What a week in Santa Clara!
The SkySQL booth ready for the stampede of visitors that stopped by each day. We hope it was as productive and fun for all of you as it was for us at SkySQL! We started out the week at Percona Live,...
View ArticleA brief update on NUMA and MySQL
Some time ago, I wrote a rather popular post The MySQL “swap insanity” problem and the effects of the NUMA architecture (if you haven’t read it, stop now and do that!), which described using numactl...
View ArticlePercona Tease Kit
Percona you know I love you. You have the largest brains working with MySQL. Your toolkit (formerly Maatkit and Aspersa) is a real gift to the MySQL community. But stop teasing us with webinars about...
View ArticleMySQL 2012 Percona conference day 2 part 2
Boost Your Replication Throughput with Parallel Apply, Prefetch, and Batching ------------------------------------------------------ Slave lag is the bane master/slave replication. This talk will...
View ArticleMySQL 2012 Percona conference day 2 part 3
MySQL Cluster Performance Tuning ------------------------------------------- In this session we will look at different tuning aspects of MySQL Cluster. As well as going through performance tuning...
View ArticleSome lessons from MySQL Conference 2012
The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo 2012 is over. Together with the SkySQL solutions day, it has kept me occupied for 4 full days, from early morning to late at night. I have to say that I am...
View ArticleWhy a statement can be unsafe when it uses LIMIT clause?
MySQL 5.1 or newer can sometimes start throwing a strange message into an error log. The message states that a query was unsafe for binary logging along with some additional information. What does it...
View ArticleInstalling MySQL Enterprise Backup to Generic Linux
The MySQL Enterprise Backup is a very powerful backup tool from MySQL. By using MEB, you can always take a hot and fast backup of all your MySQL Databases. I've been using it in Oracle Linux platform...
View ArticleBenchmarking your MySQL servers
Benchmarking tools like Sysbench and DBT2 has helped alot of DBAs in measuring their MySQL databases performance. By benchmarking you will really know how far your current setup will go. In this part,...
View ArticleCreating a local repository for Yum to work
You cannot use Yum to an unregistered Linux by default after installation. As a workaround, you will have to create a repo from your installation CD or ISO file. 1. Mount your DVD/CDROM. Run this...
View ArticleSearch engine: blekko
I blogged about duckduckgo previously, and here's another search engine, I've just recently learned about: blekko.Met their CTO at Percona Live, running the CentOS (!) booth, to learn they have their...
View ArticleTesting Percona Replication Manager (prm) with Vagrant
If you have recently attended some Percona Live events or if you have checked some slides from Yves Trudeau, you may have heard about Percona Replication Manager (PRM), a new high availability tool for...
View ArticleRoland Bouman's blog: MySQL 5: Prepared statement syntax and Dynamic SQL
@Anonymous,this does not sound like a question that has anything todo with this article. Simple write a servlet as you are used to, and add code to execute SQL statements. You can send it whatever...
View ArticlePercona Live MySQL Conference & Expo Was A Great Event
Thanks to all of our sponsors, speakers, speaker selection committee, event staff, and especially the attendees for making last week’s conference a resounding success. With over a thousand people, the...
View ArticlePercona Live MySQL Conference 2012 – Day 0 Review
Day 0 of the MySQL Conference is a day unlike any other day. It is, in fact, tutorial day. While regular days of the Percona Live MySQL Conference feature 50 minute sessions, usually split into 40...
View ArticlePercona Live MySQL Conference 2012 – Day 1 Review
Day 1 is the fist official day of the Percona Live MySQL Conference; the day began with two mini-keynotes by Peter Zaitev and Baron Schwarz of Percona talking about the history of MySQL and how he got...
View ArticleMySQLboy @ MySQL Conf 2012 [part 1/2]
MySQLBoy attends the annual MySQL Conference and Expo host by Percona. [part 1 of 2]PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleYACR! (Yet another conference review!)
The journey to the Hotel in Santa Clara took me something like 16 hours. It was long, arduous and at times despairing, but was it worth it? Absolutely! I made the epic journey with my Pythian (and...
View ArticleSupport for XtraBackup 2.0 in XtraBackup Manager coming soon...
Hi Folks,Just a quick note to let you know that I am planning to add support to XtraBackup Manager to work with XtraBackup 2.0 series releases fairly soon.Using the XtraBackup 2.0 series will mean that...
View ArticleEasy MySQL replication with hotbackups
Read the original article at Easy MySQL replication with hotbackupsSetting up replication in MySQL is something we need to do quite often. Slaves die, replication fails, or tables and data get out of...
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