How to install and configure a Linux server for MySQL?
Have you ever spent a lot of time thinking about how to install and configure a Linux server for MySQL database? I will try to highlight all the critical steps and some of the decisions you may need to...
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Why Dave Schleis is Looking Forward to Kscope12
Guest Blogger: David Schleis For the last dozen years, springtime has always meant one thing: cleaning up all the surprises exposed by the melting snow (you northern-tier dog-owners know what I’m...
View ArticleTungsten at MySQL Users Conference, Thursday
Thursday, April 12Testing MySQL Creatively in a sandbox by Giuseppe Maxia, 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm in Ballroom CBoost Your Replication Throughput with Parallel Apply, Prefetch, and Batching by Stephane...
View ArticleMySQL Conference 2012 – keynotes on day 2 (1)
An exciting and busy day yesterday – lots of good talks, good conversations and good beer! Back at the sessions this morning and the first keynote of the day by Sam Ghods of Box: “MySQL: Still the Best...
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Mark Callaghan of Facebook: “What Comes Next for MySQL” focus on Large, sharded deployments Interesting numbers from their deployment (MySQL with Innodb): 60M QPS and 1.5B rows read/second in...
View ArticleMySQL Conference 2012 – keynotes on day 2 (3)
A panel on “Future Perfect: The Road Ahead for MySQL” Brian Aker (HP), Paul Mikesell (Clustrix), Sundar Raghavan (Amazon), Slavik Markovich (McAffee), Ori Hernstadt (Akiban) If there’s one common theme...
View ArticleTesting Percona XtraDB Cluster with Vagrant
For those wanting to become more familiar with Percona XtraDB Cluster or if you just one to test its capabilities, I have prepared an easy Vagrant setup ready to deploy. It contains the puppet recipes...
View ArticleSkySQL MariaDB & MySQL database support just got better, thanks to...
We hope you all are having a productive and fun time at Percona Live! We at SkySQL sure are. In fact, we have another announcement to make here at the show. We’re happy to share that our already...
View ArticleSecurity Around MySQL @ Percona Live MySQL Conference 2012
In about 4 hours, at 2PM PDT, I’ll be giving my talk “Security Around MySQL” at Ballroom A at the Percona Live MySQL Conference 2012. It’s a summary and guide of practical and easy-to-implement...
View ArticlePercona Live MySQL Conference Presentation
Here are the slides from my presentation “From Requirements to Partitioning and Sharding and Everything in Between”. A big thanks to all the attendees for their interest and questions. I got a lot of...
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MySQL Performance: Improved Adaptive Flushing in 5.6-labs
I'd start this blog post with "I've had a dream".. ;-))Seriously, it was my dream from a long time that "official" MySQL code comes with a more improved Adaptive Flushing solution in InnoDB.. - and...
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TokuDB v6.0: Frequent Checkpoints with No Performance Hit
Checkpointing — which involves periodically writing out dirty pages from memory — is central to the design of crash recovery for both TokuDB and InnoDB. A key issue in designing a checkpointing system...
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MySQL Community Awards: Corporate Contributor of the Year 2012 for Oracle’s...
The MySQL Community Team won a MySQL Community Awards: Corporate Contributor award. On behalf my fellow MySQL Community Manager Keith Larson and myself, we would like to thank those who apprecaited our...
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MySQL Sessions at Collaborate
Collaborate is April 22-26 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. Below is a list of the MySQL sessions. And besure to stop by the Demo area to see some new MySQL goodies! Date Session ID...
View ArticleNew flushing algorithm in InnoDB
In MySQL labs release April 2012 we have reworked the flushing heuristics in InnoDB. In this post I’ll give an overview of what we have changed and the various configuration variables we have...
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Data-oriented programming for the rest of us
I have been a fan of LINQ for several years (my Saffron project covered many of the same themes) but I've had difficulty explaining why it isn't just a better Hibernate. In his article “Why LINQ...
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MySQL Performance: 5.5 and 5.6-labs @TPCC-like
It's now over a year when there was a quite interesting exchange with Vadim and other Percona guys due their TPCC-like benchmark results on MySQL 5.5 - I've replayed on that time the same tests, but...
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New MySQL optimizer team page launched
FYI: A MySQL Optimizer Team blog aggregate page has been launched. It will be continuously updated with the latest blogs published by the MySQL optimizer developers. Now you can easily stay updated...
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Oracle MySQL Innovation Day – Redwood Shores, on Tuesday, June 05, 2012.
Be sure to register for Oracle MySQL Innovation Day before space is filled. The list of presenters is still being finanlized but please beleve me that the lsit includes some very detailed presentations...
View ArticleTungsten today at SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database
Join us, SkySQL and MariaDB for a day of free tutorials and consulting around the MySQL database and related technologies. Robert Hodges & Giuseppe Maxia will be talking about "Complex multi-master...
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