HandlerSocket (NoSQL for InnoDB) added to Percona Server (PS MySQL 5.5 GA is...
Just wanted to highlight that Percona Server has now added HandlerSocket to its most recent release, being the first "MySQL fork/distribution" to ship it in easy to consume binary downloads....
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SkySQL Enterprise Products and Services: Welcome to 5.5!
A bit early for Christmas, or perhaps slightly delayed for Saint Lucia, MySQL 5.5 is finally GA. A fantastic present from Oracle for the whole MySQL Community, something that many wish unwrap and...
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Speaking at the O'Reilly MySQL Conference - April 2011
I will be speaking at least once at the 2011 O'Reilly MySQL conference. I have not heard back on all my proposed session but I will be talking about Open Source BI tools. There are several great...
View ArticleMySQL 5.5 GA announcement
This morning, Oracle gave a MySQL technology update that included the announcement that MySQL 5.5 is GA. The short list of exciting new and improved features is - InnoDB performance improvements...
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Percona and HandlerSocket
Percona just announced that they’re going to include HandlerSocket in the latest Percona build. This is huge news. In case you aren’t aware, HandlerSocket is a raw protocol interface that is similar to...
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MySQL 5.5 is GA and 5.5.8 missing from launchpad…
While it’s great that MySQL 5.5 is GA with the 5.5.8 release (you can download it here), I’m rather disappointed that the bzr repositories on launchpad aren’t being kept up to date. At time of writing,...
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A Pattern So Grand and Complex! (Part 1)
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. (Douglas Horton) No puzzle looks simpler than a Sudoku. But behind the very few rules of this game hides enormous complexity. It’s now proved that...
View ArticleMariaDB optimization for string related operations
In our upcoming MariaDB 5.3 release Monty optimized the internal string append code for performance. I tested his patch with a plain MariaDB 5.2 vs. a patched MariaDB 5.2 with sql-bench, which showed...
View ArticleMySQL 5.5 (aka superfast InnoDB) is GA
Oracle has finally announced the long time pending MySQL 5.5 as GA. The 5.5x branch has the following super improvements. Super Fast & Stable Innodb: Code from Innodb plugin 1.0.4x onwards,...
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Some hidden goods in MySQL 5.5
The announcement of MySQL 5.5 released as GA has outlined the improvements in this version, which indeed has enough good new features to excite most any user.There are two additions, though, that were...
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Thanks for releasing MySQL 5.5 GA!
I am excited to see that MySQL 5.5 GA (5.5.8) has been finally released . All of my ex-colleagues at MySQL/Oracle have done amazing jobs. I was also positively surprised that 5.5 was released on...
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Congratulations to Oracle and to the MySQL users for MySQL 5.5!
It's great to see the fruits of many years of labour being released as GA. Work on MySQL 5.5 started several years ago, and I remember announcing 5.5.0-m2 almost exactly a year ago, on 15 December...
View ArticleVideo: MySQL Cluster Overview by Bill Papp
At the December 2010 Boston MySQL User Group meeting a few days ago, Oracle/MySQL sales engineer Bill Papp gave a presentation on 'An Overview of MySQL Cluster'.Slides are online at...
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Semi-sync replication (5.5)
A bit unorthodox, I normally just write about MySQL Cluster here, but I just wanted to understand how much latency semi-sync replication adds.The test was very simple:two mysql servers, interconnected...
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A quick look at MySQL 5.5 GA
Congratulations to Oracle and the MySQL team for getting 5.5 out the door!I first have to acknowledge that I have not been able to follow the MySQL 5.5 development as closely as I would have wanted...
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HandlerSocket mySQL's NoSQL, PHP and Webscale
HandlerSocket is a server plug-in that interfaces with InnoDB directly bypassing for the most part the core mySQL server all together. Using Handler socket you do not connect to the traditional port...
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MySQL 5.5 - Upgrading From Previous Releases
MySQL 5.5 GA has finally arrived and, if you haven't done already, it's time to test it starting with the upgrade procedure. MySQL upgrades are usually easy and uneventful, not in this case so I...
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Percona Server 5.1.53-11.7
Percona Server version 5.1.53-11.7 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 5.1. Functionality...
View ArticleMySQL 5.5.8 GA and PHP 5.3.4 don’t get along with libmysql
Today I discovered that you are unable to compile the current stable PHP version 5.3.4 with yesterday’s MySQL 5.5.8 GA release. I was able to download the current MySQL 5.1.54 and compile without...
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