In this post I provide some tips and advice on how to become a published auther for Oracle, MS SQL Server, and MySQL

With each release, the MySQL database brings you even better performance. To get the most from your MySQL servers, performance tuning is important. And what better route than to take the MySQL for Performance Tuning training course.

In this four-day instructor-led class you will learn to:

• Understand the basics of Performance Tuning
• Use the tools of performance tuning
• Tune the MySQL server instance to improve performance
• Improve performance of tables
• Implement proper Schema Design to improve performance
• Improve the performance of MySQL queries

This course is available as:

• Training-on-Demand: Start training within 24 hrs of registering and follow the course at your own pace and from your own desk.
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InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6: Part 2, The Queries!

This is part 2 in a 3 part series. In part 1, we took a quick look at some initial configuration of InnoDB full-text search and discovered a little bit of quirky behavior; here, we are going to run some queries and compare the result sets. Our hope is that the one of two things will happen; either the results returned from a MyISAM FTS query will be exactly identical to the same query when performed against InnoDB data, OR that the results returned by InnoDB FTS will somehow be “better” (as much as it’s actually possible to do this in a single blog post) than what MyISAM gives us.

Recall that we have two different sets of …

Investigating MySQL Replication Latency in Percona XtraDB Cluster

I was curious to check how Percona XtraDB Cluster behaves when it comes to MySQL replication latency — or better yet, call it data propagation latency. It was interesting to see whenever I can get stale data reads from other cluster nodes after write performed to some specific node. To test it I wrote quite a simple script (you can find it in the end of the post) which connects to one node in the cluster, performs an update and then immediately does the read from second node. If the data has been already propagated — good, if not we’ll continue to retry reads until it finally propagates, and then measure the latency. This is used to see whenever application …

This week we interview Shlomi Noach about the upcoming Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo in Santa Clara April 22-25th, 2013. There are 2 organizations with new trainings, too! Ear Candy is a resource with data models, and At the Movies is how to setup and operate Tungsten replication.

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I was discussing how to avoid surprising users and someone pointed out that what seems intuitive and rational to one person is often complete insanity for others. The mental gap between a developer and a user can often be a chasm far too wide to cross. Of all the bug reports I’ve filed against MySQL, here is my all-time favorite: select * from t where a >= 1.0order by a;

Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support On Scientific Linux 6.3

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on a Scientific Linux 6.3 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support.

Thanks for attending my presentation at the Midwest PHP conference!

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Useful links:

Explain Analyzer - for those times that you can't figure out what EXPLAIN is telling you Percona Toolkit - lots of useful tools for managing a MySQL server query-digest-helper - my utility for formatting the results of pt-query-digest  HandlerSocket - a presentation about

Thanks for attending my presentation at the Midwest PHP conference!

Slides as PDF
Leave feedback on joind.in

Useful links:

• Explain Analyzer – for those times that you can’t figure out what EXPLAIN is telling you
• Percona Toolkit – lots of useful tools for managing a MySQL server
• query-digest-helper – my utility for formatting the results of pt-query-digest 
• …

I got rid of unireg.cc way back in 2009 as I rewrote all the FRM related code inside Drizzle to instead use a nice protobuf based structure. If you’re wondering what was there, I just quote this part of pack_screens() from unireg.cc in MySQL 5.6:

start_row=4; end_row=22; cols=80; fields_on_screen=end_row+1-start_row;

We have gradually pulled things out of unireg.h over the years too. But, let’s go back to ask the question “What is UNIREG?”. To answer that, I’m going to quote from something that was current back when MySQL 3.22 was the latest and greatest:

In 1979, he developed an in-house database tool called UNIREG for managing databases. Since 1979, UNIREG has been rewritten in several different languages and extended to handle big databases.

No doubt the definition of big has changed for most people since then. If we …