You probably ask yourself sometimes how you can boost MySQL indexes when you are working with BIG databases/tables. Really the solution is here for a long time already. You can use SSD disks (also known as flash disks). These disks are not that big that traditional SATA hard drives but they provide a superior performance. If your database is rather big to be placed on SSD disk you can still

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NoSQL or Traditional Database: From an APM Perspective There Isn’t Really Much Difference

Author: Michael Kopp.

If your application is executing more statements or downloading more data than is necessary, no amount of backend tuning will have your site running at the highest level of

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MySQL performance can be increased in two ways, software optimization and hardware upgrades. While the previous articles have covered much of the software side of performance optimization, we are now going to focus on the hardware aspect.

Does hardware help boost performance?

Like software optimization, hardware upgrades for MySQL systems are based upon set goals for an organisation. The question is not what hardware would work best; rather a question of what hardware will help the organisation achieve an X goal. The answer is yes, hardware does boost performance, but there are a few caveats to this. There are cases such as organizations’ demands are fulfilled even with crappy hardware, and all  [Read more...]

MySQL has two confusingly identical by the first look variables myisam_sort_buffer_size and sort_buffer_size. Thing is that those two confusingly similar variables has absolutely different meanings.

sort_buffer_size is a per-connection variable and do not belongs to any specific storage engine. It doesn’t matter do you use MyISAM or InnoDB – MySQL will allocate sort_buffer_size for every sort (required most of the times for ORDER BY and GROUP BY queries) so increasing it’s value might help speeding up those queries however I would not recommend to change it from the default value unless you are absolutely sure about all the drawbacks. Value for

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“I’ve installed MySQL and it doesn’t work fast enough for me”. MySQL server is heart of database driven application (if it uses MySQL as database of course!) and any slowness related to running queries is affecting all application layers.

MySQL server tuning and query slowness hunting are always step by step process and without knowing all the data (SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES, SHOW GLOBAL STATUS, SHOW TABLE STATUS LIKE ‘tablename’, EXPLAIN details for slow query is just some of the required information) it would be generally a blind guess. But there are still few things which is related to newly installed MySQL server.

If you are using stock MySQL you might need to check memory pool size which MySQL used to load index data to avoid slow IO

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3 ways your MySQL migration project can shake you up

Once a development or operations team gets over the hurdle of open-source, and start to feel comfortable with the way software works outside of the enterprise world, they will likely start to settle in and feel comfortable.  Best not to get too cushy though for there are more surprises hiding around the corner.  Here are a few of the biggest ones.

1. Replication Is Not Perfect

Yes, you've installed MySQL, setup a slave, and got it replicating properly.  You check the slave and it's 0 seconds behind the master.  What's more you monitor the error log file, and have a check in place to alert you if something happens there.  Job completed, good job!

Not so fast.  Unfortunately this is not the end of the story.  Many MySQL replication slaves are not consistent with their masters, but they

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MySQL databases are great work horses of the internet.  They back tons of modern websites, from blogs and checkout carts, to huge sites like Facebook.  But these technologies don't run themselves.  When you're faced with a system that is slowing down, you'll need the right tools to diagnose and troubleshoot the problem.  MySQL has a huge community following and that means scores of great tools for your toolbox. Here are 7 ways to troubleshoot MySQL.

1. Use innotop

Innotop is a great tool for MySQL which despite the name monitors MySQL generally as well as InnoDB usage.  It's fairly easy to install, just download the perl script. Be sure to include a [client] section to your local users .my.cnf file (you have one don't you?).  Inside that section, place one line with "user=xyz" and one line with "password=abc".

If you're concerned that

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There are a lot of scalability challenges we see with clients over and over. The list could easily include 20, 50 or even 100 items, but we shortened it down to the biggest five issues we see.

1. Tune those queries

By far the biggest bang for your buck is query optimization. Queries can be functionally correct and meet business requirements without being stress tested for high traffic and high load. This is why we often see clients with growing pains, and scalability challenges as their site becomes more popular. This also makes sense. It wouldn't necessarily be a good use of time to tune a query for some page off in a remote corner of your site, that didn't receive

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 Mark Callaghan at facebook tested the test release of MySQL 5.6.3 and he has found some performance improvement with InoDB feature. Read below...

Mark tried two of the previews for MySQL 5.6.3 at http://labs.mysql.com/. His first attempt with the multi-threaded slave preview was not successful. Parallel apply on the slave is serial when the master does not also run 5.6.3. He said (I hope this changes as a typical upgrade is first done on the slave.)

He was more successful with the InnoDB features preview. A few more mutex contention bottlenecks were removed in it and he wanted to compare the peak row update rate between it and MySQL 5.1.52. he



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Another performance problem found by PoorMansProfiler
Innam rana said in his blog post on innodb blog:



InnoDB has an internal file system management module that primarily manages the space in the data files. One of the pain points was the coarse level of locking used when a data file has to be extended. More about this issue can be found here. In the latest labs release we have fixed this problem.
When we need to extend a data file inside InnoDB we write zero filled pages synchronously to the file. The user thread which is extending the data file





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There are two sections for rows in the page format for InnoDB compressed tables. The compressed section has one or more rows and must be decompressed to access individual rows. The modification log has uncompressed rows and rows can be accessed without decompressing. The modification log is used to avoid decompressing and then possibly recompressing the compressed section on every row change. The buffer pool also has separate uncompressed copies of some pages so that every row read does not require a page decompression.

I want to understand when a page must be decompressed or recompressed. This is definitely an incomplete list.

• A page is decompressed when a row is read and the uncompressed version of the page is not in the

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Introduction:

MySQL Cluster is a write-scalable, real-time, ACID-compliant transactional database, combining 99.999% availability with the low TCO of open source. Designed around a distributed, multi-master architecture with no single point of failure, MySQL Cluster scales horizontally on commodity hardware to serve read and write intensive workloads, accessed via SQL and NoSQL interfaces.

MySQL Cluster's real-time design delivers predictable, millisecond response times with the ability to service millions of operations per second. Support for in-memory and disk-based data, automatic data partitioning (sharding) with load balancing and the ability to add nodes to a running cluster with zero downtime allows linear database scalability to handle the most unpredictable web-based workloads.







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If the table has a multiple-column index, any leftmost prefix of the index can be used by the optimizer to find rows. For example, if you have a three-column index on (col1, col2, col3), you have indexed search capabilities on (col1), (col1, col2), and (col1, col2, col3). MySQL cannot use an index if the columns do not form a leftmost prefix of the index. Suppose that you have the SELECT statements shown here: SELECT * FROM tbl_name WHERE col1=val1;SELECT * FROM tbl_name WHERE col1=val1 AND col2=val2;
SELECT * FROM tbl_name WHERE col2=val2;SELECT * FROM tbl_name WHERE col2=val2 AND col3=val3;If an index exists on (col1, col2, col3), only the first two queries use the index.
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Using Net::HandlerSocket, here are some fun numbers for a single connection (open & close). When connecting to “localhost”, here’s the strace: open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY) = 3 fcntl(3, F_GETFD) = 0 fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=187, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2b909a1a3000 read(3, "# Do not remove the following [...]

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