The Sound and the NoSQL Fury
The signal-to-noise ratio in the NoSQL world has made it hard to figure out what’s going on, or even who has something new. For all the talk of performance in the NoSQL world, much of the most exciting...
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MySQL Innovation Day Abstracts
Do not forget to register for the free Webcast of MySQL Innovation Day. Abstracts Better Availability with InnoDB Online Operations Calvin Sun, Sr. Development Manager for InnoDB, Oracle Many top Web...
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MySQL Events that I don't want to miss
Do you want to closely follow what MySQL is doing around the globe? We've created a Lanyrd guide just for that. It's curated by the MySQL Community, Marketing, Presales and Product Management teams and...
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Setting up MySQL Cluster 7.2
I decided to try the claim that MySQL Cluster is a great Key-Value store. I have been thinking about trying this for some time now, my JSON import tool for MySQL was a starting point for being able to...
View ArticleOurSQL Episode 93: A GUI is Worth a Thousand Commandlines
This week we sit down with Rohit Nadhani from Webyog, and talk about SQLyog as a GUI for MySQL, and why veteran commandline users would benefit from using SQLyog. News/Events/Feedback Conferences: The...
View ArticleMore changes pushed for the Facebook patch for MySQL 5.1
I pushed more changes for MySQL 5.1.52 to Launchpad.export statistics for jemalloc - r3831, r 3835make connection accept faster - r3832, r3836, r3838, r3840, r3842, r3844, r3845, r3846, r3865Make...
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thread_concurrency doesn’t do what you expect
Over the last months I’ve seen lots of customers trying to tune the thread concurrency inside MySQL with the variable thread_concurrency. Our advice is: stop wasting your time, it does nothing on...
View ArticleImplicit Commit Functions?
Somebody asked about the possibility of putting DML statements inside MySQL stored functions. DML statements like the INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE. When I said, “Yes, you can put DML statements inside...
View ArticleMariaDB 5.5.24 released
If you’re not on the announce mailing list (low traffic) or following us on Facebook, you’ve missed the announcement of MariaDB 5.5.24 (release notes, changelog). Highlights include: Includes all...
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MySQL Disasters, and how to avoid yours
Download PDF Presentation Organizations are always making improvements for scalability, however disaster preparedness is the poor cousin. This presentation will show you how to easily avoid the most...
View ArticleSouth America Speaking Events
Following my 2 presentations at SouthEast LinuxFest on Friday and Open DB Camp on Sunday in Charlotte, NC, I will then be speaking at the first Latin America MySQL event in Buenos Aires, Argentina...
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PECL/mysqlnd_ms 1.4 - Load? MySQL? Clustering! Balancing!
Clustering databases is a mainstream technology. MySQL PHP users can take many approaches to load balancing, pooling and redirection. PECL/mysqlnd_ms is one solution. How does it handle transactions?...
View ArticleHTTP, JSON, JavaScript, Map and Reduce built-in to MySQL
Oracle MySQL Engineer Ulf Wendel delivered yesterday a talk about his Proof of Concept at the International PHP Conference in Berlin entitled: “HTTP, JSON, JavaScript, Map and Reduce built-in to MySQL...
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Foreign Keys in MySQL Cluster
Foreign Key constraints between tables The new MySQL Cluster 7.3 labs release introduces Foreign Keys to MySQL Cluster for the first time! This has been a feature requested by many, many people and has...
View ArticleOpen Database Camp at SouthEast LinuxFest 2012
I’ll be attending this year’s US based Open Database Camp from June 8-10 in Charlotte, NC. The conference is co-located with SouthEast LinuxFest 2012. It appears that OpenSQL Camp was renamed Open...
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Binary Log Group Commit in MySQL 5.6
With the release of MySQL 5.6 binary log group commit is included, which is a feature focused on improving performance of a server when the binary log is enabled. In short, binary log group commit...
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MySQL 5.6 makes leapfrog in performance
I blogged about how the April labs release 2012 made 5.6 improve performance of the Sysbench OLTP RO benchmark by more than 50%. Now we made an even more significant improvement of the MySQL 5.6...
View ArticleMySQL Cluster 7.3 Labs Release – Foreign Keys Are In!
Summary (aka TL/DR): Support for Foreign Key constraints has been one of the most requested feature enhancements for MySQL Cluster. We are therefore extremely excited to announce that Foreign Keys are...
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LOCK_open finally removed as a bottleneck in MySQL 5.6
From the very first day at MySQL, the LOCK_open mutex have been an infamous bottleneck. The road to removing it as a bottleneck has been a long one. Already in the MySQL 5.4 beta release we had some...
View ArticleHow Constant Contact Uses MySQL and Continuent Tungsten
MySQL and Continuent Tungsten at Constant Contact - How We Architected Our Replication StrategyThursday, June 14th10:00 am PDT/1:00 pm EDT19:00 CEST/18:00 BSTReserve your seat!Constant Contact is a...
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