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MySQL Innovation Day — live or webcast
MySQL Innovation Day is June 5th and you should attend in you are in the vicinity of Redwood Shores, California. But if you are not in the area, you can catch the live webcast. By the way, did I...
View ArticlePercona at SELF
There is a great conference – SELF (South East Linux Fest) taking place in June 8-9 in Charlotte,NC This conference has a great lineup for MySQL with 2 tracks on Friday dedicated to it. There are many...
View ArticleNew Faces and Funding to Take SkySQL to the Cloud
When we launched SkySQL at the company meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, in October 2010, I charged the SkySQL Team - then only 13 strong - to “Go Big, or Go Home”. Two weeks ago, while at our company...
View ArticleWhy your pre-4.1 client won’t like MySQL 5.6
I have to think that the “Client does not support authentication protocol” error message may be the single most common error ever encountered for MySQL. While it’s not exactly coming back in 5.6, those...
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Webinar: TokuDB v6 Replication Performance
TokuDB® is a proven solution that scales MySQL® and MariaDB® from GBs to TBs with unmatched insert and query speed, compression, and online schema flexibility. Tokutek’s recently launched TokuDB v6...
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Data compression in InnoDB for text and blob fields
Have you wanted to compress only certain types of columns in a table while leaving other columns uncompressed? While working on a customer case this week I saw an interesting problem where a table had...
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Scale-out your DB on ARM-based servers
Today, I think we witnessed a small sign for a big revolution...http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/256383/dell_reaches_for_the_cloud_with_new_prototype_arm_server.html"Dell announced a...
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TunnelMaker, a simple script to generate multi-hop SSH tunnels
SSH tunnels provide a very effective means to access remote services and applications. Not only does it provide encryption of data between hosts, but it allows you to route connections between a...
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MySQL at SELF
The South East Linux Fest is next week in Charlotte, North Carolina and will feature a MySQL day on Friday with two FULL tracks. MySQL Tracks for SELF This will be followed on Sunday by the Open...
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Formatting SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS outputs when “\n” are embedded as Text
Lately I’ve received a number of SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS outputs with embedded “\n” characters appearing as text, but not true line breaks. Of course this makes reading a long, INNODB STATUS nearly...
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A case for MariaDB’s Hash Joins
MariaDB 5.3/5.5 has introduced a new join type “Hash Joins” which is an implementation of a Classic Block-based Hash Join Algorithm. In this post we will see what the Hash Join is, how it works and for...
View ArticleMySQL, OOM Killer, and everything related
Do the operating systems kill your MySQL instances from time to time? Are some database servers swapping constantly? These are relatively common problems. Why? How to prevent them? Memory allocation...
View ArticleJoin Optimizations in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5
This is the third blog post in the series of blog posts leading up to the talk comparing the optimizer enhancements in MySQL 5.6 and MariaDB 5.5. This blog post is targeted at the join related...
View ArticleNext week MySQL Innovation Day has a great agenda
MySQL developers will cover upcoming features. The MySQL engineering team is driving MySQL forward and users feedback is welcomed. For those having tested the Development Milestone releases this is a...
View ArticleSkySQL Soaring to New Heights
In case you may have overlooked yesterday’s post from Ulf Sandberg, I thought I’d go ahead and reiterate the main points, as it is big news, at least for those interested in SkySQL. SkySQL has been...
View ArticleSkySQL Raises Additional 2.5 Million Dollars From California Technology Ventures
Yesterday, it was announced that SkySQL has raised an additional 2.5 million dollars in Series A funding from California Technology Ventures. This comes along with the news of the new CEO, Patrik...
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An introduction to JSON
JSON is a data format that has become very popular recently. The name JSON means "JavaScript Object Notation" and it's a bit misleading, as although the format originally was used in JavaScript, it has...
View ArticleThe best MySQL multi-master solution gets even better
The best (and truly the only) MySQL multi-master, multi-site solution on the market gets even better! Continuent is happy to announce immediate availability of Continuent Tungsten 1.5.New Continuent...
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Faster DROP TABLE courtesy of the InnoDB team
I backported the fix for faster DROP TABLE from MySQL 5.5 to 5.1 to compare it with my patch. I repeated the previous test for the official fix and was impressed. This is a great improvement from the...
View ArticleLog Buffer #274, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Technical blogging has become more than just a way to tell the world what the technologist did. It has become a vibrant medium through which the tech bloggers are sharing their experiences and teaching...
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