The Explain Analyzer and HeidiSQL
A few months ago we announced the EXPLAIN Analyzer, a simple tool to help you understand how MariaDB / MySQL was running queries. For users of HeidiSQL this is now even easier. As discussed in their...
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Y Gatorz are Considering Moving Back to a Gator Farm Instead of MapReducing...
NSFW (audio) “…pipe your data to /dev/null – it will be very fast.” “Does /dev/null support sharding?” NSFW (audio) “…the only thing constructive we could have used their source files for was as random...
View ArticleSubmit your proposal for Percona Live London 2012 Now !
Call for papers is still open for Percona Live London 2012, but only for few more days. We’re looking for great talks relevant for MySQL Ecosystem it could be about MySQL and its variants as well as...
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Verifying a Perl Socket
Using a lowercase hostname is typical but I got sloppy on a Windows 7 installation, after all Windows is case insensitive, and I used a mixed case hostname. It raised an interesting error when...
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Free but not Gratis: A call for Open Source for everyone!
The term Open Source is not as old as you may think, and the concept actually predates the name. Initially the keyword was Free not Open, but Free is here in the sense of Freedom not in the sense...
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MySQL Cluster performance revisited - tcmalloc kicks some ***
My now long-running series of posts on getting max performance from a very simple MySQL Cluster setup (see details here) is continuing here. As a short intro to what I am trying out here, is to see if...
View ArticleAnnouncing Percona Server 5.5.27-28.0
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.27-28.0 on August 23rd, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.27, including...
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Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Squeeze
Virtual Hosting With vsftpd And MySQL On Debian Squeeze Vsftpd is one of the most secure and fastest FTP servers for Linux. Usually vsftpd is configured to work with system users. This document...
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MySQL Federated table
This blog will explain you how to use Federated tables in MySQL. Just follow the steps mentioned below to use Federated table in your MySQL server: About Federated Engine in MySQL: The FEDERATED...
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10x Insertion Performance Increase for MongoDB with Fractal Tree Indexes
The challenge of handling massive data processing workloads has spawned many new innovations and techniques in the database world, from indexing innovations like our Fractal Tree® technology to a...
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MySQL Cluster performance up again, or CLIENT_COMPRESS considered harmful
I'm back again (previous post in ths series is here)., with some interesting finds related to some more testing of MySQL Cluster testing (yes, I have promissed to test more things than this, but I got...
View ArticleSkySQL and MariaDB Working Together to Keep MySQL an Open Ecosystem
I pledged, in my first post last month, that SkySQL will do its part to promote the best of MySQL and its community. Given the recent discovery that Oracle is no longer publishing test cases for bug...
View ArticleOblakSoft Cloud Storage Engine Newsletter, August 2012
ClouSE version 1.0b.1.3 and 64bit WordPress on S3 / Yapixx refresh is released OblakSoft recommends upgrading ClouSE to the latest version 1.0b.1.3 that fixes an issue with some SELECT statements....
View ArticleAvoiding statement-based replication warnings
Although not perfect, MySQL replication was probably the killer feature that made MySQL the default database for web applications some time ago. Since then, MySQL replication has been improved greatly,...
View ArticleBut what about Drizzle?
I got several comments and questions on my previous blog "The State of the MySQL forks". One question was "Why didn't you mention Drizzle?" So I will say something about Drizzle here before concluding...
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Interview with Lenz Grimmer about MySQL Connect
Keith Larson: Thank you for allowing me to do this interview with you. I have been talking with a few different Oracle ACEs about the MySQL Connect Conference. I figured the MySQL community might...
View ArticleMozilla DB News, Fri 24 August – Puppet, Foreign Keys, MyISAM tables
This is the first full week I have been at work for 5 full days *and* have not traveled, in 9 weeks. I felt extremely productive this week because of it! The database team also got a bit of a boost...
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MySQL Utilities mysqldbcompare
Need to copy a database from another server to another and make certain that the two are identical? The previous blog entry was a quick into to mysqldbcopy from the MySQL Utilities. This time we use...
View ArticleAvoiding a MySQL Data Blackout in Amazon
MySQL data rules the cloud, but recent experience shows us that there's no substitute for maintaining copies of data, across availability zones, when it comes to Amazon Web Services (AWS) data...
View ArticleFull Text Search Webinar Questions Followup
I presented a webinar this week to give an overview of several Full Text Search solutions and compare their performance. Even if you missed the webinar, you can register for it, and you’ll be emailed...
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