Too Much MySQL going on?
There have been some folks asking about what is going to happen with Collaborate 11 and the O'Reilly MySQL Conference overlapping on the calendar this April. It just happens that the two shows over lap...
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On Writing a Book, Pt. 5 - The Contract
This is part five of an ongoing series about my experiences while writing the MySQL Admin Cookbook for Packt Publishing. All previous parts can be found under the mysql-admin-cookbook label. After the...
View ArticleDueling Conferences and the Art of Hyperbole
Last week someone sent me an article about the “dueling” MySQL conferences from IOUG and O’Reilly. On the one hand, I find it really entertaining that there’s a perception that, three years ago, when...
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Something awesome in InnoDB -- the insert buffer
The InnoDB insert buffer significantly reduces the disk IO required to support a change intensive workload when the database does not fit in the buffer pool. Eventually I must begin calling it the...
View ArticleMySQL 5.5 Does Windows - Oracle TechCast Live with Mike Frank
Recorded Live Interview of Product Manager Mike Frank who explains why MySQL 5.5 offers the best performance on Windows yet.PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleO’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2011 – register now to save!
Its that time of year again. The O’Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo 2011 happening April 11-14 2011, in Santa Clara, California. As co-chair this year with Brian Aker, I’m pretty excited at the...
View Article2011 MySQL community dinner (west) at the O’Reilly MySQL Conference
This year’s facts: What: MySQL community dinner (west) Who: me, you, and many MySQL community members When: Monday, April 11th – Meet at 6:30 at the Hyatt Santa Clara or at 7 pm at the restaurant...
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Comparing InnoDB to MyISAM Performance
The MySQL performance team in Oracle has recently completed a series of benchmarks comparing Read / Write and Read-Only performance of MySQL 5.5 with the InnoDB and MyISAM storage engines. Compared to...
View ArticleIs your MySQL monitoring tool cloud ready?
Cloud, cloud, cloud. Cloud computing has become the phrase du jour, says one analyst from Gartner. But with many moving to cloud for its obvious benefits, it can no longer be ignored. An offshoot of...
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Joining the Oracle ACE program
A few days ago I received an invitation to join the Oracle ACE program, which is a group of strong community enthusiasts and advocate of Oracle products.Since I have been a vocal member of the MySQL...
View ArticleOne more week to submit talks for the Harmony conference in Helsinki, Finland...
Just a quick reminder: the Oracle user groups of Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Russia are organizing a joint conference, the Harmony. It will take place on May 19th-20th in Helsinki, Finland. I've met...
View ArticlePercona Live: Venu Anuganti; early bird registration expires tomorrow
Today we are announcing Venu Anuganti as a guest speaker to Percona Live: San Francisco. Venu works as a Data architect, evaluating and implementing high performance SQL/NoSQL data store solutions for...
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451 CAOS Links 2011.01.25
VMware grows 41%. Evidence of Java infringement disputed. And more. Follow 451 CAOS Links live @caostheory on Twitter and Identi.ca, and daily at Paper.li/caostheory “Tracking the open source news...
View ArticleThe Big Mid-April Conference for MySQLers
David Stokes mentioned yesterday that the mid-April Orlando Florida “Collaborate 11″ conference has many MySQL-related sessions. I (Peter Gulutzan) emphasize these session titles, presenters, and what...
View ArticleWelcome new Oracle ACE’s
I am pleased to announce that the Oracle ACE program has two new MySQL inductees. These people actively contribute to the MySQL community via a varied means in an unbiased and non commercial way....
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Yet Again On Subqueries
…with a bit of strategic thinking They come back, every now and then. Subqueries are far from being perfect at MySQL and they can give you some serious headaches. Skilled MySQL developers know it...
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Tungsten Replicator Overview Webinar
On Thursday January 27th at 10am PST I will doing a webinar on Tungsten Replicator together with my colleague Giuseppe Maxia. The title is "What MySQL Replication Cannot Do. And How to Get Around...
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Speaking at the MySQL UC...
I will be speaking at the MySQL Conference & Expo in April (The conference is on April 11 - 14 see more info here: http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2011). The subject for my speach is Large datasets in...
View ArticleHow to select random rows in MySQL
The easiest way to generate random rows in MySQL is to use the ORDER BY RAND() clause. SELECT col1 FROM tbl ORDER BY RAND LIMIT 10; This can work fine for small tables. However, for big table, it will...
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Modeling InnoDB Scalability on Multi-Core Servers
Matt Keep’s blog post on InnoDB-vs-MyISAM benchmarks that Oracle recently published prompted me to do some mathematical modeling of InnoDB’s scalability as the number of cores in the server increases....
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