MySQL Workbench 5.2.27 GA Available
We’re proud to announce the next release of MySQL Workbench, version 5.2.27. This is the second maintenance release for 5.2 GA (Generally Available). This maintenance release does not introduce any new...
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Mårten Mickos strikes back
Mårten Mickos, the CEO of Eucalyptus and former CEO of MySQL AB, will be back on stage as the closing keynoter on September 19th at MySQL Sunday, one of the community events at the start of Oracle...
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MySQL: Kill sleeping connections
Platform: MySQL 5.x Most of the time it would be handy to have a native MySQL script which would allow one to kill the sleeping connections which are in sleep state for more than 180 sec.. On the...
View ArticleTranslation of Summary of Part 3 of "Methods for searching errors in SQL...
Not much new this time: just summary of part 3 published and fixed mistake in chapter 10 (thanks, Shane!). Summary. In the third part we discussed methods of application debugging in cases when query...
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Pen and paper as a DBA tool
“Hey DBA! Remember that change you made for my group four or five months ago? Well, we were waiting for things to get better but they have not. Can you change it back ASAP?!?” I know several of you...
View ArticleResolve many-to-many relations a bit different with MySQL
In database modeling, a m:n relationship is usually resolved by an additional table. But what if this relation is used only for archiving and the number of links in the resulting table is not too high?...
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Workbench called me a dummy!
Seriously, it did. Sorta. I use Workbench for my daily work, and it’s a great tool. If you haven’t tried the 5.2 release yet, you should. While performing some maintenance, I happened to issue a...
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Open Query turns 3!
Open Query is now three years old! We initially started with consulting and training services, and extended this with our proactive subscriptions that also offers system administration and monitoring....
View ArticleSphinx & MySQL: facts and misconceptions
Sphinx search is a full text search engine, commonly used with MySQL. There are some misconceptions about Sphinx and its usage. Following is a list of some of Sphinx’ properties, hoping to answer some...
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İstanbul 2010 Monty Program Ab Firma Toplantısı ve Konferans
(English version) Herhalde bildiğiniz gibi, biz tamamen sanal şirketiz, yani ana merkez gib bir şeyimiz yok. Hepimiz evinden çalışıyor ve biz sadece bir ya da iki kez yılda gerçek hayatta buluşuyorus....
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Oracle's MySQL - What's New? Live event in Milan on Sept, 28
Join us at this live event in Milan to better understand what’s new with MySQL. You will learn more about the current and future state of MySQL, now part of the Oracle family of products. We will also...
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Cluster - spins/contentions and thread stuck in..
I get a number of question about contentions/"stuck in..". So here comes some explanation to:ContentionThread Stuck inWhat you can do about itIn 99% of the cases the contentions written out in the out...
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Speaking at MySQL Sunday
I am speaking at MySQL Sunday. The title for my talk is Success with MySQL and I will focus on things that operations and users can do to make a MySQL deployment succeed. There are many interesting...
View ArticleLoading Tables with TokuDB 4.0
Often, the first step in evaluating and deploying a database is to load an existing dataset into the database. In the latest version, TokuDB makes use of multi-core parallelism to speed up loading...
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LucidDB has a new Logo/Mascot
At yesterdays Eigenbase Developer Meetup at SQLstream’s offices in San Francisco we arrived at a new logo for LucidDB. DynamoBI is thrilled to have supported and funded the design contest to arrive at...
View Articledbbenchmark.com – vote on next supported OS now!
So far the benchmarking script supports Linux, FreeBSD, and OSX. I’m installing virtual machines today to get ready for development on the next OS that the community wants to have supported. Vote today...
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How long Innodb Shutdown may take
How long it may take MySQL with Innodb tables to shut down ? It can be quite a while. In default configuration innodb_fast_shutdown=ON the main job Innodb has to do to complete shutdown is flushing...
View Articledbbenchmark.com – automated installer now available
As previously mentioned, Darren Cassar has been working on a new automated installer for the DBbenchmark program. It’s now available for download: click here. All you need to do is save it to the...
View ArticleReplication and “the lost binlog”
Unless you set sync_binlog = 1, a system crash on the master will likely fail any slave with an “Client requested master to start replication from impossible position” error. Generally, this kind of...
View Articledbbenchmark.com – configuring OpenBSD for MySQL benchmarking
Here are some quick commands for installing the proper packages and requirements for the MySQL dbbenchmark program. export PKG_PATH="ftp://openbsd.mirrors.tds.net/pub/OpenBSD/4.7/packages/amd64/"...
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