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7 essential tools for MySQL DBA
1. Percona Toolkit Percona Toolkit (aka Maatkit and Aspersa) is must have collection of advanced command-line tools which helps in performing tasks that are too difficult or complex to perform...
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IPv6 on database websites
After reading www.postgresq.org now active over IPV6 by default I quickly tried some other host to see what the current state of IPv6 is for some known database websites.$ getent hosts mysql.com...
View ArticleUKOUG Conference, Call for Papers Ends Friday
The UK Oracle User Group Conference is the UK's largest independent Oracle Technology & E-Business Suite conference. It takes place December 3-5 2012 in Birmingham. The call for papers is running...
View ArticleResult Cache Functions
I finally got around to cleaning up old contact me messages. One of the messages raises a question about RESULT_CACHE functions. The writer wanted an example implementing both a standalone schema and...
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What is ndb doing?
In MySQL cluster each SQL statement is translated inside the NDB storage engine to NDB low level protocol that is sent to the data nodes. For the performance it is most interesting how many data is...
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Performance Testing of MySQL Cluster: The flexAsynch Benchmark
Following the release of MySQL Cluster 7.2, the Engineering has been busy publishing a range of new performance benchmarks, most recently delivering 1.2 Billion UPDATE operations per Minute across a...
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OpenStack's Jenkins Job Filler
OpenStack comprises of many projects, all of which have code reviews via. Gerrit and every code review is tested with many tests on Jenkins. Whilst this is excellent for code quality this can get...
View ArticleSpeaking at OUGF Harmony Finland about Galera
Heli from Oracle User Group Finland invited me to speak at this years OUGF Harmony conference which starts tomorrow. Last year I had some proposals accepted but had to decline due to work travel. This...
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MySQL 5.6 Replication – webinar replay
MySQL 5.6 Replication - Global Transaction IDs On Wednesday (16th May 2012), Mat Keep and I presented on the new replication features that are previewed as part of the latest MySQL 5.6 Development...
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MySQL Cluster Manager 1.1.6 released
MySQL Cluster Manager 1.1.6 is now available to download from My Oracle Support. Details on the changes can will be added to the MySQL Cluster Manager documentation . Please give it a try and let me...
View ArticleOverlooked MySQL 5.6 New Features – TIMESTAMP and DATETIME improvements
Continuing my little tour of possibly overlooked new MySQL 5.6 features, I came across this oft-requested gem: For eons, MySQL has supported TIMESTAMP columns that could be automatically populated at...
View ArticleAdd Sugar to your billing
If a billing system as a person, it would be sociable. The chatty kind. Billing can not be alone, it is in its nature to be surrounded by other (hopefully friendly) systems. The ‘talking’ part between...
View ArticleScary Words – Apparently
The US Department of Homeland Security (you know that fast growing entity that didn’t exist pre-2001, that no politician wants to be responsible for shrinking for fear of being blamed in case anything...
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How To – Configure MySQL to Use UTF-8
Background Knowledge Using the character set UTF-8 allows for the use of any language, can represent every character in the Unicode character set and is backward compatibility with ASCII. Not to...
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Busy Week for MySQL next week
So what plans do you have next week ?MySQL will have an event for you regardless of your location next week.We start the week off in Germany at the Spring International PHP Conference. (June 3rd -...
View ArticleSee you at MySQL Innovation Day!
I’m excited to attend the MySQL Innovation Day at Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores next Tuesday. There are some great sessions planned on MySQL advances, including: InnoDB online operations Global...
View ArticleGetting rid of huge ibdata file, no dump required, part II
This post continues Getting rid of huge ibdata file, no dump required, part I, where I describe way of converting your single-tablespace InnoDB database into a file-per-table one, without the pain of...
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Some JSON please
One thing still missing from the basic MySQL stuff is some more JSON oriented features. After some use of JSON (here at Recorded Future, JSON is THE data format), I have begun to accept this format,...
View ArticleMySQL Connect: Interview with Tomas Ulin
The MySQL Connect conference is taking place September 29-30 in San Francisco. We asked a few questions about the event to Oracle’s VP of MySQL Engineering Tomas Ulin. Hi Tomas, to start with, what is...
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MySQL Cluster 7.2: Over 8x Higher Performance than Cluster 7.1
Summary The scalability enhancements delivered by extensions to multi-threaded data nodes enables MySQL Cluster 7.2 to deliver over 8x higher performance than the previous MySQL Cluster 7.1 release on...
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