Comment on MySQL DBA Responsibilities by Addision Philip
Among all of them, MySQL database maintenance and repair is the most responsible activity of a database administrator.PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View Articlemysqlnd plugins and json
Some time ago I was already writing about the power included with mysqlnd plugins and how they can they can be used transparently to help you with your requirements without changing your code. But...
View ArticleCreating chroots for fun and MySQL testing
Virtualisation is all the rage today, however there are still a few cases where good old-fashioned Unix chroot is still applicable, and testing MySQL across multiple platforms and architectures is one...
View ArticleClik here to view.
MySQL Cluster 7.1.15a is available
The binary version for MySQL Cluster 7.1.15a has now been made available at http://www.mysql.com/downloads/cluster/ (GPL version) or https://edelivery.oracle.com/ (commercial version) A description of...
View ArticleHigh Performance MySQL, Third Edition
I have just signed the contract for High Performance MySQL, Third Edition. The third edition will include major updates and new content in these areas: Recent performance and reliability advances,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Splitting a MySQL Dump File Into Smaller Files Via Perl
I was trolling the MySQL forums web site and noticed a post regarding someone who was trying to load a 50-gigabyte MySQL dump file. The author of the post had stated that the loading of the file had...
View ArticleA mysqlnd replication plugin presentation
After a short sprint for PHP 5.4 beta, which is on its way with mysqlnd as a configuration default for all three PHP MySQL extensions, we continued working on the mysqlnd replication plugin...
View ArticleJoin us at the OTN Sys Admin Day for Oracle Linux and Solaris on Sep. 22nd,...
Last week we concluded our first Oracle Technology Network Sys Admin Day in Sacramento (CA). Well, it was actually the second Sys Admin Day, but the first one that had two parallel tracks of sessions...
View ArticleSELECT UNION Results INTO OUTFILE
Here’s a quick tip I know some of us has overlooked at some point. When doing SELECT … UNION SELECT, where do you put the the INTO OUTFILE clause? On the first SELECT, on the last or somewhere else?...
View ArticleOpen Query looking for new colleagues!
My colleagues and I are looking for extra talent – is that you? What we do:help clients prevent problems (rather than being the fire department), we work on a subscription basis although we also do...
View ArticleMySQL 101 - Changing data and schema, UPDATE, ALTER
In our last episode we covered sorting, searching and grouping. We found out that using the COUNT(*) can be problematic when we have unexpected NULL data. Now we look at how to resolve data issues by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Old GUI tools repositories on Launchpad
You might remember that MySQL was aquired by Sun, which later went into Oracle (who won’t? ). As usual in such a process network infrastructure is being merged to ease managing it. Such a merge is...
View ArticleDatabase Sharding lecture on Boston MySQL Meetup
Yeah, we know it’s 6 month from now – but we’ll give a lecture titled “Database Sharding on MySQL” at the Boston MySQL Meetup. Register here.PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleBeware: Default charset for mysqldump is utf8, regardless of server default...
I ran into this issue a while ago, and was reminded of it again recently. mysqldump uses a default charset of utf8, even when the default charset of the server is set differently. Why does this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Compression Benchmarking: Size vs. Speed (I want both)
I’m creating a library of benchmarks and test suites that will run as part of a Continuous Integration (CI) process here at Tokutek. My goal is to regularly measure several aspects of our storage...
View ArticleNew Commercial Extensions for MySQL Enterprise Edition
MySQL 5.5 GA and MySQL 5.6 Development Milestone Releases have delivered many new compelling features to the MySQL users and community for testing, feedback and use. In addition, commercial customers...
View ArticleUsing MySQL as a Queue, and Free Percona Live Tickets
This week’s TGIF give-away contest is a day early, and it’s a guest post over on the Engine Yard blog: 5 subtle ways you’re using MySQL as a queue, and why it’ll bite you. Go there to read the full...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Amazon EBS mySQL, Disk Throughput and the Dual Edge of Software Raid
Amazon's EBS system is just a nice interface to a SAN subsystem, which manages the attachments of SAN LUNs. The problem with SAN when compared to Local SAS drives is latency and the shared controller,...
View ArticleMySQL no longer fully open source database
Just in case anybody missed it: http://blogs.oracle.com/MySQL/entry/new_commercial_extensions_for_mysql MySQL has long been an open source product, not an open source project…. and this really is the...
View ArticleMulti-Site, Multi-Master MySQL Databases Made Easy with Tungsten - Webinar 9/22
Cross-site databases are the next challenge facing today's MySQL-based businesses. Continuent Tungsten enables multi-master with an innovative new architecture called System of Record that avoids data...
View Article