Log Buffer #259, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
With the weather taking extremes turns, technology is providing the much-needed warmth through the blogs. This Log Buffer Edition is sizzling with few of the hand-picked blog posts in Log Buffer #259....
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New Monitis MySQL Monitoring Tool’s Video
MySQL is the world’s most popular open-source database and platform for millions of web applications – it’s critical but cumbersome to monitor. Monitis’ MySQL monitoring provides three key benefits:...
View ArticleWhy SQL_mode will be required for long time.
This is my considerations/thoughts after reading: http://karlssonondatabases.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-i-think-sqlmode-is-useless.html...
View ArticleOurSQL Episode 79: Removing Evil Queries, part 3
There are a lot of events scheduled for the next few months, we are excited about the international scope and the mix of big and small, paid and free events. This week we finish explaining the output...
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Do I really want to get rid of SQL_MODE?
I recently wrote about SQL_MODE, and Ronald Bradford was quick to reply with his view on things. Although my post was a bit of a rant, and I think it was a necessary rant, it seems that Ronald and I...
View ArticleThis week in Mozilla Databases
I have been at Mozilla nearly three months, and I used to blog a lot more than I currently do. A lot of the content I used to blog about I end up blogging and talking about in OurSQL: The MySQL...
View ArticleThis week in Mozilla Databases: Friday February 17, 2012
I have been at Mozilla nearly three months, and I used to blog a lot more than I currently do. A lot of the content I used to blog about I end up blogging and talking about in OurSQL: The MySQL...
View ArticleAnnouncing MySQL Monitoring Plugins from Percona
We’ve released a new set of monitoring plugins for MySQL servers and related software. With these plugins, you can set up world-class graphing and monitoring for your MySQL servers, using your own...
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MySQL User Group Day on FreeNode !
As MySQL Community Managers, Dave an myself are always looking for ways to gather feedback on MySQL. We want to make ourselves available to you. The current plan is the last Monday of every month...
View ArticleThe relationship between Innodb Log checkpointing and dirty Buffer pool pages
This is a time-honored topic, and there’s no shortage of articles on the topic on this blog. I wanted to write a post trying to condense and clarify those posts, as it has taken me a while to really...
View ArticleA year with Drizzle
Today I'm coming out of the closet. Since I'm a professional database expert I try to be like the mainstream and use the commercial MySQL forks (including MySQL itself). But I think those close to me...
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Schooner On-Demand Webinars now Available
Database Best Practices for 2012: A Roadmap to Lower TCOIntended for IT Directors, C-level executives and their direct reports. If your organization suffers from unavailable, inaccurate or...
View ArticleNoSQL performance numbers - MySQL and Redis
Links to performance numbers posted wrt various NoSQL solutions: A top 20 global website announced they have migrated from MySQL to Redis. There will be a keynote and everything. It doesn't say how big...
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The benefit of keeping the InnoDB transaction log in cache
I was getting inconsistent performance results while running sysbench to generate a workload of point-updates and point-lookups. The rate of rows updated per second would vary between 200 and 600 and...
View ArticleCan we improve MySQL variable handling ?
MySQL Settings (also known as Server Variables) have interesting property. When you set variable in running server this change is not persisted in any way and server will be back to old value upon...
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MariaDB 5.3.4 benchmarks
MariaDB 5.3 has reached the release candidate milestone, and the 5.3 version promises a lot of new features and optimization (i.e in optimizer...
View ArticleFromDual.en: Codership partners with FromDual to offer consulting and support...
Helsinki, Finland, Uster, Switzerland – February 18, 2012 – Codership, the provider of Galera Cluster for MySQL, and FromDual, a MySQL consulting company, today announced collaboration to offer Galera...
View ArticleWhy don’t our new Nagios plugins use caching?
In response to the release of our new MySQL monitoring plugins on Friday, one commenter asked why the new Nagios plugins don’t use caching. It’s worth answering in a post rather than a comment, because...
View ArticleNew blog design
I am a minimalist at heart, and I love command line interfaces and text files. However, I’m also pragmatic, and so for a long time my blog has been powered by Wordpress, which made it relatively easy...
View ArticleA super-set of MySQL for Big Data. Interview with John Busch, Schooner.
“Legacy MySQL does not scale well on a single node, which forces granular sharding and explicit application code changes to make them sharding-aware and results in low utilization of severs”– Dr. John...
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