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18.12. Cloud2Go Services for your web development
From simple to full featured cloud capacity Cloud technologies and services increase every day. Global players like Amazon put continuously new features to their cloud and products to provide...
View ArticleSlides of my talk on B+Tree Indexes and InnoDB
The slides of my talk on B+Tree Indexes and InnoDB are now available for download. This slide was presented during Percona Live London 2011. You can download the slides from here. There are many other...
View ArticleUsing MySQL Cluster to Protect & Scale the HDFS Namenode
The MySQL Cluster product team is always interested to see new and innovative uses of the database. Last week, a team of students at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden blogged about their...
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Merry Xmas
We wish all our customers, users and partners a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year. The year of 2011 has been a terrific year for us. But first let us have a look at where we started 10 years ago. The...
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Fake O'Reilly Covers
Here are some of the fake O'Reilly book covers I mentioned in a prior post. These have been optimized for use as black & white Kindle screensaver wallpaper images. If you haven't done so...
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How to add a simple Custom Object in MONyog
MySQL is developing rapidly. And today it does not only happen along a single track but in multiple directions simultaneously. This is due to both server ‘forks‘ as well as various plugins and 3rd...
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Eventual consistency in MySQL Cluster - implementation part 2
In previous posts I described how row conflicts are detected using epochs. In this post I describe how they are handled.Row based conflict handling with NDB$EPOCHOnce a row conflict is detected, as...
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Windows server developers wanted for MySQL Runtime Team
The MySQL Runtime team is look for Windows Server developers. Windows is a very important platform for MySQL and we need good folks to help drive the product forward. Pass the word (and the URL) to...
View ArticleGet started on becoming a MySQL Database Administrator!
By taking this newly updated course, MySQL for Database Administrators,students will benefit from learning how to secure users privileges, set resource limitations, access controls, describe backup...
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Testing new builds with MySQL-Sandbox 3.0.24
MySQL::Sandbox 3.0.24 was released yesterday, with many new features. More than vanilla MySQLIf you have missed my previous announcement, here's the gist of it. MySQL Sandbox can now deal with tarballs...
View ArticleRenormalize, Encrypt, MongoDB videos online
Thanks to the extraordinary work of volunteer superstar Richard Laskey, the videos for the September, October and November Boston MySQL user group meetings are available. Whether you want to encrypt,...
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The future of commercial open source business strategies
The reason we are confident that the comparative decline in the use of the GNU GPL family of licenses and the increasing significance of complementary vendors in relation to funding for open source...
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The Mythical MySQL DBA
I’ve been getting more than my fair share of calls from recruiters of late. Even in this depressed economic climate where jobs are rarer than a cab at rush-hour, it’s heartening to know that tech...
View ArticlePercona Server 5.5.18-23.0: Now with Group Commit!
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.18-23.0 on December 19th, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.18, including...
View ArticlePercona XtraBackup 1.6.4
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 1.6.4 on 19 December, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). These release notes are (as always)...
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Inner vs Outer Joins on a Many-To-Many Relationship
Someone will probably tell me that this is an elementary-level topic, but I got some good questions regarding joins from my most recent ZCE class students, so I thought I'd put down the examples that I...
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MySQL 5.6.4 PERFORMANCE SCHEMA
New performance schema features in 5.6.4 As development of the 5.6 serie continues, a new milestone (5.6.4) is now available. The source code for mysql-trunk is on launchpad, and the MySQL 5.6...
View ArticleTop Ten for 2011
It’s almost the end of the year – that means holiday cards, shopping, cooking, parties, and the inevitable year-end top lists (including gems like this one). In the spirit of end of year list making,...
View ArticleInnoDB 5.6.4 supports databases with 4k and 8k page sizes
In the 5.6.4 release it is now possible to create an InnoDB database with 4k or 8k page sizes in addition to the original 16k page size. Previously, it could be done by recompiling the engine with a...
View ArticleInnoDB Full-Text Search is in MySQL 5.6.4
InnoDB full-text search (FTS) is finally available in MySQL 5.6.4 release. The feature has been on trial through MySQL’s summer lab release, thus we had several blogs covering the feature. In this...
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