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A Tale of Two Conferences
Last week was a bumper week in London for MySQL users, DBAs & developers. We had the Oracle MySQL Developer Day and Percona Live London 2011. Both events were sold out, bringing in a good 300+...
View ArticleMy New Job at Oracle: Working on MySQL Connector/Python
After more than 6 years doing MySQL Support for MySQL AB, Sun Microsystems, and Oracle, it’s time for a change. Time to get back to development! As of November 2011 I’ll be working full-time on MySQL...
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Using MySQL, Perl and jQuery to Auto-Populate a Form Field on a Web Page
If you have ever built a form on a web page, you might have used a drop-down menu to display the choices available for a particular field. With a drop-down menu, you restrict the choices a user may...
View Articlebash completion for mysql-test-run
For many years I was using tcsh, with lots of useful customizations, that were created during these years. Now I have bash on my laptop and slowly adding what I’ve got used to. Yesterday I’ve created...
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Words about PLUK2011
Percona Live London 2011 is over and it was a wonderfull event. Thanks to Percona for this quality event in Europe. And thanks to all speakers for their outstanding performances. I just want to share...
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MySQL Enterprise Backup Part I
This is the first in a series of postings on the MySQL Enterprise tools. I know most of you reading are dedicated community server users but you may have wondered ‘What do you get when you buy MySQL...
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CAOS Theory Podcast 2011.10.28
Topics for this podcast: *Opscode Chef extends to Windows for more enterprise devops *Black Duck continues growth, gains new funding *Cloudant expands NoSQL database focus, customers *New open source...
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What's New in CFEngine 3: Making System Administration Even More Powerful
CFEngine is both the oldest and the newest of the popular tools for automating site administration. Mark Burgess invented it as a free software project in 1993, and years later, as deployments in the...
View ArticleGalera 1.0 is here, Severalnines support, more to come
There are moments in history that become like signpost that everyone remembers the rest of their lives. Like where were you when you heard the news that JFK had been shot, or those 9/11 planes hit the...
View ArticleOurSQL Episode 63: Snowing Already?
This week, Gerry Narvaja guest hosts and we talk about star and snowflake schemas, as a follow-up to last week's podcast on Data Warehousing 101. News FOSDEM has a call for papers open until Sunday,...
View ArticleGetting a List of Users From the MySQL General Log
From time to time, organizations want to know if there are any users that are not used. For clients using MySQL 5.1 and up, that can handle a 1% overhead for general logging, we will enable the...
View ArticleWhat a Hosting Provider did Today
I found Dennis the Menace, he now has a job as system administrator for a hosting company. Scenario: client has a problem with a server becoming unavailable (cause unknown) and has it restarted. MySQL...
View ArticleSpotlight On: MySQL & Oracle GoldenGate
A few weeks ago we announced New MySQL Enterprise Oracle Certifications making it easier and faster for Oracle customers to deploy & manage MySQL within their existing environment. As we regularly...
View ArticleRPM “multiple packages” oddity, fixed
I deal with all shipes and sizes, and distributions, of Linux. Each Linux distribution has quirks. Particularly with package management. There are some people who are religious about RPM (Redhat,...
View ArticleThanks Percona and attendees for a great Percona Live UK 2011
Many people have asked me what do I think was the best thing about Percona Live UK. I always answered: that it happened in the first place! This was the first time we had such a large and high-quality...
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Benchmarking Tungsten Parallel Replication
Tungsten parallel apply on slaves, or parallel replication for short, has been available for about a year. Until recently we did not have many formal benchmarks of its performance. Fortunately the...
View ArticlePercona Training: Dublin, San Diego, NYC, and WDC
If you have been waiting for Percona’s highly rated MySQL courses to be taught near you, your wait is over. We will be holding our Developer, DBA, InnoDB, and Operations training in the following...
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Don't forget to mysql_upgrade
I recently upgraded MySQL to the DMR release of 5.6.3. Available here :http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.6.html#downloads I was reminded of a some questions about mysql_upgrade I have gotten...
View ArticleMySQL 101 - Replication
So far we've looked at many aspects of MySQL, not in any great depth, but hopefully with enough information to get you started and whet your appetite for more. Now we start to look into areas that...
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Self throttling MySQL queries
Recap on the problem: A query takes a long time to complete. During this time it makes for a lot of I/O. Query's I/O overloads the db, making for other queries run slow. I introduce the notion of...
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