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The second MySQL seminar: a summary

Once again, Geir Høydalsvik and I had the pleasure of hosting a MySQL mini-seminar in Trondheim. 25+ attendants from at least 7 different companies and a few professors from the computer science dept. at NTNU showed up on yesterdays event. I recognized many of these from the first seminar but there were some new faces as well.

This time, Mark Leith came on a visit from the UK. He gave an introduction to Performance Schema and ps_helper. ps_helper is a really nice tool to make sense of the overwhelming amount of data collected by PS. He also gave a very convincing demo of MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM). More than a few attendants now plan to give MEM a try in their environment. You can too - there's a 30 day trial, which should be more than enough to decide if you need it …

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[Plus] readers choice 2012 : It’s time to vote!

Oh yes, 2012 was an incredible year for the MySQL Community!
That’s why I would like to change the rules this year and I would like to offer you a new survey for this [Plus] reader’s choice 2012.

Community users, bloggers and events made the whole community last year, tell us how you used this community?
It will only take 5 minutes of your precious time, votes will be closed Jan. 31.

Vote for what you used! (with your heart, again…)

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More on measuring IO latency

To follow on to my earlier links to Brendan Gregg’s blog posts on measuring I/O latency, there is a third one discussing DTrace, and then a very detailed response from Mark Leith showing how to do it with the PERFORMANCE_SCHEMA in MySQL 5.5.

Related posts:

  1. Disk latency versus filesystem latency
  2. Measuring the popularity of the Percona MySQL build
  3. Thoughts on the new …
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