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Strata Gems: Who needs disks anyway?
We're publishing a new Strata Gem each day all the way through to December 24. Yesterday's Gem: Kinect democratizes augmented reality. Today's databases are designed for the spinning platter of the...
View ArticleOurSQL Episode 26: Zombies!
Show notes for Episode 26: Zombies! Question: We wondered: Is enterprise backup still using myisamhotcopy for myisam tables? From MySQL Product Manager Mike Frank, who is in charge of MySQL Enterprise...
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Cluster Stack update for Debian
Last week, the Linux-HA project made its Heartbeat 3.0.4 and Cluster Glue 1.0.7 release, and Pacemaker released 1.0.10 a few weeks back. Thanks to the amazing Simon Horman (horms to IRC regulars),...
View ArticleThis blog served by MySQL v5.5
MySQL v5.5 is GA and my blog, using WordPress 3.0, runs on it. My personal highlight of this new MySQL version? The fact that it is released by Oracle.PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
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Why clouds and web services will continue to take over 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...
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451 CAOS Links 2010.12.17
CPTN Holdings unmasked. Oracle updates MySQL. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and Identi.ca, and daily at Paper.li/caostheory “Tracking the open source news wires, so you...
View ArticleMySQL v5.5 and Python
MySQL v5.5 is GA, but is it working with Python? Yes, it does. Below you’ll find some quick, small tests I did with MySQLdb, oursql and our own MySQL Connector/Python. My desktop is a Mac, but when it...
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Faulty Physical Ram
Some times it's very difficult to find out exact issue. Specially When it's related with hardware. Similar scenario, i faced with a client. I have been provided with a new box to setup mysql server....
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Impact of the number of idle connections in MySQL
Be careful with my findings, I appear to have compile in debug mode, I am redoing the benchmarks. Updated version here. I recently had to work with many customers having large number of connections...
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HandlerSocket: Why did our version not take off?
There is quite a buzz about HandlerSocket built into the latest Percona Server. I agree with Henrik that this is a brilliant idea that is going to go very far!But I did the same thing 2.5 years ago...
View ArticleWhat’s new in mk-query-digest: EXPLAIN sparklines
This month’s Maatkit release has some nice new features and improvements to mk-query-digest. There is one that deserves its own blog post: EXPLAIN sparklines. A “sparkline” is a simple type of chart...
View ArticleA step by step guide to upgrading to MySQL 5.5
MySQL 5.5 has created a lot of hype and its not just hype, there are major performance enhancements not only in the MySQL server itself but in the newer InnoDB plugin shipped with MySQL 5.5. That's...
View ArticlePHP driver for HandlerSocket (NoSQL for MySQL) spotted
Just a short note again on HandlerSocket developments: PHP bindings to the HandlerSocket client library have been spotted in the wild: http://code.google.com/p/php-handlersocket/ (I'd like to credit...
View ArticleObservations on Drizzle and PostgreSQL (followup on state of MySQL forks)
My recent account of The State of MySQL forks seems to have gotten quite a lot of attention. I promised to follow up with a separate piece about Drizzle and also PostgreSQL, as the other major open...
View ArticleSchedule for MySQL-and-beyond conference is live
O’Reilly’s 2011 edition of the MySQL conference has an expanded agenda, with good representation from Postgres, CouchDB, MongoDB, and others. Take a look at the full schedule listing, which is being...
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Are you using the deadline scheduler? (Part 1)
There have been many posts about performance, benchmarking and the results. Many DBAs have talked in the past about the deadline scheduler, available in all modern Linux distributions. The deadline...
View ArticlePHP 5.3.4 and MySQL 5.5.8 GA (libmysql)
As you are probably aware, PHP 5.3.4 does not compile with MySQL 5.5 GA. The details can be seen in MySQL bug queue. Basically, the problem boils down to incorrect installation of MySQL headers. MySQL...
View ArticleKSCOPE11 - ODTUG Conference June 2011
Hey everyone, I always attend the O'REILLY MySQL Conference in April every year, but this year found another interesting conference that brings both Oracle and MySQL users together, KSCOPE11. This will...
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Impact of the number of idle connections in MySQL (version 2)
Last Friday I published results of DBT2 performance while varying the number of idle connections here, but I had compiled MySQL with the debugging code enabled. That completely screw up my results, be...
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Strata Gems: Turn MySQL into blazing fast NoSQL
We're publishing a new Strata Gem each day all the way through to December 24. Yesterday's Gem: What your inbox knows. The trend for NoSQL stores such as memcache for fast key-value storage should give...
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