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Percona Server 5.1.51-rel11.5
Percona Community, Percona Server version 5.1.51-rel11.5 is now available for download. The main purpose of this release is to update the current Percona stable release to the latest version of MySQL...
View Articleselect *,colname | select colname,* that is the question
Strangely enough, select *,colname from tbname; works just fine, whereas select colname,* from tbname; fails! So if you would like to see all columns, but have one or more of them displayed to the left...
View ArticleMariaDB 5.2: Using MariaDB as a column store and Virtual Columns for indexing
This is a followup to my previous post about Virtual Columns. In this post I will do a more in-depth test on using virtual columns in a use case where MariaDB is used as a document store. Document...
View ArticleIDC Insight Report: "MySQL Thrives"
In its "Insight" Research Report from October 2010 "Messages from Oracle OpenWorld 2010: Exadata Exceeds Expectation and MySQL Thrives", IDC Carl W. Olofson notes: "Last but not least, Oracle...
View ArticleBacula 5.0.3 binary rpms for CentOS 5 on http://postfix.wl0.org/ftp/bacula/
I’ve recently updated my CentOS 5 x86_64 rpms for bacula-5.0.3. Hope they are useful to you.PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
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SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS truncation, innodb_truncated_status_writes
Another piece of good news for MySQL 5.5 - the output of SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS has now been increased from 64kB, to 1MB. For those running with systems that have thousands of running transactions,...
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Pushed down JOINs - Webinar
On Thursday, November 04, at 0900PST/1700CET/1600GMT there is a webinar about Pushed Down Joins. This webinar will explain how Pushed Down Joins works, and some performance numbers.Register here:...
View ArticleLog Buffer #204, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Welcome to Log Buffer, the weekly roundup of happenings in the database world. Lots to cover this week, so let’s get on with Log Buffer #204. Enjoy! Oracle: Pythian’s Gwen Shapira dabbles with MySQL...
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Concepts in Streaming SQL
SQLstream's marketing head Rick Saletta just wrote a layman's guide to streaming SQL. It's short, sweet, entirely buzzword-free, and a good introduction to streaming queries. So I thought I'd share the...
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Into the sunset
After four years working with the MySQL team, under three different companies, it's time for me to pursue a new career. Tomorrow is my last working day at Oracle. (Working? But it's Sunday! So, ehm,...
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Oracle UKOUG
..I'll be speaking in it: http://techandebs.ukoug.org/default.asp?p=5434&dlgact=shwprs&prs_prsid=5690&day_dayid=47 There are quite a few good speakers from the MySQL community there, I...
View ArticleMySQL Paginated displays – How to kill performance vs How to improve...
Pagination is used very frequently in many websites, be it search results or most popular posts they are seen everywhere. But the way how it is typically implemented is naive and prone to performance...
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LAMP stack Halloween cake
Barry Jaspan and his wife Heather spent 20 hours creating this incredible cake for Acquia's Halloween party. Creative duo! Not only did it look great, it was yummy. Trick or treat! PlanetMySQL Voting:...
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Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.10 (LAMP)
Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 10.10 (LAMP) LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on an Ubuntu 10.10...
View ArticleSlides from IPC and PHP Barcelona
Recently I gave a few public presentations and started to convert the slides for making them available online. Here's the first bunch with slides from two conferences which were held in October, the...
View ArticleMariaDB 5.2: Benchmarking Virtual Columns, Views and ExtractValue()
In this post I will share results on some "benchmarking" I did on the database created in the previous post: MariaDB 5.2: Using MariaDB as a document store and Virtual Columns for indexing. In addition...
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Cloud, SaaS and The Consumerization of IT
I wrote a guest column for GigaOm on how open source software, cloud and software as a service are helping to bring about the consumerization of IT: namely bringing simplicity where complexity...
View ArticleInterview on webpulp.tv
Josh Owens of Webpulp.tv just posted an interview with me. Lots of good questions about MySQL, performance optimization, and Percona’s version of the server. Thanks Josh! Related posts:You have the...
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Webinar: navigating the changing landscape of open source databases
When we published our 2008 report on the impact of open source on the database market the overall conclusion was that adoption had been widespread but shallow. Since then we’ve seen increased adoption...
View ArticleLogLogic Leverages MySQL and Oracle Linux to Improve Performance and Reliability
LogLogic, a company that offers a comprehesive suite of Log Management and Security Event Management solutions, has embedded MySQL and Oracle Linux to improve performance and reliability of their...
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