OurSQL Episode 80: Lesser Known Percona Tools
News/Feedback: This week we have some fun audio feedback from Patrick Hurley, a MySQL DBA in the UK. The Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo is from Tuesday, April 10th through Thursday, April...
View ArticleDB Friday, February 24th edition
The overriding theme this week – we are still doing a lot of shifting around of databases pending our data center move. This week, the database team at Mozilla has: - Discovered some minor but...
View ArticleSkySQL is Hiring!
Just a note to let you all know that SkySQL is hiring! We’re currently looking for candidates for the following positions: Senior Software Engineer SkySQL Support Engineer (EMEA) Senior Sales Engineers...
View ArticleConnector/J extension points – Load Balancing Strategies
A fourth and final Connector/J extension point I covered in my JavaOne and Silicon Valley Code Camp presentations is load-balancing strategies. This exists in order to allow you to define behavior for...
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Asyncronous Shard Queries in PHP using mysqlnd enabling the feed load 10...
A few years ago I wrote about Asynchronous Shard Queries verses Synchronous Shard Queries, and in this post I talked about having to write a server to handle this for me in Java. Now I do it in PHP and...
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A better SHOW TABLE STATUS
From command line we have the entire MySQL server on hands (if we have privileges too of course) but we don’t have a overall overview, at this point the show table status command is every useful, or...
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Book review: "The computer boys take over"
I guess that most folk who read this blog are IT people in one way or the other. I do not expect my mother to read it, or even my wife. This is, after all, mostly about rather geeky technical computer...
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Introducing new type of benchmark
Traditionally the most benchmarks are focusing on throughput. We all get used to that, and in fact in our benchmarks, sysbench and tpcc-mysql, the final result is also represents the throughput...
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Let your voice be heard – Help define the MariaDB 5.6 Roadmap
We’ve had quite a bit of feedback already, so many thanks to all of you who have shared your thoughts with us! However, if you’ve not voted yet, please take a moment and let us know what you’d most...
View Articleinnotop version 1.8.1 released
The new stable version of innotop is now released. Version 1.8.1 is a bug-fix-only release, with no new features. It’s available for immediate download. Further Reading:Version 1.5.2 of the innotop...
View ArticleMySQL Hall of Fame
The public nominations for MySQL Community awards 2012 are still open until Wednesday. I submitted my nominations yesterday. I find it is useful to look at previous years winners for inspiration and...
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Solving Replication Lag with Tungsten Slave Prefetch
Slave prefetch is an increasingly popular technique for speeding up native MySQL replication, with several tools already published to enable it, such as mk-slave-prefetch and Replication Booster....
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Comparing the optimizer features of MariaDB 5.3 and MySQL 5.6
In his comment for Vadim Tkachenko's post Baron Schwartz writes:"...I speculate that when MySQL 5.6 is GA, the official MySQL fromOracle will have a clear advantage over GA versions of MariaDB...
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Speaking at the 2012 Percona Live MySQL Conference
This year, I have the pleasure of returning to the MySQL Conference & Expo as a speaker. Percona have picked up the torch that O’Reilly had held as the conference organizers, and they’re putting...
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Speaking at the 2012 Percona Live MySQL Conference
This year, I have the pleasure of returning to the MySQL Conference & Expo as a speaker. Percona have picked up the torch that O'Reilly had held as the conference organizers, and they're putting...
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Evidenzia Upgrades to TokuDB v5.2 to Address Storage Growth and Scale...
Ensuring sufficient disk I/O to catch copyright violations at network speed. Evidenzia GmbH & Co. KG Issues addressed: Storage growth, including maxed-out disk I/O utilization Performance issues...
View ArticleMariaDB 5.5.20-alpha
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.20-alpha. MariaDB 5.5.20 is the first Alpha release in the 5.5 series. We hope to follow it up soon with a beta 5.5 release. MariaDB...
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Confoo and SITE confernces
I will be speaking at Confoo this Friday on The Care and Feeding of a MySQL Database and Explain. And the week after, I will be in Austin for the Society for Information Technology and Teacher...
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MySQL Community on Freenode
I recently posted about how we, MySQL Community Managers, are trying to reach out more to the MySQL User groups and the MySQL Community. The room has been quiet to far but it is a new room. You can...
View ArticleAnnouncement: Release 1.1.2 of MySQL Plug-in for Oracle Enterprise Manager...
This release is just a quick bug fix release of an older 1.1.1 version of the plug-in. It’s long overdue but I’ve managed to fix “” problem only couple weeks ago. I’ve distributed the new version to...
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