A look at MySQL 5.5 semi synchronous replication
This mode of replication is called semisynchronous due to the fact that it only guarantees that at least one of the slaves have written the transaction to disk in its relay log, not actually committed...
View ArticleMy wish list for OpenSQLCamp, Boston 2010
On Friday, October 15th, the third OpenSQLCamp in North America will start at 6pm with a social event and then continue with more technical stuff over the week end.Compared to the overcrowded Oracle...
View ArticleA MySQL-MariaDB playlist
Hakan and My have done an excellent job organizing our MariaDB developer meeting here in Istanbul. For the farewell dinner, Hakan asked what kind of music we'd like the DJ to play. I realized it is...
View ArticleA review of MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development by Golubchik and Hutchings
MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development MySQL 5.1 Plugin Development, by Sergei Golubchik and Andrew Hutchings, Packt 2010. About 250 pages. (Here’s a link to the publisher’s site.) This book is well worth...
View ArticleFree webinar: Delivering Scalability and High Availability with MySQL 5.5...
Simple Master -> Slave Replication MySQL 5.5 (currently at Release Candidate status) introduces a lot of enhancements to replication, making it even more robust and easy to manage. At 9:00 am PST...
View ArticleMySQL Cluster - Performance (UPDATE on PK) - >120K updates/sec
This post follows on the previous post on SELECT performance. In this post I want to show three things:How many single row UPDATEs per second you can do on on a Cluster with two data nodes (updating...
View ArticleCall for participation - MySQL Conference 2011
Gear up for the 2011 MySQL Conference! Get your presentations submitted soon, Call closes 11:59pm 10/25/2010 PDT. 2011 Conference Home Page Submit a Paper PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleMySQL Cluster - Performance (UPDATE on PK) - >120K tx/sec
This post follows on the previous post on SELECT performance. In this post I want to show three things:How many single row UPDATEs per second you can do on on a Cluster with two data nodes (updating...
View ArticleMySQL Cluster 7.1.8 binaries released
The binary version for MySQL Cluster 7.1.8 has now been made available at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/ A description of all of the changes (fixes) that have gone into MySQL Cluster 7.1.8...
View ArticleThe future of replication revealed in Istanbul
A very good meeting in Istanbul is drawing to an end. People from Monty Program, Facebook, Galera, Percona, SkySQL, and other parts of the community are meeting with one foot on the European continent...
View ArticleWhere does the Innodb Technology today come from?
Every so often I get a question on "where does Innodb technology come from right now?"I was thinking about it this morning and decided to break it out via a chart. This is a rough number, and in it I...
View ArticleConnecting JBDC to MySQL Enterprise Monitor’s Query Analyzer
With the release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM) 2.2, there is now the ability to monitor queries using the Query Analyzer (QUAN) without needing the agent proxy to be running. You can use a .NET or...
View ArticleHow Real is the Data Deluge?
It seems obvious that given the decreasing cost of storage and computation, there's going to be a significant increase in the volume of data that organizations accumulate over the next 10 years. But...
View ArticleSetting up OpenLDAP for MySQL Enterprise Monitor
The latest 2.2 release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM) has the ability to authenticate against LDAP. I decided to test this setup and for that, I had to create and populate an OpenLDAP server,...
View ArticleConfiguring MySQL Enterprise Monitor to authenticate from LDAP
In the last post, we saw how to create a test OpenLDAP server, populate it and secure it with SSL certificates. Now we are going to have a look at how to configure MySQL Enterprise Manager (MEM) to...
View ArticleJoining SkySQL Ab, back in the startup business
I swear, my intention was to go for a break. A year taking pictures, sharing them over the web, writing texts, running, kayaking, just being social. Honestly, ask my family and friends! But this was...
View ArticlePercona White Paper: Architecting SaaS Applications with XtraDB
Vadim and I have just published a new technical white paper. It shows how Percona Server with XtraDB can make large-scale multi-tenant databases easier to build with MySQL. Our experiences working with...
View ArticleWelcome, SkySQL!
It seems the SkySQL website just went live, which I hope will breath some life back into the MySQL ecosphere – it’s been a while since there’s been some new competition, especially in the style of...
View ArticleMySQL Workbench 5.2.29 GA Available
We’re proud to announce the next release of MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.29. This maintenance release focuses on general product improvement and usability. As always, we want to thank everyone for the...
View ArticleAnnouncing the General Availability of Zimbra Desktop 2.0
We are pleased to announce the general availability of Zimbra Desktop 2.0! This is a major milestone for the Zimbra team and includes significant feature and performance upgrades. The difference...
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