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Scribd is Hiring (I’m Looking for an Operations Engineer to Join My Team)
Scribd is a top 100 site on the web and one of the largest sites built using Ruby on Rails. As one of the first rails sites to reach scale, we’ve built a lot of infrastructure and solved a lot of...
View Articlemylvmbackup HOWTO: minimal privileges & filesystem copy
This HOWTO discusses two (unrelated) issues with mylvmbackup: The minimal privileges required to take MySQL backups with mylvmbackup. Making (non compressed) file system copy of one’s data files....
View Articleembedded_innodb engine (HailDB Engine)
A whole bunch of stuff got merged to the embedded_innodb engine recently. The end game is to have the embedded_innodb engine be just linking to HailDB (where we’re continuing maintenance of Embedded...
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September world tour
I'm going to be at several conferences over the next month or so. I always like to meet up with people who are using mondrian, olap4j, Pentaho and LucidDB to do open source BI, so put these on your...
View ArticleStorage Engine independent test suite
This is something that has never existed in the MySQL world. Nothing to help you start developing your engine. Sure, you could start running the whole test suite against your engine…. but where it...
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New feature: Query profile
Users of the latest builds now have a GUI way to display a detailed query profile for the executed SQL in a query tab. Just check the Query profile tree node in the newly introduced "helpers" tree and...
View ArticleSales en: MySQL Performance Monitor
FromDual launches its database Performance Monitoring solution for MySQL / MariaDB. This solution provides monitoring capabilities for most MySQL Storage Engines (Aria, InnoDB, MyISAM, NDB, PBXT and...
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Upcoming High Availability Clustering miniconf at Linux Plumbers Conference
This year’s Linux Plumbers Conference is taking place November 3-5, in Cambridge, MA, United States. The CfP is already closed and the program is due any day now, but the co-located miniconference on...
View ArticleOracle is improving MySQL
I’ve noticed that a steady and perhaps even growing number of bug reports and feature requests are getting resolved for the next milestone release. I continue to see signs that Oracle’s next release of...
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Open source and Windows 8: spotlight on Microsoft’s open source interop strategy
It seems safe to say that Oracle is currently ahead of Microsoft when it comes to the company with the most contentious relationship with open source. To some extent that is due Oracle’s questionable...
View ArticleImproving InnoDB Transaction Reporting
Everybody knows that parsing the output of SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS is hard, especially when you want to track the information historically, or want to aggregate any of the more dynamic sections such...
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Binary Log Group Commit - Recovery
It was a while since I wrote the previous article, but the merging of Oracle and Sun here resulted in quite a lot of time having to be spent on attending various events and courses for legal reason...
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Announcing Training for Operations Teams
We're opening up registration for our new training courses today. In short: we are moving from two days to a new four-day format. The new additions are created by: Splitting our current InnoDB day in...
View ArticleMySQL at FrOSCon
Oh time is flying! - This weekend it is already time for FrOSCon, the Free and Open source Conference in St. Augustin close to Western Germany's former capitol Bonn. The conference consists out of a...
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Review of MySQL High Availability by Charles Bell, Mats Kindahl and Lars...
The kind folks at O'Reilly sent me MySQL High Availability by Charles Bell, Mats Kindahl and Lars Thalmann . In summary, the book is awesome. Personally I didn't think that Replication was enough of a...
View ArticleOpenSQL Camp Europe: Some last-minute changes to the schedule
In just two days the OpenSQL Camp Europe (hosted by the excellent FrOSCon) will kick off!We've had a few last-minute changes to the schedule, as some speakers could not make it due to visa or family...
View ArticleSpeaking at the DOAG Conference in Nuremberg
The DOAG ("Deutsche ORACLE Anwendergruppe e.V.") is the German association of users of Oracle products. In November 2010 (16th-18th), they will hold their annual Oracle Users Conference 2010, which...
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Percona talks at OpenSQL Camp this weekend
Four Perconians (perconites?) will be at OpenSQL Camp in Sankt Augustin, Germany this weekend presenting talks on: Recovery of Lost or Corrupted InnoDB Tables Keep your MySQL backend online no matter...
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High availability for MySQL on Amazon EC2 – Part 4 – The instance restart script
This post is the fourth of a series that started here. From the previous of this series, we now have resources configured but instead of starting MySQL, Pacemaker invokes a script to start (or restart)...
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MySQL at Oracle Open World - San Francisco 2010
Everybody is very interested in understanding the Oracle message about MySQL. Oracle is responding with a "MySQL Sunday" and a number of excellent presentations throughout the week in San Francisco...
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