Binary log file size matters (sometimes)
I used to think one should never look at max_binlog_size, however last year I had a couple of interesting cases which showed that sometimes it may be very important variable to tune properly. I meant...
View ArticleWebinar – Migrating to Percona XtraDB Cluster
Whenever I learn about a new technology, I typically want to know the major administrative touch points more than I want to know exhaustive detail about every configuration option. Give me the gist,...
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On simplicity, awk and potatoes
Yes, things certainly changes all the time for us IT folks. New classes of hardware, new cool pieces of software and cool gadgets. Stuff that usually gets better and better, and if not, at least they...
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Best of Guide – Highlights of Our Popular Content
Read the original article at Best of Guide – Highlights of Our Popular ContentWe cherry pick the top 5 most popular posts of various topics we’ve covered in recent months.5 Things Toxic to...
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Challenges of Big Databases with MySQL – IOUG Presentation
Many database management tasks become difficult as you move from millions of rows and gigabytes of data to billions of rows and terabytes of data. Such tasks include ingesting data while...
View ArticleOurSQL Episode 92: It's Not Our Type, Part 2
This week we talk about numeric data types in MySQL. News/Events/Feedback OurSQL Listener Jesper Hansen was nice enough to take a screen shot of episode 0 of the ourSQL podcast hitting 12,345...
View ArticleWebinar 5/31: Building a multi-master, multi-region MySQL solution in the Cloud
Growth is good, right? Yes, unless you are the one building and managing a MySQL database tier to handle all this growth! Your company has built a great new app and launched it in the cloud. And now...
View ArticleMozilla DB News, Thursday May 24th
The DB news this week is being posted a day early, because in about 2 hours I will be leaving to fly to Finland, where I will be speaking at the Harmony conference next week. This week has been one of...
View ArticleAnnouncing Percona Server 5.1.63-13.4
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.63-13.4 on May 24th, 2012 (Downloads are available from Percona Server 5.1.63-13.4 downloads and from the Percona Software Repositories)....
View ArticleMariaDB 5.5 has deprecated PBXT
One of the things we (Team MariaDB) talked quite a bit about since we released was PBXT. It was a feature differentiation to MySQL as we shipped another storage engine. It was included in MariaDB 5.1,...
View ArticleThere is a story….
I have a friend who is fond of telling a story from way back in November 2008 at the OpenSQL camp in Charlottesville, Virgina. This was relatively shortly after we had announced to the public that we’d...
View ArticleLog Buffer #273, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Glamour from across the world is sparkling in the South of France, but even that has failed to eclipsed the vivid aura of the database blogs from the realms of Oracle, MySQL and SQL Server. This Log...
View ArticleHopper for MySQL, beta 1 released
Hopper for MySQL, beta 1 released Upscene Productions is proud to announce the first public beta of our new product: "Hopper", a Stored Code Debugger for MySQL. "After consulting with MySQL users and...
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MySQL Cluster 7.1.22 is available for download
The binary version for MySQL Cluster 7.1,21 has now been made available at https://www.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/7.1.html#downloads (GPL version) or https://support.oracle.com/ (commercial version)....
View ArticleHow to Build MariaDB 5.5 on Windows from Source Code
I built MariaDB 5.5.24 on Windows yesterday from source, so I just wanted to share my steps. Here is the short version: bzr branch lp:maria/5.5 maria-5.5 cd maria-5.5 mkdir bld cd bld cmake .. -G...
View ArticleHow to Enable the Original InnoDB Plugin in MariaDB 5.5
As I mentioned here, there is a slight change for enabling the [original] InnoDB Plugin in MariaDB 5.5 (as compared to how you would enable it in 5.1). Remember, in MariaDB 5.5, if you do not “enable”...
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Artikel in JavaSPEKTRUM 03/12
In Ausgabe 3/2012 der Fachzeitschrift JavaSPEKTRUM wurde kürzlich ein Artikel mit dem Titel "SOA-basierte NoSQL-Lösung im Mobile-Umfeld" veröffentlicht, dessen Co-Author ich bin. Er beschreibt, wie...
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Secure passwords being insecure
If you follow the general advices to create secure password the following ones seem to be secure, right? s11P$||!sh&2 pr0&!!ke0 3kj39|!381 The answer to the question is, “it depends on how you...
View ArticleZFS: could have been the future of UNIX Filesystems
There was a point a few years ago where Sun could have had the next generation UNIX filesystem. It was in Solaris (and people were excited), there was a port to MacOS X (that was quite exciting for...
View ArticleWhat comes in between MariaDB now and MySQL 5.6?
We’re quite happy that we’ve released four major releases that are production ready (better known as generally available or GA in the MySQL world) in the last 26 months. That is just a little over two...
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