Thanks to everyone who came. Definitely check out the recording below!

Heyo everybody!

Coming up this Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013 at 12:00pm pacific (19:00 GMT) is another exciting #DBHangOps. Join the google hangout to discuss:

• MySQL Utilities from Chuck Bell!
• How do you constrain over-consumption of resources by competing applications?
• Network vs. Local storage for MySQL
  • How do you use this for HA? Do you use DRBD or floating VIPs?
• Secure connections to MySQL (using SSL) (requested by Daniel)
  • Do you have experience with this? What’s the performance impact?
• PCI Certification with MySQL — what changed for you?
• MySQL-isms!
  • (From Gerry) Sub SELECTs — Why aren’t these as mature as other databases?
  …

And that’s a wrap! Check out the recording:

Hello!

Coming up this Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 at 12:00pm pacific (19:00 GMT) come and join #DBHangOps to discuss:

• Data warehousing in MySQL
  • Shipping large tables from production to your Data warehouse
  • Do you use Federated engine?
  • What other solutions do you use?
• Answer some questions about MySQL-isms (requested by Tim Callaghan)
  • Why does MySQL have FRM files instead of storing them in a data dictionary table?
  • Why doesn’t InnoDB support other page sizes?
  • Why do we store data in a master.info file?
• What are you excited to see at MySQLConnect?

As always, take …

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Hey there everybody!

Coming up this Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 at 12:00pm pacific (19:00 GMT) take part in #DBHangOps to discuss:

• Data Dictionary Corruption
  • What is it?
  • How does it happen?
  • How did you fix it?
  • What about FRM file corruption?
• MySQL Utilities (requested by Sheeri Cabral!)
  • mysqlfrm — http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/mysqlfrm.html
    • Read about it at Chuck Bell’s blog http://drcharlesbell.blogspot.com/2013/04/mysql-utilities-new-frm-reader-utility.html
    …

Hey all!

Coming up this Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 at 12:00pm pacific (19:00 GMT) join in to talk about:

• Gerry from Tokutek to talk about B-Tree indexes in InnoDB and fractal indexes TokuDB!
• Schema Versioning
  • How do you manage schema versions in your development pipeline?
  • How are your schema changes deployed? Is it automated?
  • Some automated schema management tools:
    • South — http://south.aeracode.org/ — a DJango (python) friendly migration tool
    • Flyway — http://flywaydb.org/ — A database migration framework for java
    • Liquibase — …

And all set. Check out the recording:

Hello everybody!

Coming up this Wednesday, July 23rd, 2013 at 12:00pm pacific (19:00 GMT) join in to hear:

• Brandon Johnson from Mozilla talk about an issue he recently worked through with XtraBackup and the process he took to identify and resolve the issues.

And also take part in discussion around:

• How do you apply production schema changes?
  • Do you use pt-online-schema-change?
    • Issues to watch out for
  • Just run the alter!
  • Pull from a pool and apply

Make sure to follow the #DBHangops twitter search, the DBHangops Twitter Feed, or this blog …

All set, here’s the recording!

Hey there everyone!

Another informative and fun-filled #DBHangOps coming up this Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 at 12:00pm pacific (19:00 GMT). Join the discussion and contribute your experience on the following topics!

• Plugins for MySQL
  • Which do you use?
  • Are there plugins that you want?
• Kernel Parameters in Linux for MySQL, specifically:
  • Linux VM settings
  • Transparent Huge Pages
• InnoDB buffer pool size and settings
  • What works in your environment and why?
• And If there’s time, information about the TokuDB storage engine in …

#DBHangOps for 6/26/13 is all done! Check out the recording below:

Hey everybody!

#DBHangOps is back this week at a slightly earlier time this Wednesday, June 26th, 2013 at 11:00am paciifc (18:00 GMT) . We’ll have special guest Shlomi Noach talking about the open source tools he’s developed to improve a DBA’s day-to-day work.

Be sure to check out the #DBHangops twitter search, the DBHangops Twitter Feed, or this blog post to get a link for the google hangout on Wednesday!

Thanks and see all of you there!

Annnd all set! Check out the recording for the topics below:

Hello everyone!

We missed out on the last meeting time for #DBHangOps due to some conflicts, but we’re looking to come back strong this Wednesday, June 12th 2013 at 12:00pm pacific (19:00 GMT). Come join the discussion and contribute your experience on:

• Upgrading to MySQL 5.6
  • Any issues or gotchas?
• MySQL Python Utilities
  • How do you use them?
• MySQL patches
  • Patches you use
  • Patches you want
• Interesting or valuable Linux kernel settings

Be sure to check out the #DBHangops twitter search, the DBHangops Twitter …

Here’s the recording!

Heyo!

Now that we’ve gone through the Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo review and had an amazing turnout to talk about it, it’s time to open up the discussion around things that DBAs want to talk about and need to be conscientious of. Join us on Wednesday at 12:00pm PDT (19:00 GMT) to take part in the discussion and share your knowledge and experience with the following topics:

• Filesystems and MySQL — Which do you use and why?
  • Do you handle I/O alignment? How do you do it?
  • Scheduler changes?
• Nagios checks! — Any new checks you’ve added recently?
• The worst settings in MySQL that you always change
• What are the most important variables to you, and what do you set them to?
• What will be important variables in 5.6 that …

Hey everybody!

The Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo just wrapped up last week and we’re looking to get some conference in review talk from everyone! Talk about your favorite sessions, new things you learned, and your overall opinion of the conference!

Hop online Wednesday at 12:00pm PDT (19:00 GMT) to join the discussion and share your experience from the 2013 Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo.

Be sure to watch this twitter search or this blog post get a link for the google hangout tomorrow!

Some talks that were specifically called out:

• Monitoring MySQL with OpenTSDB by Geoffrey Anderson
• …