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Add RSS feeds to your Twitter stream using MySQL and Perl
Adding good content to Twitter can be a pain. I can’t do it during working hours, and I don’t have much time at night. But, the more content you have, the more followers you can gain, and the more your...
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Sunsetting HPCloud, whom contributed to making MySQL better
Recently at Percona Live Amsterdam I gave a talk titled Databases in the Hosted Cloud (I’m told I got a 4/5 rating for this talk). It was before AWS re:Invent, so obviously some of the details in the...
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MySQL Sessions @ Oracle OpenWorld
Oracle OpenWorld can be pretty intimidating. Besides the extra fifty thousand bodies in an around Moscone Center in San Francisco, there is an overload of amazing information that bombards you from all...
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Use MySQL and Perl to automatically find, follow and unfollow twitter users
A friend of mine asked me how they could automatically follow and unfollow people on Twitter. But they didn’t want to follow just anyone and everyone. He had a Twitter account which they used for...
View ArticleMulti-threaded Replication Performance in MySQL 5.7
Now that MySQL 5.7 has become GA it’s a good time to highlight how much performance has improved in replication since the 5.6 era. This blog post will focus on the performance of the multi-threaded...
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Add RSS feeds to your Twitter stream using MySQL and Perl
Adding good content to Twitter can be a pain. I can’t do it during working hours, and I don’t have much time at night. But, the more content you have, the more followers you can gain, and the more your...
View ArticleDerived Tables in MySQL 5.7
In MySQL 5.7, we have enhanced the optimizer so that derived tables and views are handled more consistently. Just to recap: A derived table is a subquery that can take the place of a table in the FROM...
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Open-sourcing Pinterest MySQL management tools
In the past, we’ve shared why you should love MySQL and how it helped Pinterest scale via sharding. At Oracle Open World today, we announced that we’re open-sourcing the vast majority of our automation...
View ArticleMySQL for Visual Studio 1.2
MySQL for Visual Studio 1.2 (1.2.5 GA, published on Thursday, 29 Oct 2015)PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
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Become a ClusterControl DBA: Adding Existing Databases and clusters
In our previous blog post we covered the deployment of four types of clustering/replication: MySQL Galera, MySQL master-slave replication, PostgreSQL replication set and MongoDB replication set. This...
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MySQL 5.7 first impressions on group-replication
During the last few weeks I’ve been testing and playing a bit with the new group-replication plugin available for MySQL 5.7. Before continuing I’d like to clarify some aspects: the plugin is only...
View ArticleUbuntu 15.10 LAMP server tutorial with Apache 2.4, PHP 5 and MariaDB (instead...
LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache 2.4 web server on an Ubuntu 15.10 server with PHP 5 support (mod_php) and MySQL / MariaDB. Additionally, I...
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MySQL and Trojan.Chikdos.A
Symantec published a blog post yesterday regarding MySQL and the Trojan.Chikdos.A as can be seen here The Symantec post gives detail into the behavior of the Trojan and it’s effects on the Windows...
View ArticleSemi-synchronous Replication Performance in MySQL 5.7
With MySQL 5.7 becoming GA it’s a good time to highlight how much performance has improved in replication since the 5.6 era. A previous blog post focused on the performance of the multi-threaded slave...
View ArticleSlides for MySQL Sys Schema Deep Dive, Oracle OpenWorld 2015
Here are the slides for my talk at Oracle OpenWorld 2015: Enjoy!PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
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MariaDB 10.0.22 now available
Download MariaDB 10.0.22 Release Notes Changelog What is MariaDB 10.0? MariaDB APT and YUM Repository Configuration Generator The MariaDB project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of...
View ArticlePerformance of Connection Routing plugin in MySQL Router 2.0
The MySQL family has grown with the introduction of the Router, which brings high-availability and Fabric integration to all MySQL clients independently of any specific connector support for them. This...
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The Client Library, Part 1: The API, the Whole API and Nothing but the API
The client library — libmysqlclient — is part of the same source code repository as the server. It comes both as a dynamic link library (.so), also called a shared library, and as a static link...
View ArticleWelcome ScaleDB 15.10!
Time really flies. A bit less than 4 months ago, I wrote a post about my decision to join ScaleDB. Today, after 4 months and a lot of excitement working with a great team and genuinely good people, I...
View ArticleSlides of HOL3348 on Getting started with MySQL Cluster
Hi!Thanks everyone who attended the hands-on lab session on MySQL Cluster at Oracle OpenWorld today.The following are the links for the slides, the HOL instructions, and the HOL extra...
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