How to Stop Playing “Hop and Seek”: MySQL Cluster and TokuDB, Part 2
In my last post, I wrote that I observed many similarities between TokuDB and MySQL Cluster. Many features that benefit TokuDB also benefit MySQL Cluster, and vice versa, with Hot Column Addition and...
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Early Bird Discount Ends Soon!
I wanted to make sure and point out to everyone that the MySQL Connect Early Bird Discount Ends July 13th!Don't forget to register now and save yourself a couple hundred dollars.With over 77 sessions...
View ArticleContinuent Tungsten @ Percona Live NYC
Consolidate your sharded database indexes in real-time by Jeff Mace, Director of Professional Services at Continuent: How do you find one users’ data when it is located in one of a hundred schemas?...
View ArticleIs 100% uptime really possible?
This post isn’t about NuoDB, although it was prompted by the phrase “100% uptime” that I’ve seen them use a few times. I want to suggest that people think slightly differently about uptime and...
View ArticleContinuent Tungsten @ MySQL Connect
Replicating from MySQL to Oracle Database and Back Again by Robert Hodges and Linas Virbalas MySQL High Availability: Power and Usability by Giuseppe MaxiaPlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleDo you like a question section?
I thought it would be useful if people could simply ask questions about MySQL joins and have a place where they get an answer. Do you think it’s a useful feature? PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleIn depth explanation of SQL join types
While we at mysqljoin.com want to provide simply and straightforward tutorials which are easy to understand, we love in depth documentation as well. And since relational databases are very complex, a...
View ArticlePlacement over substance
I was stunned when a SQL query raised an ERROR 1630 (42000) telling me the SUM function didn’t exist in MySQL 5.5.23. The fix was simple. The opening parenthesis of the SUM function must be on the same...
View ArticlePrepared statement peculiarities (P_S to the rescue)
Prepared statements have been with MySQL since version 4.1, including the protocol plumbing that helps support it. What I didn’t realize – until a recent expedition through a general query log – is...
View ArticleJenkins Bazaar plugin 1.19
I recently released a new version of the Bazaar plugin for Jenkins. This release was inspired by a problem we noticed at Percona. It is: run “bzr revert” after a pull, as if you have a directory that...
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Why You Should Attend MySQL Connect, and Register Now
MySQL Connect is taking place on September 29 and 30 in San Francisco. The early bird discount enabling you to save US$ 500 is only running for a few more days, until July 13. Are you still wondering...
View ArticleNotes on row based replication
MySQL's Row Based Replication (RBR) succeeds (though not replaces) Statement Based Replication (SBR), as of version 5.1. Anyone who is familiar with replication data drift -- the unexplained growing...
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MySQL Performance Schema Statement Digests
MySQL 5.6.5 was released recently, with many a great blog written by various developers involved in making it such an awesome release. The list is large, I’d recommend reading the change log. The MySQL...
View ArticleNew ps_helper pages
I’ve been updating my (sadly very very neglected, and hacked) blog recently, and along with the new look and feel, have put together a new page for ps_helper (a schema of helper views and procedures...
View ArticleWarning and error information in stored procedures revisited
Originally way to handle warnings and errors in MySQL stored routine was designed as follows: if warning was generated during stored routine execution which has a handler for such a warning/error,...
View ArticleGenerate dummy test data for MySQL using routines
At times you’ll find yourself responsible for generating test data for newly created tables for testing or sampling purpose. There are tools that will generate random data for you but...PlanetMySQL...
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Comments Gone
Well seeing as I'm going to open this blog up again I figured I better come in and have a little clean up. Checking the comments it was obvious that most of the 1000+ comments were some form of spam so...
View ArticleI’ll see you at MySQL Connect! I will … won’t I?
I’ve had a talk accepted for the MySQL Connect conference, in San Francisco at the end of September. I’ll be talking about Profiling with Performance Schema. Here’s the abstract: The Performance Schema...
View ArticleMySQL Monitoring on the cloud
Hi, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Amazon EC2 is known for its uptime, thereby making it the right candidate for...
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MySQL Connect — Come learn from the best
Did you ever wonder how the big companies run things behind the scenes? Come to the MySQL Connect Conference and learn from the best. There are over seventy sessions and the following session are from...
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