaking on new MySQL features at the PHP UK conference on February 25th in London. A few days later on march 3rd, I will be presenting the Care and Feeding of a MySQL Database at Confoo in...
View ArticleMySQL progress in a year
Usually people do this around New Year, I will do it in February. Actually, I was inspired to do this after reviewing all the talks for this year's MySQL Conference - what a snapshot into the state of...
View ArticleDot-Org Pavilion at the Percona Live MySQL Conference
Are you involved with an open-source project that’s interesting to MySQL users, such as Nginx, PHPMyAdmin, Drupal, Jenkins, PHP, and so on? Percona just published the application form for dot-org...
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SpyMemcached Transcoder with PHP PDO Objects using ZLIB
My technology stack services more then 2 Million Daily Active users. Its very basic. PHP talks to mySQL, Memcache, RabbitMQ, Gearman and Facebook. Now that we have more Java specifically to support...
View ArticleAnnouncing Percona Toolkit Release 2.0.3
We’ve released Percona Toolkit 2.0.3, with a couple of major improvements and many minor ones. You can download it, read the documentation, and get support for it. What’s new? You can read the...
View ArticleMeet The MySQL Experts Podcast: MySQL & PHP
The latest episode of our “Meet The MySQL Experts” podcast focuses on MySQL & PHP! Andrey Hristov and Johannes Schlüter from the MySQL Connectors Team talk about various ways PHP developers can use...
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LOAD DATA INFILE to resolve locks
In relation to this MPB post, there is a command to output data into a file and then to load it back into MySQL to resolve locks. (An example of a really big reporting query that could be quite heavy,...
View ArticleAnnouncing the SkySQL & MariaDB Solutions Day for the MySQL® Database:...
SkySQL and MariaDB are delighted to announce that we’ll be co-hosting our first Solutions Day for the MySQL® Database on 13 April, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara. During this one day event,...
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XtraBackup Manager - Job Control, Better Debugging and some little fixes...
Hi Everyone,Just a quick note to let you know that I've just finished up adding some new features to XtraBackup Manager.You can now get better visibility into what is going on inside XtraBackup Manager...
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The community helping customers restore faster with mysqldump
A big thanks to Xiaobin Lin for taking the time to submit and the related patch for bug #64248. It could be available in MySQL 5.5.20. I was mistaken. The patch is based on 5.5.20 This should help...
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