We’ve released an updated version of the MySQL Configuration Wizard we announced at the end of last year. If you don’t remember that announcement, here’s the short version: this is a tool to help you generate my.cnf files based on your server’s hardware and other characteristics.

We’ve gotten really good feedback on this tool, including this nice mention on Stack Exchange:

Percona just built a tool to do just that called the Configuration Wizard. I tested it out once just to see what it would return and the results were pretty darn close to what we were using on our servers, whose cnf’s were put together by highly trained mysql certified dba’s.

So what’s changed in the new version of the Configuration Wizard? Quite a few things. We’ve rolled …

iiBench measures the rate at which a database can insert new rows while maintaining several secondary indexes. We ran this for 1 billion rows with TokuDB and InnoDB starting last week, right after we launched TokuDB v5.2. While TokuDB completed it in 15 hours, InnoDB took 7 days.

The results are shown below. At the end of the test, TokuDB’s insertion rate remained at 17,028 inserts/second whereas InnoDB had dropped to 1,050 inserts/second. That is a difference of over 16x. Our complete set of benchmarks for TokuDB v5.2 can be found here.

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Yesterday, during a session at a User Group Leader's conference, I suggested to the MySQL Community Team (Keith Larson and Dave Stokes) that it would be nice to see all the events that Oracle does that are MySQL-related, because everyone else is posting their MySQL events to Planet MySQL and Oracle was talking about events I had never heard of. I noted that http://events.oracle.com/search/search?group=Events&keyword=mysql has an RSS feed.

Well, Keith and Dave also thought that was a good idea, so they added the feed. Looks like Oracle's feed isn't so great, though, and they're working on the fix with the appropriate tech folks within Oracle.

I think it is ridiculous that some folks say things like "I hope planet mysql has not been hijacked!". Of course it has …

Is it just me, or what’s happened to Planet MySQL?!?

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Let’s hope this isn’t a permanent change. :-/

Update:

Good news .. the site has been fixed now.

In the future, a small note/post would be great to let the community know that there is a problem and that you’re working on it.

MySQL Connector/Net 6.5.1, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released.  This is a beta release of our newest connector and comes with several new features.  It is of beta quality and should not be used in any production environment.  It is appropriate for use with MySQL server versions 5.0-5.6

It is now available in source and binary form from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/#downloads and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point-if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)

This new versions brings new features such as

• Exception and command injector support
• Millseconds support
• Better partial-trust support
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MySQL Connector/Net 6.5.1, a new version of the all-managed .NET driver for MySQL has been released.  This is a beta release of our newest connector and comes with several new features.  It is of beta quality and should not be used in any production environment.  It is appropriate for use with MySQL server versions 5.0-5.6

It is now available in source and binary form from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/#downloads and mirror sites (note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point-if you can't find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)

This new versions brings new features such as

• Exception and command injector support
• Millseconds support
• Better partial-trust support
…

Sometimes we need to restore only some tables from a full backup maybe because your data loss affect a small number of your tables. In this particular scenario is faster to recover single tables than a full backup. This is easy with MyISAM but if your tables are InnoDB the process is a little bit different story.

With Oracle’s stock MySQL you cannot move your ibd files freely from one server to another or from one database to another. The reason is that the table definition is stored in the InnoDB shared tablespace (ibdata) and the transaction IDs and log sequence numbers that are stored in the tablespace files also differ between servers. Therefore our example will be very straightforward: we’ll delete some rows from a table in order to recover the table later.

Most of these limitations are solved on Percona Server . More info about this in the conclusion section of this post. This post will …

Managing SSL certificates for MySQL can be somewhat of a pain, especially when setting it up on multiple machines.

I looked around on the web, and didn’t really run into any mentions of how to do this for multiple machines, so I dug into it a bit more.

If you’ve created the certificates before, you’ll know you get prompted for various bits of information during a couple of the steps (country, state, email).

However, this can be by-passed by using the -batch option with the openssl command.

So, to set this up for multiple servers, just loop through the following 5 commands for your servers:

cd C:\mysql\certs
openssl genrsa 2048 > ca-key.pem
openssl req -new -x509 -nodes -days 3600 -batch -key ca-key.pem > ca-cert.pem
openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -days 3600 -batch -nodes -keyout server-key.pem >
        server-req.pem
openssl x509 -req -in server-req.pem -days 3600 -CA ca-cert.pem
        -CAkey …

The program for this year's MySQL conference is now published.

As regular readers will remember, I served on the program committee this year and was one of those who appealed for people to send in great proposals. I would now like to thank all of you that sent in proposals. On my quick count we had over 250 proposals, and if I look at my own ratings I'd say about 180 of them were really good, conference worthy talks (and this already excludes some pretty good talks). A related piece of trivia was that this might have been the first year ever that the deadline for the Call for Proposals wasn't extended, which possibly took some of you by surprise. We simply got so many good talks by the deadline, that there wasn't any need to. …

The Oracle User Group Leaders Summit is over and it appears that Oracle has some of the MySQL ACE Members (George, Sheeri, Ronald) backed up against the wall! 
It was great to get the user groups together and we need more MySQL User Groups to attend next year! You can follow IOUC on twitter @IOUC_Conference & http://www.iouc.org/