MySQL Performance: Call for Workload Scenarios
Just in case you've missed my initial post last week (there were some problems on the Planet MySQL site, and it did not appear correctly).. I'm looking for Test Scenarios to extend our Benchmark...
View ArticleFacebook Tech Talk: MySQL at Scale
In case you haven’t seen it, the Facebook team held a Tech Talk on Monday focusing on MySQL and HBase at Scale. You can view the recording here. Facebook relies on MySQL for it users database, handling...
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Which Linux distribution for a MySQL database server? A specific point of view.
One of the more common questions I get asked is which Linux distribution I would use for a MySQL database server. Bearing the responsibility for someone else’s success means I should advise something...
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Collaborate 12 — Mandalay Bay Las Vegas
Keith Larson and I will be presenting MySQL for Oracle DBAs or How to Speak MySQL for beginners at Collaborate 12 in April at the Mandalay Bay hotel in Las Vegas. PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
View ArticleLog Buffer #249, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Why did you start blogging? If you haven’t why aren’t you blogging? In either case, the answer can be as short or long as you wish, but if you are reading this, this means that you are interested in...
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451 CAOS Links 2011.12.09
Funding for BlazeMeter and Digital Reasoning. Red Hat goes unstructured. And more. # BlazeMeter announced $1.2m in Series A funding and launched the a cloud service for load and performance testing. #...
View ArticleOurSQL Episode 69: Replication Secret Agent
In this episode we talk about the MySQL Master High Availability Agent, aka MHA. News There will be a "MySQL and Friends" devroom at FOSDEM 2012. The dev room is scheduled for Sunday 5th February 2012,...
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MySQL Cluster to MySQL Server Part 1
Recently I was working on a MySQL Cluster that is replicated to a MySQL server. I will create a few blog posts to show how all of this can be done. This is of course not the only way to do this.. Any...
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Congrats to three more MySQL Oracle ACE members...
It is truly amazing the amount of knowledge and talent that work with and support MySQL and the MySQL community. Thanks to all of you.Over the last month the MySQL ACE list has grown even more: George...
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Dealing with Assertion failure in file fut0lst.ic : addr.page == FIL_NULL ||...
I recently wrote an article on dealing with an assertion failure in log/log0recv.c, specifically !page || (ibool)!!page_is_comp(page) == dict_table_is_comp(index->table). I mention it because this...
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Still blogging after all these years
Or, better say, I have not blogged for so long…What happened? Well, it has been a crazy year, probably the busiest year in my whole working life.When you are in your late twenties/early thirties, you...
View ArticleAutomated installer creation
On the download page you will find the executable for each SVN commit in the HeidiSQL repository. The executables are processed in conjunction with a SVN post commit hook. I just extended this process...
View ArticleMidPoint of a LineString
CREATE FUNCTION MidPoint(ls LINESTRING) RETURNS POINT DETERMINISTIC BEGIN DECLARE len double; DECLARE workLength double DEFAULT 0; DECLARE workPoint int DEFAULT 1; DECLARE point0 POINT; DECLARE point1...
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Linux Journal Readers Choice Award for Best Database — MySQL
MySQL is the 2011 Readers Choice Award for Best Database. It may not be the most-exciting topic around, but databases make the world go round. MySQL with its dolphin mascot takes first place again this...
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How to submit a good database bug report
When an open source project becomes popular, bug reports start flocking in. This is both good and bad news for the project developers. The good news is that someone is using the product, and they are...
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MySQL Cluster to MySQL Server ... Part 2
I previously posted blog about the topic of a MySQL Cluster set up and replication to a MySQL Server. The first blog was just the installation, now lets test the cluster and get replication started....
View ArticleMySQL DATE_FORMAT function and ORDER BY
An interesting scenario that I came across today was the fact that if you use the same alias as the column name in a formatted string (using DATE_FORMAT) and you also use same alias in ORDER BY or...
View ArticleINFORMATION_SCHEMA Optimizations: still crashing my servers
[Update: need to take more breaks: now NOT crashing my servers! See clarifications below] INFORMATION_SCHEMA Optimizations are meant to make your INFORMATION_SCHEMA queries lighter and safer. For...
View ArticleScaleBase achieves 180K NO-TPM TPCC results on Amazon RDS
ScaleBase Releases Database TPC-C Performance Results Technology achieves unprecedented transaction speed for a MySQL database at a low cost Boston, Mass., December 12, 2011 – ScaleBase, Inc. today...
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MySQL in obs and openSUSE (current status)
There has been a lot going on in MySQL community and I didn’t blogged about MySQL for some time. So this is a small update regarding MySQL in openSUSE Build Service and in openSUSE in general. This...
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