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MySQL Workbench: Manage MySQL on Windows Servers the Windows way
The MySQL team has been continuously improving its products on the Windows platform. Along this line, we’ve responded to a request from our users of Workbench on Windows – to provide remote access to...
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Percona Training in London and Frankfurt
For those that missed it – last week we added training in Frankfurt and London to our website. This includes our new Operations Training announced in September. (While in Europe, we’d love to speak at...
View ArticleWish list for MySQL thread polling events
It is great to draw inspiration from other Open Source communities. Brad Fitzpatrick recently wrote about Android Strict Mode. His twitter tag line for this post was “I see you were doing 120 ms in a...
View ArticleZabbix Templates for MySQL
We recently had a client come to us, and ask us to improve their MySQL monitoring in Zabbix. So, we did. The approach we took was to port the MySQL script from the superb mysql-cacti-templates project...
View ArticleVideo: Database Change Management by Jacob Nikom
At the November 2010 Boston User Group, Jacob Nikom presented his solution for database change management using MySQL. This system is designed to keep a repository of tables and data that an...
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MySQL Sessions at OOW Beijing
If you are fortunate enough to be in Beijing this week for Oracle Openworld, there are several sessions planned on MySQL to choose from. The English site is somewhat hard to navigate, so I humbly...
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How to make WordPress faster without the use of a plugin
When it comes to web page load time, she should always say “wow, that was fast”. A Quick update based on Frederick’s comment below ** Please do not take these tips as THE answer, this is a complement,...
View ArticleSimple Automation - Examining your MySQL Index Usage
I have a new article posted on the Database Journal... - Abstract - In the majority of MySQL systems, the schema is always updated and changed based on the needs and focus of the application, making it...
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In search of a BSD/LGPL/Apache licensed client library for MySQL and MariaDB
We have received many requests for a client library for MariaDB (and MySQL) under a license other than the GPL, and decided that it's now time to do something about it.Some time ago we released the...
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Percona Server now both SQL and NOSQL
Just yesterday we released Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3 which includes HandlerSocket. This is third-party plugin, developed Inada Naoki, DeNA Co., Ltd and explained in Yoshinori Matsunobu’s blog post....
View ArticleMySQL 5.5 is GA - Interview with Tomas Ulin
Oracle Magazine features editor Rich Schwerin interviews Tomas Ulin, Vice President, MySQL Engineering, who answers questions about the GA release of MySQL 5.5.PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View Articleopenark-kit (rev. 170): new tools, new functionality
I’m pleased to announce a new release of the openark kit. There’s a lot of new functionality inside; following is a brief overview. The openark kit is a set of utilities for MySQL. They solve everyday...
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Five reasons to upgrade to MySQL 5.5
I have been looking forward to the general availability (GA) release of MySQL 5.5 since is was publically announced in September that we would see this in 2010. While I already have a production client...
View ArticlePackages needed for building MySQL/MariaDb/Percona
From a stock/standard/typical/desktop install of Linux, it seems these are required in order to build MySQL/MariaDb/Percona forks: gcc gcc-c++ automake libtool bison ncurses (Thanks Justin!) Do...
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Defining clouds, web services, and other remote computing
Series What are the chances for a free software cloud? Resolving the contradictions between web services, clouds, and open source Defining clouds, web services, and other remote computing Why clouds...
View ArticleMySQL 5.5 is GA!
It is my pleasure to announce that MySQL 5.5 is now GA and ready for production deployment. You can read Oracle's official press release here. I am excited about 5.5 because of the performance and...
View ArticleMySQL 5.5 published as Generally Available release – and available at...
Today, December 15, 2010, MySQL 5.5.8 was released – and is now generally available. db4free.net has been updated to 5.5.8 GA. Read the Introduction to MySQL 5.5 to find out what’s new and … give it a...
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oak-hook-general-log: your poor man’s Query Analyzer
The latest release of openark kit introduces oak-hook-general-log, a handy tool which allows for some analysis of executing queries. Initially I just intended for the tool to be able to dump the...
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MySQL 5.5: CMake replaces autoconf/automake on all platforms, support for...
There has been a lot of buzz about the MySQL 5.5 GA release and its new features and other user-visible improvements. In this blog post, I'd like to touch on a less noticeable, but still important...
View ArticleMySQL 5.5 is GA!
Today it was announced that MySQL 5.5 is GA. This is very exciting news; we have not had a GA announcement since MySQL 5.1 two years ago. There are tons of new features, mostly performance...
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