The groundhogs disagree on whether or not winter will last another six weeks. Either way, we will be enjoying the slightly warmer weather of Southern California at the end of the month.

We are exhibiting at the 13th annual Southern California Linux Expo on February 20 and 21 in Los Angeles. Scale13x is a great opportunity to learn from industry specialists including Monty Taylor from HP, Ruth Suehle from Red Hat and Brendan Gregg from Netflix.

Enter promo code VIVID to receive a 40% discount on registration, and be sure to hear Baron Schwartz speak on building a time-series database in MySQL. He is presenting Friday, February 20 and …

I will be presenting MySQL Fabric to the Triangle MySQL User Group in Raleigh on February 11th and then I will be speaking the next day at Percona University. Part of my first talk will have a live demo. Most presenters dread live demos as anything that can go wrong usually does go wrong and in very spectacular fashion to ensure humiliation, disgrace, and well deserved scorn.

To add to the pressure is a new laptop that is so far reluctant to perform well during the first two presentations of this year. Hopefully third presentation is a charm.

So how do you start with Fabric? First, download the MySQL Utilities. I am using the 1.5.2 version (1.6 Alpha is also …

This article will explain the installation and usage of mytop, a handy tool for live monitoring of MySQL queries. Also looking into various operations that a user can perform while monitoring the queries on mytop.

We are glad to announce the release of the updated database tools for Oracle and MySQL. Each tool includes a variety of specific improvements, that were developed and implemented to make your experience with any of the applications yet more productive and comfortable.

We are glad to announce the release of the updated database tools for Oracle and MySQL. Each tool includes a variety of specific improvements, that were developed and implemented to make your experience with any of the applications yet more productive and comfortable.

I stopped working on MySQL at Sun Microsystems in late 2009 (after a lengthy period of garden leave), to join Monty Program Ab, and was greatly anticipating a MariaDB release that we could take to market. The first GA release of MariaDB came out February 1 2010 – MariaDB 5.1.42. Today is MariaDB Server’s 5th birthday!

We didn’t even want to call it GA back then — we referred to it as a “stable” release. We didn’t make our own builds because we figured source code tarballs were good enough; so builds were made and hosted at OurDelta. It took some months (around August 2010) when we moved release notes to the Knowledgebase (which you’ll notice has moved from kb.askmonty.org to its current location) from the old front page wiki …

Podcasts General

When we went monthly at the end of 2014, did you worry that we would forget our blooper show? This month's podcast is a blooper reel just for you - about 35 minutes of put-a-smile-on-your-face fun with insight as to how things work - or don't work - behind-the-scenes.

I hope your 2015 is going well!

Podcasts General

When we went monthly at the end of 2014, did you worry that we would forget our blooper show? This month's podcast is a blooper reel just for you - about 35 minutes of put-a-smile-on-your-face fun with insight as to how things work - or don't work - behind-the-scenes.

I hope your 2015 is going well!

We have been looking at the WebScaleSQL project with great excitement. As with any new enhancements to the MySQL world, we need to test extensively to ensure we can give PSCE customers the best advice possible. Since this project is source only, we decided to add WebScaleSQL builds to our repo, so we could examine the changes being introduced by all the different collaborators.

So what is WebscaleSQL?

WebScaleSQL is a collaboration among engineers from several companies that face the same challenges in deploying MySQL at scale, and seek greater performance from a database technology tailored for their needs.

— WebScaleSQL, Frequently Asked Questions

What makes this project so special, is the level of collaboration between some of the most …

A customer asked whether we they could have 10 or more masters consolidate all the data into a single central slave. After getting a bit more information from them and seeing the application functionality, it was clear that MySQL Labs 5.7.5 Multi Source Replication could be a good candidate. Why?:
– Each master is independent from the rest of the masters.
– One-way traffic: there is only one way to update a row, and that’s from the master.
– All the masters use the same schema and table, but no single master will ever need to, nor be able to update a row from another master.
– PK determined via app & master env.

Multisource replication is still in http://labs.mysql.com, but here’s what I did to test it out.

First, I read:
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