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Global Transaction Identifiers Feature Preview
The Case for Global Transaction Identifiers"Global Transaction Identifiers" is a feature that has been requested every now and then. And it is not so much about what it actually is, but rather about...
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Got open source cloud storage? Red Hat buys Gluster
Red Hat’s $136m acquisition of open source storage vendor Gluster marks Red Hat’s biggest buy since JBoss and starts the fourth quarter with a very intersting deal. The acquisition is definitely good...
View ArticleWebinar: NoSQL, NewSQL, Hadoop and the future of Big Data management
Join me for a webinar where I discuss how the recent changes and trends in big data management effect the enterprise. This event is sponsored by Red Rock and RockSolid.Overview: It is an exciting and...
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ruby mysql2 gem and MySQL 5.5 client library failure
My team was provisioning a ruby on rails application on a new Operating System with different ruby and client libraries and we came across a strange bug.Intermittently we were seeing the failures in...
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Steve Jobs, you will be missed. Greatly.
I remember my first computer. It was a TI-99/4A. I bought it back in 1982 (I think), and it cost around $300. The entire computer fit inside what looked like a really thick keyboard. It had a slot on...
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Last day of Oracle Open World ends with six sessions
This has been an amazing week in San Francisco with 45,000 new friends. The MySQL tracks have been warmly received by both the MySQL core in attendance and the Oracle family with its many branches. A...
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Very Encouraging
The last day of #OOW is here and MySQL events continue. Even after the big Sting concert last night. I am now sitting in a MySQL Crash Course talk given by Alexander Nozdrin and Dmitry Lenev. The room...
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Oracle's NoSQL
Oracle's turn-about announcement of a NoSQL product wasn't really surprising. When Oracle spends time and effort putting down a technology, you can bet that its secretly impressed, and trying to...
View ArticleSurge 2011 slides, recap
This year’s Surge conference was a great sophomore event to follow up last year’s inaugural conference. A lot of very smart people were there, and the hallway track was great. I presented on three...
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It's a WRAP with NetApp!
MySQL @ #OOW11 is complete and we finished off with a very interactive session with Karthikeyan from NetApp. This was the most interactive session I had seen @ #OOW this year.Some topics covered...
View ArticleWhen systems scale better than linearly
I’ve been seeing a few occasions where Neil J. Gunther’s Universal Scalability Law doesn’t seem to model all of the important factors in a system as it scales. Models are only models, and they’re not...
View ArticleWhen Does InnoDB Update Table Statistics? (And When It Can Bite)
An InnoDB table statistics is used for JOIN optimizations and helping the MySQL optimizer choose the appropriate index for a query. If a table’s statistics or index cardinality becomes outdated, you...
View ArticleMySQL Cluster 7.2 (DMR2): NoSQL, Key/Value, Memcached
70x Higher Performance, Cross Data Center Scalability and New NoSQL Interface Its been an exciting week for all involved with MySQL Cluster, with the announcement of the second Development Milestone...
View ArticleLog Buffer #241, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
World has opened up in San Fransisco with the database bangs. MySQL and Oracle databases have scintillated the hearts of developers, DBAs, technology aficionados, and the mere spectators. That and...
View ArticleUnderstanding Indexing – NY Effective MySQL Meetup
At next week’s NY Effective MySQL Meetup, I will give a talk: “Understanding Indexing: Three rules on making indexes around queries to provide good performance.” The meetup is 7 pm Tuesday, October...
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451 CAOS Links 2011.10.07
OpenStack Foundation. New Pentaho CEO. And more. # Rackspace announced its intention to form an independent OpenStack Foundation. # HP has chosen Ubuntu as the lead host and guest operating system for...
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Keep your MySQL backend online no matter what + TGIF Contest!
On Oct. 25th I will be presenting my conference session “Keep your MySQL backend online no matter what” at the Percona Live London Conference. Considering their is a variety of highly knowledgeable...
View ArticleWhere’s the Updated MySQL Source Code on Launchpad?
I know I’m not the only one to have noticed that all MySQL branches on Launchpad have not been accessible since September 10th, 2011, nearly 1 month. Just visit here:...
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mysqlnd_qc and Symfony2
Previously I was writing about combining Symfony2 and mysqlnd to get more statistics on what is going on below the surface in the database communication when using a Symfony2 application via the...
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Multiple MySQL instances on Fusion-io ioDrive
It is known that MySQL due internal limitations is not able to utilize all CPU and IO resources available on modern hardware. Idea is to run multiple instances of MySQL to gain better performance on...
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