How to implement MySQL Sharding
This is the first in a three part series of blogs in which I’ll try to explain how to take an existing application and shard it. Database Sharding has proven itself a very successful strategy for...
View ArticleMariaDB Crash Course
Ben Forta, the author of MySQL Crash Course and Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, has written what I believe is the first MariaDB-specific book: MariaDB Crash Course. I just received word from Ben...
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Monitoring Your MySQL Backup
In California we are always thinking about backups. Living near an earthquake fault line makes this necessary. For me, it is the Hayward Fault (it runs from goal post to goal post in University of...
View ArticleDiagnosing and Fixing MySQL Replication + Early Bird Registration Extended!
Percona is happy to announce that our conference schedule is up online! We are thrilled to be able to offer such a wide variety of talks from so many MySQL experts. Come see Devananda van der Veen a...
View ArticleThe new XAMPP 1.7.7 for Windows, Linux, and Solaris is out!
It took nearly eight months to get this new version of XAMPP released. A long time, but somehow this year it was harder than usual. Alone in the last four weeks, there were two new versions of Apache,...
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Cloud DaaS Managed Service Fuels NewSQL Market
As public clouds are commoditized, the public cloud vendors are increasingly moving to higher margin and stickier managed services. In the early days of the public cloud, renting compute and storage...
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ESXi DELL servers and Intel-VT
Have you ever tried to power on a new ESXi guest host and come across an error message saying "The host is VT-capable, but VT is disabled. VT might be disabled if it has been disabled in the BIOS...
View ArticleThe 2 year old MariaDB
One could say that MariaDB now is 2 years old as a packaged product. The latest version, MariaDB 5.3 Beta, is the culmination of many years of hard work. We believe it contains the largest and most...
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Using MySQL to Import and Retrieve Blobs and Display as Image Files in HTML
I received a phone call from a friend of mine who had some questions about storing image files as blobs in MySQL. He wanted to design a web site that would allow someone to upload an image, and then...
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Contributor agreements, a reminder and an update
One of the many things that hasn't changed with GlassFish since the acquisition is how we welcome contributions from the community (in fact we've seen an increased number of those recently). The...
View ArticleSpeaking at Percona Live in London this October
Two of my proposals for Percona Live London on October 24-25 have been approved! Yes, I really had to propose them and get them approved like everyone else, although as I’m sure you can imagine, I had...
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Stump the Murph: ulimit, pam and linux
There is a game that a small group of friends and I have been playing since my Friendster years. It's called Stump the Murph. Basically if there is some weird problem in Linux mainly but it's in a...
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Oracle Open World MySQL Sessions
Just ten days until Oracle Open World and MySQL is going to have a big presence! “Focus on MySQL” overall schedule is available here: http://www.oracle.com/openworld/oow11-focuson-mysql-486114.pdfHere...
View ArticleSee You At The Message Systems User Conference!
I'm looking forward to the upcoming Message Systems User Conference next month in San Francisco, not only for what looks like an excellent venue, but for the great set of quality sessions on the...
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MySQl Cluster 7.2 at OOW Demo Pod
Be sure to drop by the MySQL Demo Pod while you are attending Oracle Open World. There you will see a demo of the changes in MySQL Cluster 7.2. My favorite part of this release is that you can access...
View ArticleCall for best practice: Talking to r/o slaves through a load-balancer
I am looking for people who have a bunch of r/o slaves running, and who are using a load balancer to distribute queries across them. The typical setup would be a PHP or Perl type of deployment with...
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[UPDATED] Why you should go to Percona Live (London) ?
[ UPDATED 2011-09-22 ] : For French attendees : Vous participez ou souhaitez participer à cette conférence, rejoignez le groupe de la communauté francophone pour partager autour de cet évènement For...
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MySQL Installer, once again
First an apology. I have not been blogging much lately, but I do have a reason, and I think a valid one for once (i.e. not along the lines of "I was out drinking last night" or "I was busy boiling...
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My three MySQL sessions at OOW 2011 - and much more
Oracle Open World 2011 is approaching. MySQL is very well represented.Sheeri has put together a simple table of all the MySQL sessions at OOW, which is more handy than the Oracle schedule.I will be...
View ArticleVideos from OSCon Data and OSCon 2011
There are 28 videos, all linked below, on the OSCon and OSCon data 2011 playlist that I have put online for free (with permission from the presenters and O'Reilly). O'Reilly videos are available from...
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