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PECL/mysqlnd_ms: MySQL 5.6.4-m8+ global transaction identifier feature supported
MySQL Replication is sometimes critizied for being asynchronous and having slaves that lag behind. True! However, sometimes slaves can be used safely and reliably for read-your-writes. Its easy for...
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Auto caching tables
Is there a way to create a caching table, some sort of a materialized view, such that upon selecting from that table, its data is validated/invalidated? Hint: yes. But to elaborate the point: say I...
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Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education presentation
I will be at SITE, The Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, on Wednesday March 7th presenting Teaching Database Concepts with Open Source Software. There has been a time change to...
View ArticleDiagnosing MySQL AUTO-INC and Gap Locks
At ideeli, there is an asynchronous process that allows internal users to import SKUs into our MySQL database. As ideeli has grown, more people are doing more of the same thing at the same time and the...
View ArticleMoving Data in Real-Time between Oracle and MySQL - Webinar 3/15
Thursday, 3/15/12 @ 10:00 am PT/ 1 pm ETTuesday, 3/20/12 @ 14:00 CET/ 13:00 GMTMoving data between legacy Oracle databases and cheap, flexible MySQL-based applications is an increasingly important...
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Schooner becomes an Ispirer Systems partner to enable seamless database...
Organizations have begun to realize the value of moving from expensive database vendors to Schooner, reaping enterprise functionality at a fraction of the cost.To better enable these migrations,...
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 12.1 (LAMP)
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On OpenSUSE 12.1 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an OpenSUSE 12.1...
View ArticleSkySQL Training schedule is Now Available
I’m happy to announce the new SkySQL Training schedule is now available. In fact, some classes began this week. Here is the upcoming Performance Tuning class schedule: Mar 05, 2012 – Mar 08, 2012 ::...
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The CAP theorem and MySQL Cluster
tldr; A single MySQL Cluster prioritises Consistency in Network partition events. Asynchronously replicating MySQL Clusters prioritise Availability in Network partition events.I was recently asked...
View ArticleDiagnosing MySQL AUTO-INC and Gap Locks (@Ideeli Tech Blog)
I recently blogged about diagnosing an auto increment and gap locking problem over at the Ideeli Tech Blog. Check it out!PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleFun with partitions and MyISAM, part #2
This is part of the reply i got on my bug report on the ALTER TABLE issue with MyISAM and a large number of partitions from my previous post: This is a design limitation, MyISAM have one file handle...
View ArticleLiving in the Prove It Culture
Engineering cultures differ from shop to shop. I have been in the same culture for 13 years so I am not an expert on what all the different types are. Before that I was living in Dilbert world. The...
View ArticleGetting the best performance out of MySQL Cluster – White Paper
There are a number of resources available to help get you up and running with MySQL Cluster so that you can start experimenting – including the quick start guides from the download page but what...
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Amazon RDS take two
I wrote in a previous blogpost, a few weeks ago, that we had started to migrate our MySQL databases to Amazon RDS. We have now been running this for quite a while, and so far we have not had any issues...
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On InnoDB compression in production
Our latest changes have been pushed to public mysql@facebook branch, allowing this post to happen \o/ Recently we started rolling out InnoDB compression to our main database tier, and that has been a...
View ArticleMaking MySQL comfortable for Oracle DBAs
I’m at Hotsos Symposium this week, and it suddenly occurred to me that a lot of Oracle DBAs who are beginning to manage MySQL servers might have some things to share with others in a similar role...
View ArticleBuild A Free, Full-Featured Mail Server On Gentoo Linux With iRedMail
Build A Free, Full-Featured Mail Server On Gentoo Linux With iRedMail We're going to set up a free, full-featured mail server on Gentoo Linux, all mail service related components are free and open...
View ArticleWhy no TPC benchmarks for MySQL?
Someone asked me yesterday why there are no TPC benchmarks for MySQL. By “benchmarks” I don’t mean “benchmark tools” but rather “official benchmark results.” For example, see the current TPC-C...
View ArticlePercona is hiring
Thinking about a new career? Percona is hiring for a variety of positions. Sales, server engineering, training, consulting, support, and occasionally other things too. It’s a great place to work. I’m...
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Modern platforms: flash, disk, log-structured, update-in-place
Someone who knows a lot about storage asked me whether we can spend IOPS to improve compression.When deploying a pure-flash server I want a database engine that optimizes for compression as more...
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