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Would you like to work with the biggest websites and social networks in the world? Do you want to support large enterprises with their database initiatives? Would you like to assist ISVs and OEMs providing the technology that powers their products?

In the MySQL Sales Consulting organization we do just that.

You’ll support MySQL partners, customers and prospects across EMEA, evangelize our products, assist marketing and cooperate with product management to shape the future of MySQL.

Sounds interesting? We're actively looking for senior professionals to join the team!
Feel free to reach me on LinkedIn for more information or have a look at the links below:

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Not every company or application needs an elastic database. Some applications can get by just fine on a single database server, rendering database elasticity moot from their perspective. To make this determination, simply ask yourself:
1. Will I need more than a single database server? Look at your current load and your projected growth and ask yourself whether it will exceed the capacity of a single server. If it doesn’t now, nor will it in the future, then you don’t need an elastic database.
2. Will my load fluctuate sufficiently to warrant the investment in elasticity? If your database requirements won’t experience fluctuations in demand—e.g. daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal changes in the number of servers required—then elasticity isn’t important. For example, if you have a social networking application that requires 2 database nodes 24x7, but peaks at 10 nodes for 2 hours a night, then elasticity is important. If your …

1. This page or area of the website is very slow, why?

There are a lot of components that make up modern internet websites, and a lot of places to get stuck in the mud.  Website performance starts with the browser, what caching it is doing, their bandwidth to your server, what the webserver is doing (caching or not and how), if the webserver has sufficient memory, and then what the application code is doing and lastly how it is interacting with the backend database.

With all this complexity, it's no wonder so many sites struggle.  Typically these types of analysis start with some load testing, to stress test your setup, so you can watch for leaks.  Then some tools are applied to the webserver tier, and the database tier to see where the bottleneck lies.  It may be in the network …

"Tungsten has made huge strides this year in performance and usability." http://www.facebook.com/MySQLatFacebook

Installing DRDB in CentOS 5.6.

In Part 1 I when through the process of preparing a number of CentOS 5.6 servers. Now make the services they’ll preform more stable.

High Availability (HA)

I’ll be presenting two ways to provide redundant data and high available services. First, Pacemaker – with DRDB will duplicate your data at the disk partition level and watch for failures. Should the hardware failure, Pacemaker will take all the needed steps to start MySQL on the Hot Stand By (HSB). This is not perfect. Should someone run ‘rm *’ or drop a database DRDB will duplicate the loss on the HSB.

In another part, I’ll use …

It was my pleasure and privilege to attend Codebits in 2009. As Roland Bouman says, its talk choice method is based on public voting, and therefore everyone cha have contribute to the schedule.But that is not the main reason for attending this extraordinary event. It is not just a conference. It's an innovation fest. For 1 and 1/2 days, it's a conference, where the speakers are encouraged to bring to their audience the most innovative and inspiring talks. In the afternoon of the second day, the event becomes a competition, where the teams that have registered will have 24 hours to bring a project to completion, and they have to start and finish within the allotted time. The project can be anything, and I have seen quite a lot …

I see this message on our forums, and I think it’s a great question: “Which version of Percona Server is currently recommended?” It’s really the same question as “Which version of MySQL is currently recommended?” I’ll respond here and then post a link in the forum as a reply.

In my opinion, it’s important to qualify this question by understanding whether we’re talking about an existing MySQL installation, or a new one. The answer is different for each case. (There are other qualifying questions I’d ask too, but this is the biggest distinguisher).

For an existing MySQL database server, I’d encourage not jumping on a new version immediately when it comes out. Let some early adopters try it out first, and when it gets more broad deployment, then consider it. The reason I say this is that the …

I will be presenting The Care and Feeding of a MySQL Database for Linux System Administrators at Linuxcon. This is a short talk on what Linux Admins can do to get their MySQL instances performing properly, where to budget your server money, and some other tips to make life easier. It can not turn a good system admin into a good DBA no more than a 40 minute talk on being a Linux Admin will make a DBA a good Linux Admin. But it is a good overview of the subject. And for the sake of the environment, I will be recycling all my old jokes again. So see you Friday, 3:00 in Plaza B in the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver.

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I often run my ops like I take care of data; a bit overzealously. Case in point, when setting up a new database, I like to throw on a metric for database size, which gets turned into both a graph for trending, but also an alert on database size. Everyone is always on board with trending database size in a graph, but the alert is one people tend to question. This is not entirely without justification.

On a new database, with no data or activity, deciding when to alert is pretty fuzzy. When we set up a new client within our managed hosting service, I usually just toss up an arbitrary number, like 2GB or something. The idea isn't that a 2GB database is a problem, it's that when we cross 2GB, we should probably take a look at the trending graph and do a projection. Depending on how things look, we'll bump up the threshold on the alert to a new …