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Introducing Anemometer - MySQL Slow Query VisualizationThe DBA team at Box.com has just open sourced our in-house tool for tracking sql queries. It's really been a huge help to us in terms of growing...
View ArticleShenandoah Ruby Users Group Monthly Meetup
I’ll be speaking at the Shenandoah Ruby Users Group Monthly Meetup tomorrow in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The topic is “Seven Things To Know About MySQL Performance.” See you there! Further...
View ArticleComplex multi-master solutions made easy with Tungsten - at SkySQL &...
Complex multi-master solutions made easy with Tungsten by Robert Hodges & Giuseppe MaxiaFriday, April 13 at 1:00 pmTungsten has broken new ground how to make previously complex or completely...
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Relocating to US and joining Facebook
I recently joined Facebook. I relocated to Redwood City (less than 10km from Facebook Menlo Park office) and I commute by bicycle (or caltrain + shuttle on rainy days). I'm currently taking a bootcamp...
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NoSQL and MySQL – free webinar
Schema-free NoSQL Data On Thursday, I’ll be presenting a webinar on NoSQL (of course with a MySQL twist!) – as always it’s free to attend but you need to register here in advance. Even if you can’t...
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Slides: MySQL 5.6 Global Transaction Identifier and PECL/mysqlnd_ms for...
Why do we have to bother about built-in GTID support in MySQL 5.6 at all? Sure, it is a tremendous step forward for a lazy primary copy system like MySQL Replication. Period. GTIDs make server-side...
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MariaDB-5.3 optimizer benchmark
When I published the MariaDB-5.3.4 sysbench results I said “if your workload includes complex (sub)queries, then you will probably benefit more from MariaDBs new optimizer features”. Today I will...
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SchoonerSQL at Percona Live Conference 2012 – Booth #201
Come see Schooner at Percona Live Conference (Booth #201) and learn about SchoonerSQL’s approach to both sync and async replication with parallel appliers. Tired of stale or lagging data in MySQL?...
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New Oracle ACE for MySQL !
A big congrats to Ligaya Turmelle for being Oracle's most recent Oracle ACE for MySQL!You can often find her on freenode. You can also keep up with her via her blog blog.khankennels.com Ligaya will be...
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Tringalwadi Dam Bike Ride
After a long wait post Lavasa Bike Ride, another was due. I remembered my old trek of Tringalwadi where we had a soulfoul swim in the Tringalwadi dam. The date was set, 25 Feb 2012. We had a cold water...
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InnoDB’s gap locks
One of the most important features of InnoDB is the row level locking. This feature provides better concurrency under heavy write load but needs additional precautions to avoid phantom reads and to get...
View ArticleMySQL 5.6.4-m7 is made of pure win
I have an internal project that is generating a materialized view of some pretty important data, using 96 application server cores against a 12 core database with 192g of memory and a buttload of SSD,...
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High Availability Solutions for MySQL
Join us for our High Availability Solutions for MySQL seminar in Helsinki on Thursday May 10th 2012 to better understand how to achieve High Availability with MySQL.During this free Oracle seminar we...
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How MySQL Innodb works and how realestate.com.au configures their databases
I gave a lightning talk on MySQL Innodb and how realestate.com.au configures their databases to the DevOPS Melbourne meetup last night.My slides can be found here.Simply some take aways areUse Innodb...
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Agile software delivery and schema changes - how do you do it
I work for realestate.com.au and we're an agile delivery shop. We're trying to catch up to some of the best of the best web-shops like Etsy and so on through continuous delivery. Millions of deploys a...
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At POSSCON and Looking for MySQL swag?
At #POSSCON and looking for MySQL SWAG? Find me in Lexington A at 10AM where I am presenting MySQL 5.6 and 20 MySQL Tips in 20 Minutes. Come and get 'em -- MySQL thumb drives, stickers, and now...
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Looking for Global Collisions
On Monday, I took a break from planning for the upcoming Percona Live MySQL Conference (where we have a session, lightning talk, booth, and other misc activities planned) to go attend the...
View ArticleHigh Performance MySQL 3rd Edition is real!
O’Reilly authors get 10 copies of their own books for free, and my copies of the third edition of High Performance MySQL arrived yesterday. Now it’s official! It feels nice to actually hold it in my...
View ArticleAnnouncing MySQL Enterprise Backup 3.7.1
The MySQL Enterprise Backup (MEB) Team is pleased to announce the release of MEB 3.7.1, a maintenance release version that includes bug fixes and enhancements to some of the existing features. The...
View ArticleShinguz: Troubles with MySQL 5.5 on FreeBSD 9
FreeBSD 9 seems to have some troubles with MySQL 5.5.20. A customer has moved from MySQL 5.0 on Linux to MySQL 5.5 on FreeBSD 9. He experienced a lot of periodic slow downs on the new, much stronger,...
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