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One SchoonerSQL node provides more throughput than nine Clustrix nodes – Part 2
The Schooner performance team completed a report that documents a TPCC-mysql benchmark run at the scale of 5000 warehouses (about 500GB) to observe stability at high levels of throughput. The impetus...
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SkySQL and Percona are giving away free tickets to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, and you can win them! We’re also giving away copies of High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition! This year's...
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Relearn about your battery
Some days ago I got a call from our support engineer on duty that MySQL on one of our database servers was lagging more than 1000 seconds behind in replication and the server got kicked out of the pool...
View Articleext4 vs xfs on SSD
As ext4 is a standard de facto filesystem for many modern Linux system, I am getting a lot of question if this is good for SSD, or something else (i.e. xfs) should be used. Traditionally our...
View ArticleLog Buffer #263, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
In this Log Buffer Edition, March madness with method continues with plethora of blog posts from across different database technologies. Enjoy this Log Buffer #263. Oracle: Pythian has got another...
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Hi, Webyog and Percona are giving away free tickets to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo, and you can win them! We’re also giving away copies of High Performance MySQL, 3rd Edition! This...
View ArticleWhy software patents are evil
Mark Cuban is no fool. A tech billionaire, the no-nonsense owner of the Dallas Mavericks is just the sort of person you'd expect to value software patents. So the title of his blog post this Tuesday,...
View ArticleFree ticket to MySQL User Conference on SF Meetup with talk “Percona XtraDB...
Just a reminder that I will be giving a talk “Percona XtraDB Cluster” on coming San Francisco MySQL Meetup, next Wednesday, March-21, 2012. Along with talk I will give away one full ticket (tutorials +...
View ArticleTIMESTAMP data types and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP attribute
In the yet to be released MySQL 5.6.6 DMR, there has been a change to the restriction of just one TIMESTAMP column with the DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP and ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP syntax. It is now...
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DrupalCon Denver Conference 2012
I will be attending the DrupalCON Denver Conference next week.Come visit Oracle Booth #400 and find out the latest information about MySQL and Linux! I will be at the booth so please stop by and say...
View ArticleOurSQL Episode 83: The NewSQL World
MariaDB announced their 5.3 GA and 5.5 alpha releases. Oracle will be at DrupalCon in Denver, CO from Monday, March 19th through Friday, March 23rd. Percona's XtraDB cluster announcement XtraDB Cluster...
View ArticleMozilla DB news, Friday March 16th
While adding a custom field to Bugzilla to track the newest SeaMonkey version, the script ran into a lock wait timeout and aborted. Some of the data needed to be manually inserted to finish adding the...
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mysql.com goes HTML5 video
In my role as Web Developer for mysql.com I have always tried to advocate open web standards, and to adopt good new web technologies as early as possible. And I believe that an open source product like...
View ArticleMySQL Cluster Quick Start Script
Many Windows users first looking to experiment with MySQL Cluster may find the process of getting everything up and running daunting. Fortunately, there’s MySQL Cluster Manager (MCM) which can help...
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Converting MS Access to MySQL with relationships
I have used tools like MySQL Migration Toolkit (*) and Bullzip’s Access To MySQL utility, both do a excellent job but without relationships. We can spend a lot of hours to identifying and creating...
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MySQL 5.6 too verbose when creating data directory
When I install a MySQL package using MySQL Sandbox, if everything goes smoothly, I get an informative message on standard output, and I keep working.This is OK...
View ArticleIPv6 in Drizzle, soon in MySQL?
Earlier today I posted a Drizzle white paper we've been working on: Drizzle and IPv6. read morePlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleComments on the Codership Galera vs NDB cloud shootout
Alex Yurchenko finally posted results on a benchmark he has planned to do for a long time: Galera vs NDB cloud shootout. Their blog requires registration to comment, so I'll post my comment here...
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Index Condition Pushdown to the rescue!
A while ago, I explained how range access in a multiple-part index works and why MySQL can't utilize key parts beyond the first occurrence of some often used comparison operators. Luckily, there is a...
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Tokutek and Percona are giving away free tickets to the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo (worth $995 each), and you can win them! We’re also giving away copies of High Performance MySQL, 3rd...
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