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Heading to Oracle Open World
Today is all airports and flights. The flight between London and San Francisco is not too bad, but I don’t like long haul flights and for 12 hours I can sympathise with sardines and anchovies… Tomorrow...
View ArticleMore patches for MySQL 5.1 from Facebook
I pushed more changes to the Facebook patch for MySQL 5.1 -- revisions 3551 to 3564. Most of the patches are bug fixes for previous patches including code and test changes. This includes fixes for:*...
View ArticleSheeri has joined PalominoDB
About six weeks ago I posted about leaving Pythian. I had a month off in which I spent quality time with my husband, including packing up our apartment to move two blocks away. I also spent some time...
View ArticleOne More Day to MySQL Sunday!
The MySQL team at Oracle has been very busy! Tomorrow, Sept. 19th, we welcome the MySQL users and community to Oracle OpenWorld - this will be a first. We all are very excited and have been working...
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Split log_sys mutex in MySQL 5.5
One important bottleneck in the MySQL Server is the log_sys mutex in InnoDB. Experiments using mutex statistics showed that this mutex was accessed about 250k times per second and that about 75% of...
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Multiple Buffer Pools in MySQL 5.5
In our work to improve MySQL scalability we tested many opportunities to scale the MySQL Server and the InnoDB storage engine. The InnoDB buffer pool was often one of the hottest contention points in...
View ArticleOracle week 2010 in Israel: not a single MySQL session
Development, Middleware, [Oracle] Database, BI, ERP, CRM, SCM, EPM, SOA & BPM, Java, Security — all these and more are on the schedule. No MySQL track, not a single MySQL session. Lack of speakers?...
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JavaOne Minus One - The Guides to the Conferences
JavaOne starts on Monday, but several key events are tomorrow, Sunday, including the keynote for OOW and the GlassFish Community Event and Party :-). This will be a very busy week; below is a list of...
View ArticleHelping to Organize a MySQL Bootcamp @ IOUG’s COLLABORATE 11
I am helping IOUG Organize a MySQL bootcamp at their Collaborate conference in Orlando. This is actually a great opportunity to reach out to a lot of Oracle talent looking for more information and...
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MySQL Sunday at Oracle Open World 2010
MySQL Sunday is an open series and looks like a great start to the Oracle Open World conference. Everyone is waiting to see if there are any announcements for MySQL at the conference from Oracle. I...
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Announcing the release of GreenSQL Pro and GreenSQL Light
We are proud to announce the release of GreenSQL Pro and GreenSQL Light, our first commercial Unified Database Security solutions, designed to provide all organizations – from small and medium...
View ArticleMySQL 5.5 is now in RC, and will be GA soon!
Earlier this year, the beta of MySQL 5.5 was announced. We all felt excited about the changes in 5.5, especially the large performance improvements. However, many of us proceeded with caution;...
View ArticleInnoDB Revision History
This is a brief overview of the history of InnoDB with respect to the Version Control Systems (VCS) that were used for developing. It could be useful to people who want to trace back in time to find...
View ArticleLearning About InnoDB – Finding Docs
With all the changes surrounding Sun and MySQL joining Oracle, and InnoDB becoming part of the MySQL organization, let’s recap how and where to find information related to InnoDB, so first-time users...
View ArticleMySQL 5.5: InnoDB Change Buffering
To speed up bulk loading of data, InnoDB implements an insert buffer, a special index in the InnoDB system tablespace that buffers modifications to secondary indexes when the leaf pages are not in the...
View ArticleMySQL 5.5: InnoDB adaptive_flushing – How it works?
Write-heavy workloads can reach a situation where InnoDB runs out of usable space in its redo log files. When that happens, InnoDB does a lot of disk writes to create space and you can see a drop in...
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MySQL 5.5: InnoDB Performance Improvements on Windows
At MySQL, we know our users want Performance, Scalability, Reliability, and Availability, regardless of the platform the choose to deploy. We have always had excellent benchmarks on Linux, and with...
View ArticleMySQL 5.5: InnoDB as Default Storage Engine
MySQL has a well-earned reputation for being easy-to-use and delivering performance and scalability. In previous versions, MyISAM was the default storage engine. In our experience, most users never...
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MySQL Performance: 5.5 Notes..
Since 5.5 is announced as Release Candidate now, I'll not compare it with 5.1 anymore - I think there was written enough about the performance gain even since introduction of 5.4 :-) From the other...
View ArticleMySQL Workbench 5.2.28 GA Available
We’re proud to announce the next release of MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.28. This maintenance release features improvements to the Workbench scripting Shell as well as various fixes. Enhancements to...
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