Three free MySQL webinars
I’m scheduled to deliver several free MySQL webinars via Percona and ODTUG in the upcoming weeks. I hope you can join me: February 16 – Verifying Replication Integrity with Percona Toolkit via ODTUG....
View ArticleDrizzle Day 2012
Henrik has already posted it over on the Drizzle Blog, but I thought I’d give a shout out here too. We’re holding a Drizzle Day right after the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo in April. So,...
View ArticleAdding dynamic fields to Signups on Drupal
In my day job at SkySQL I work with Drupal as our content management system. One thing we often need to do is provide a way for people to sign up for events and the like. One such event is the...
View ArticleQueryScript: SQL scripting language
Introducing QueryScript: a programming language aimed for SQL scripting, seamlessly combining scripting power such as flow control & variables with standard SQL statements or RDBMS-specific...
View Articlecommon_schema rev. 218: QueryScript, throttling, processes, documentation
common_schema, revision 218 is released, with major new features, top one being server side scripting. Here are the highlights: QueryScript: server side scripting is now supported by common_schema,...
View ArticleShinguz: I prefer MySQL binary tar balls with Galera...
In my set-ups I have different MySQL versions (MySQL 5.0, 5.1, 5.5 and 5.6, Percona Server 13.1 and 24.0, MariaDB 5.2.10, 5.3.3, Galera 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0) running in parallel at the same time. Up to now...
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North Texas MySQL Users Group Meeting set for March 12th
The March meeting of the North Texas MySQL Users Group will be March 12th from five to seven PM at the Irving office. Pizza will be provided and a special guest speaker is double checking their...
View ArticleDot-Org Pavilion at the Percona Live MySQL Conference
This is a cross-post from my personal blog. 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...
View ArticleYou're Invited - Oracle's MySQL Tech Tour Event – El Segundo
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Successful Dallas Tech Tour
Benjamin Wood talks at the Dallas MySQL Tech tour on the history of MySQL The first MySQL Tech Tour in Dallas is over. A capacity crowd filled the room. Only a few had never had ‘hands on’ with the...
View ArticleMySQL High Availability Realized - Webcast 2/16
High availability is about more than making sure that apps can get to your data even if there is a failure. How about when you are upgrading your database schema? What if you need to add memory to a...
View ArticleDrizzle Day and MariaDB day to end your MySQL user conference
Good news to all of you who are going or were thinking of going to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo. Yesterday two great addon events were announced, both happening on Friday April 13th,...
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I have proof of UFOs
Un-maned Failover Operations I have video of two MySQL servers (one master, on slave) failing over from Master to Slave. The Master becomes the Slave and vise-verse with the slave becoming read-only....
View ArticleAnnouncing Percona Server 5.5.20-24.1
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.20-24.1 on February 9th, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.20, including...
View ArticleI’m speaking at the MySQL conference in April
It might surprise you to hear this, but I had no idea whether my talks would be accepted. The committee decided on that, and neither I nor anyone else at Percona is on the committee. In any case, I’ll...
View ArticleMySQL/QueryScript use case: DELETE all but top N records per group
Some administrative tasks can be simplified by using common_schema/QueryScript. I'm collecting a bunch of these for documentation. Here's one for example: The DBA/developer has the task of retaining...
View ArticleSome pt-table-checksum FAQs
After the recent update to pt-table-checksum, I’ve seen a few FAQs about it. Q: is it still multi-threaded/parallel? A: No, that was a pile of bugs and complexity. If you need to run the tool in...
View ArticleYou're Invited - Oracle's MySQL Tech Tour Event – Santa Clara
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