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I was sincerely affected by this last MySQL post and this other very long post from Jeremy Cole.
Yes, these two guys are MySQL rock stars and they are really impressives, their involvement in the MySQL community is utter!
I don’t want to write a long long speech about my simple life…
I just want to clarify why I do what I do.
Many people have asked or wondered without asking why I do what I do (Jeremy Cole - 2013)
A few years ago Ashley Unitt asked me what I was most proud of, and now, I can make a complete answer. I’m very proud to take part of a community, MySQL has transformed my job into a passion and an incredible desire to share this
[Read more...]After taking this MySQL for Database Administrators course, you will be equipped to use all the features of MySQL to get the best out of your Web, Cloud, and embedded applications, whether you work with the command line or graphical tools such as MySQL Workbench and MySQL Enterprise Monitor, whether your application uses complex queries or the NoSQL API, and whether your preferred challenge is replicated servers or highly-tuned transactional systems.
You can take this 5-day live instructor-led course as a:
Next Friday, May 31 at 10 a.m. Pacific, I’ll present Percona’s next webinar, “SQL Query Patterns, Optimized.”
Based on my experiences solving tough SQL problems for Percona training and consulting, I’ll classify several common types of queries with which developers struggle. I’ll test several SQL solutions for each type of query objective, and show how you can use MySQL 5.6 built-in methods to analyze them for optimal query
[Read more...]Interested in an introduction to using Performance Schema to profile statement activity on your MySQL instances? Head on over to Detailed Profiling of SQL Activity in MySQL 5.6, which was recently published on the Dr.Dobbs site!
While I prepared for my Hands-On Lab about the Performance Schema at MySQL Connect last year, one of the things that occurred to me was how difficult it was quickly getting an overview of which consumers, instruments, actors, etc. are actually enabled. For the consumers things are made more complicated as the effective setting also depends on parents in the hierarchy. So my thought was: “How difficult can it be to write a stored procedure that outputs a tree of the hierarchies.” Well, simple enough in principle, but trying to be general ended up making it into a lengthy project and as it was a hobby project, it often ended up being put aside for more urgent tasks.
[Read more...]I was playing around with MySQL 5.7 this weekend and before having read the changelog, I managed to spot these two little gems.
“The server now issues a warning if an index is created that duplicates an existing index, or an error in strict SQL mode.” Bug #37520
Example Testcase:
mysql> SHOW CREATE TABLE city\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
Table: city
Create Table: CREATE TABLE `city` (
`ID` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`Name` char(35) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
`CountryCode` char(3) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
`District` char(20) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
`Population` int(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.2 for MySQL on May 18, 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories.
This release fixes number of high-priority bugs since version 2.1 became GA. It’s advised to upgrade your latest 2.1 version to 2.1.2. This release is the latest stable release in the 2.1 series.
Bugs Fixed:
This week we explain performance_schema a bit deeper. In Ear Candy, we talk about max_binlog_cache_size and At the Movies presents Max Mether of SkySQL talking about "High Availability Solutions for MySQL".
Events
DB Hangops - every other Wednesay at noon Pacific time
Upcoming MySQL events (http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/events/)
The red carpet has been laid down at this Log Buffer Edition, and you can witness and cheer the cat-walking blog posts from Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL. Every one of them is chic, elegant, sensual in its own right. Enjoy.
Oracle:
Create colored heat maps in SQL*Plus with Kyle Hailey.
Here’s a quick and dirty script to create a procedure (in the SYS schema – so be careful) to check the Hakan Factor for an object.
Connor has a good post about default null for collection parameter.
This is yet another blogpost on
[Read more...]This is the second part in a two-part series comparing Virident’s vCache to FlashCache. The first part was focused on usability and feature comparison; in this post, we’ll look at some sysbench test results.
Disclosure: The research and testing conducted for this post were sponsored by Virident.
First, some background information. All tests were conducted on Percona’s Cisco UCS C250 test machine, and both the vCache and FlashCache tests used the same 2.2TB Virident FlashMAX II as the cache storage device. EXT4 is the filesystem, and CentOS 6.4 the operating system, although the pre-release modules I received from Virident required the use of the CentOS 6.2 kernel, 2.6.32-220, so that was the kernel in use for all of the benchmarks on
[Read more...]Every so often you see something from the past and wonder “Why don’t we do that anymore?” Well, in this case it was a former co-worker wearing his MySQL Contributor shirt. 
This is Antony Curtis in one of the original MySQL Community Contributor shirt
So the MySQL Community Team had a quick meeting and the result is that we are reestablishing the tradition. So if you have a signed Oracle Contributor Agreement and have contributed to MySQL, you should have in your inbox a request for your shirt size and a shipping address. If you do not see an email and you qualify for a short, let us know (we probably have an old email on record for you). And if you are working on some [Read more...]
Thanks to Tim Callaghan for speaking Tuesday night at the Effective MySQL New York meetup on Fractal Tree Indexes : Theory and Practice (MySQL and MongoDB). There was a good turnout and a full room to learn how the TokuDB storage engine from Tokutek is changing how to handle big data in MySQL.
Also interesting is how the same technology has been applied for use in MongoDB including giving MongoDB transactions; a big change for NoSQL.
Related News: Tokutek Meets Big Data Demand With Open Source TokuDB
(This is part one of a two part series) Over the past few weeks I have been looking at a preview release of Virident’s vCache software, which is a kernel module and set of utilities designed to provide functionality similar to that of FlashCache. In particular, Virident engaged Percona to do a usability and feature-set comparison between vCache and FlashCache and also to conduct some benchmarks for the use case where the MySQL working set is significantly larger than the InnoDB buffer pool (thus leading to a lot of buffer pool disk reads) but still small enough to fit into the cache device. In this post and the next, I’ll present some of those
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We are pleased to announce RethinkDB 1.5 (The Graduate), so go download it now!
This release includes the long-awaited support for secondary indexes, a new algorithm for batched inserts that results in an ~18x performance improvement, support for soft durability (don't worry -- off by default), and over 180 bug fixes, features, and enhancements.
Upgrading to 1.5? Make sure to migrate your data before upgrading to RethinkDB 1.5. →
MySQL has two great features which historical haven't played well together:
One common optimization we do to reduce IOP consumption on database servers is to add additional columns to indexes in order to allow more queries to be index-only. However, sometimes we have these large TEXT fields in order to allow for larger content -- even if the content is normally very small.
For example:
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I finally posted a copy of the slides from my Percona Live presentation, “Creating a Benchmarking Infrastructure that Just Works”. The PDF is available via this link.
The content comes from my personal experiences over many years benchmarking and testing databases, usually focusing on performance. It was an opportunity to see how far my personal benchmark infrastructure has evolved, but even better has inspired me to improve it in several areas.
I never had a chance to to my own post-conference wrap-up regarding the Percona Live show. While waiting for my flight home at SFO airport I concluded that
[Read more...]mysql> SELECT CONCAT(T.TABLE_SCHEMA,'.',T.TABLE_NAME) AS TABLE_NAME,[Read more...]
-> P.PARTITION_NAME AS PART,IBT.SPACE,IBD.PATH,T.DATA_FREE AS T_DATA_FREE,
-> P.DATA_FREE AS P_DATA_FREE FROM
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Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.1 on May 15th 2013. Downloads are available from our download site here and Percona Software Repositories.
Percona XtraBackup enables backups without blocking user queries, making it ideal for companies with large data sets and mission-critical applications that cannot tolerate long periods of downtime. Offered free as an open source solution,
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