What’s your opinion of High Performance MySQL?
The second edition of High Performance MySQL has 27 reviews on Amazon, but the third edition only has 5 so far. By this point I assume many of you have a copy and have read it cover to cover. I’d...
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Graphing table_statistics
One useful feature of the Percona mysql builds are the User Statistics. They let you track detailed information about clients, individual user accounts, threads indexes and tables.In particular I find...
View ArticleHow common_schema split()s tables - internals
This post exposes some of the internals, and the SQL behind QueryScript's split. common_schema/QueryScript 1.1 introduces the split statement, which auto-breaks a "large" query (one which operates on...
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MySQL Cluster to InnoDB Replication Howto
In this blog post I will show you how to setup a replication from MySQL Cluster (ndbcluster) to a regular MySQL Server (InnoDB). If you want to understand the concepts, check out part 7 of our free...
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Chinese Planet
A big welcome to the China MySQL Community. We have just launched the Chinese MySQL Planet. Zhaoyang Jian (an Oracle Ace Director) has started us off with his blogs so please feel free to submit your...
View ArticleContinuent Announces New Hires
We are proud to announce the recent addition of three new team members: Ronald Bradford, Senior Engineer, has 24 years of professional RDBMS experience covering Ingres, Oracle and MySQL. His primary...
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Joining the Continuent Team
This month I have joined the team at Continuent. No stranger to the MySQL ecosystem, Continuent provides replication and clustering technology for managing data between MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL,...
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New strength for Continuent
It is public news now that Continuent has three new hires. I am particularly pleased with the news, as we are improving the team in three different directions: Services and management, with Ronald...
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My speaking engagements - Q4 2012
After a long pause in the speaking game, I am back.It's since April that I haven't been on stage, and it is now time to resume my public duties.I will speak at MySQL Connect in San Francisco, just at...
View ArticleI always trip on level ground
On the lighter side: I’ve always had trouble with mysqldump’s expected syntax. You know, as the author of a book and all that, you might think I can get this to work. But pretty much every time I run...
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MySQL Configuration Wizard - Don't always trust it...
So, the MySQL Configuration Wizard for making MySQL Easier to use on Windows will just plainly aid in setting up a safe and sound MySQL Configuration. Right? Just run it and you are safe. OK? But thing...
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Upcoming for Scalable Startups
Read the original article at Upcoming for Scalable StartupsJust back from the Labor Day holiday, and ready to dive back in.I thought this would be a great time to outline some of our upcoming topics so...
View ArticleMore GlassFish loadbalancing tips for Connector/J
Almost two weeks ago, I encouraged GlassFish users who need load-balanced JDBC connections to MySQL Cluster (or master-master replicated MySQL Server) to set the...
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PyTexas 2012
PyTexas 2012 will be held in College Station this weekend. I will be speaking on MySQL Update — MySQL 5.6, Cluster 7.3, and Beyond and Seven Database Tricks. PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleHow to find MySQL queries worth optimizing ?
One question I often get is how one can find out queries which should be optimized. By looking at pt-query-digest report it is easy to find slow queries or queries which cause the large portion of the...
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What's the innodb main thread really doing?
I've been trying to debug a lot of mutex issues lately, and the output from SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS is one of the first places to look for details. I noticed that there are many times when I see the...
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SQL Server 2012 Install
While testing the MySQL Workbench migration tool, I needed to install Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express (the free one up to 8 GB of data). These are my notes on installing the product, and you can...
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Intel SSD 910 vs HDD RAID in tpcc-mysql benchmark
I continue my benchmarks of Intel SSD 910, previous time I compared it with Fusion-io ioDrive http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2012/09/07/intel-ssd-910-in-tpcc-mysql-benchmark/. Now I want to test...
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SQL Server ODBC DSN
You must install and then configure a Windows Data Source Name (DSN) for SQL Server’s ODBC before you can connect MySQL Workbench to a SQL Server and migrate data. If you fail to set it up, you can’t...
View ArticleMySQL Connect: What to Expect From the Wondrous Land of MySQL Cluster
The MySQL Connect conference is only a couple of weeks away, with MySQL engineers, support teams, consultants and community aces busy putting the final touches to their talks. There will be many...
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