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MySQL on S3: performance with storage located across the continent
Can OLTP database workloads use Amazon S3 as primary storage? Now they can, thanks to the Cloud Storage Engine (ClouSE), but the question is: how fast? ClouSE on “across the street” vs. “across the...
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OSCON2012
OSCON2012 is just a few days away ! I will be in Portland for OSCON as well as the Community Leadership summit. I look forward to meeting with everyone. OSCON has another great lineup of database...
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Effective MySQL: Backup and Recovery
Effective MySQL: Backup and Recovery by Ronald Bradford Effective MySQL: Backup and Recovery by Ronald Bradford is hot off the press! This is the second book in the series and I hope to have a review...
View ArticleEOL of MySQL Forge
Forge was intended to be a community wiki resource for sharing information with each other. However, over the last few years, we have seen Forge used less and less by MySQL Community, and more by...
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Recent Presentations at Charlotte South East LinuxFest
At the recent South East LinuxFest in June 2012 I gave two MySQL presentations. The first was on Explaining the MySQL Explain. This presentation details the MySQL Query Execution Plan (QEP) of an SQL...
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So now Hadoop's days are numbered?
Earlier this week we all read GigaOM's article with this title:"Why the days are numbered for Hadoop as we know it"I know GigaOM like to provoke scandals sometimes, we all remember some other...
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Why I Wrote the Book – Oracle and Open Source
Read the original article at Why I Wrote the Book – Oracle and Open SourceBack in the late 90′s New York City was deep in the dot-com boom. Silicon Alley was being born, and a thousand internet...
View ArticleMySQL joins: ON vs. USING vs. Theta-style
What is the difference between the following three syntaxes? SELECT * FROM film JOIN film_actor ON (film.film_id = film_actor.film_id) SELECT * FROM film JOIN film_actor USING (film_id) SELECT * FROM...
View ArticleUnderstanding SHOW VARIABLES: DISABLED and NO values
When you use SHOW VARIABLES LIKE “have_%” to see whether a particular feature is enabled, you will note the value of NO for some, and DISABLED for others. These values are not intrinsically clear for...
View ArticleSQLyog MySQL GUI 10.2 Released
Changes (as compared to 10.12) include: Features: * Saved connections can now be exported and imported. The option is available in the ‘tools’ menu. * Added an option to open exported CSV and Excel XML...
View ArticleSlides From MySQL, Geek Management and Good Ideas for DBA Talks in Trinidad...
In the past two days I was fortunate enough to speak to two different groups of people at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Tertiary Education in the Parliament building in Port of Spain,...
View ArticleMeet Percona Team at OSCON
Yes, We will be at OSCON next week. I will be talking about Optimizing MySQL Configuration and host a BOF on MySQL Sharding Replication and Clustering if you’re interested in any of these technologies...
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Is this a new golden age for MySQL?
MySQL has taken another leap forward. It is not a dramatic new feature or my long requested –run-faster command line option. Recruiters are now very actively seeking MySQL Database Administrators and...
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Upcoming MySQL Connect Presentations
The MySQL Connect 2012 conference event being held in San Francisco on Sep 29-30 has a long list of quality MySQL speakers including myself. I will be giving 2 presentations on: CON8322 – Lessons from...
View ArticleMySQL Infusion UDF for statistical analysis
Since I use MySQL for the statistical analysis on a project, I wanted to optimize the database queries and learned a lot about stuff like number theory, set theory and partial sums. I took my MySQL...
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Can InnoDB do 100k IOPS?
I returned to a long unfinished change to improve the efficiency of the code in InnoDB that finds free pages when the buffer pool is full. It took me a day to get the change ready for benchmarks and...
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MySQL Connect Attendee ToolKit Available
Are you speaking, attending or exhibiting at MySQL Connect? Banners, buttons and other resources are at your disposal in our attendee toolkit! Some examples below: Would you like to help promote the...
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Book Review — Effective MySQL: Backup and Recovery
Effective MySQL: Backup and Recovery Practical Knowledge for Business Continuity Includes MySQL 5.5 GA, MySQL 5.6 DMR, and MySQL in the Cloud Ronald Bradford Oracle ACE DirectorEffective MySQL: Backup...
View ArticleRecent Presentations Buenos Aires MySQL/NoSQL/Cloud Conference
The first annual Latin America MySQL/NoSQL/Cloud Conference was held in Buenos Aires Argentina from June 26-28. Kudos to Santiago Lertora from Binlogic who had the vision for the conference in his...
View ArticleNIST::NVD 1.00.00
I’m leaving myself some room for bug fixes. It works for us in house. I would love to help others to give it a try. especially those who could benefit from making nearly immediately answered queries to...
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