Converting myisam tables to innodb
Why should you convert myisam tables to innodb ? For the perfectly simple reason that innodb tables do not get locked by concurrent selects & inserts. So if you find that your myisam table is...
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Import text file dialog with new features
Issue #2134 reported that there are users which do not have the privilege to fire a LOAD DATA command, which rendered HeidiSQL's "import textfile" feature useless for them. So, I recently implemented a...
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MySQL Cluster users - Check out MyQuery 3.3.2
In MyQuery 3.3, where I just released version 3.3.2 which includes some MySQL Cluster NB specific fixes, there is some support for accessing MySQL Cluster / NDB beyond what is available as ndbinfo...
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MySQL relay-log-space-limit vs. your page cache
Leif (who works for Spinn3r) published a great post on the mySQL relay-log-space-limit variable and using the page cache efficiently: When the SQL thread is not able to keep up, logs will accumulate....
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Cache Miss Storm
I worked on the problem recently which showed itself as rather low MySQL load (probably 5% CPU usage and close to zero IO) would spike to have hundreds instances of threads running at the same time,...
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MySQL versus MongoDB - yet another silly benchmark
This is yet another silly benchmark because the results are likely to be misused. The results probably do not matter to you. I like MongoDB. It has many things in common with MySQL (ease of use, rapid...
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All-GUI MySQL on Mac
aka “How to use multiple MySQL Servers and Workbench in Snow Leopard without using Terminal… and live happily ever after” The MySQL Community is a world of command-line aficionados. Many people,...
View ArticleLog Buffer #202, A Carnival of The Vanities for DBAs
Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly roundup of database industry news. We’re only a week or so away from Oracle OpenWorld. Everyone is buzzing with activity, promoting their speaking sessions and making...
View ArticleMySQL Proxy 0.7
MySQL Proxy 0.7 (0.7.1 , published on Monday, 13 Sep 2010)PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
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MySQL Proxy 0.6 (0.6.1 , published on Monday, 13 Sep 2010)PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
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MySQL Proxy 0.8 (0.8.1 alpha, published on Monday, 13 Sep 2010)PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleConnector/C++ 1.1
Connector/C++ 1.1 (1.1.0 GA, published on Monday, 13 Sep 2010)PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
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GlassFish and JavaOne 2010
JavaOne this year is held at a different location (Maps.Bing, Maps.Google) and in different dates (Sept 19-24), but it is still full of activities. To help you track them, here are a few links. Let's...
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Tool of the day: autossh
Maybe I’m like an old replication server, lagging way behind, but a couple of weeks ago I found autossh, which is a wrapper around ssh, that keeps reconnecting the session if it breaks. With public key...
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High Availability & Clustering at MySQL Sunday
With the MySQL Sunday event at Oracle Open World rapidly approaching, and registrations to the event 10x higher than originally forecast, I thought it would be a good time to highlight sessions that...
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Founding SkySQL
To be part of the MySQL journey was a great privilege in my life. Working for almost six years with great developers, energetic sales-guys, devoted support engineers and a management team capable of...
View ArticlePostgres kernel regressions
While Mark was looking at MongoDB, I was playing comparing various aspects of MySQL and Postgres performance. Certain PG performance numbers I saw (40kqps vs 110kqps from MySQL) made me really upset,...
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Do We Need a New Programming Language for Big Data?
I'm the boards of two companies (Pentaho, Revolution Analytics) that are starting to see a lot of customer traction around Big Data. More and more companies in media, pharma, retail and finance are...
View ArticledbForge Studio for MySQL has been nominated in Best IDE Product of 2010...
Devart made it to the final of 2010 DevProConnections Community Choice Awards. The awards recognize the best products and services in the industry by a community vote. Devart has been nominated in 4...
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MySQL Cluster documentation on iPhone/iPad
MySQL Cluster in iBooks MySQL documentation has now been made available in ePub format (fetch the MySQL Cluster versions from http://dev.mysql.com/doc/index-cluster.html ). This format is intended for...
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