Benchmarking lets you test how a system responds when it is given work to do, and removes the guesswork from your performance tuning efforts. The workloads you use when benchmarking are very different from real life deployments, which can be extremely variable. If you remember this, benchmarking is extremely useful, enabling you to measure current performance and determine the performance impact of any changes. Such changes could be the addition of new hardware or opening up your application to more users.

Benchmarking is one of the topics that you can learn more about by taking the MySQL Performance Tuning course. You can take this course in the following formats:

• Training-on-Demand: Start training within 24 hours of registration, following lecture …

There’s one thing that has always bugged me when I review configuration files. People always seem to want to set certain buffer settings to ridiculously high values without really understanding what they’re doing.

Case in point: sort_buffer_size.

The misconception seems to be that setting this value to a high number will always improve a servers performance because everything works better with more memory, right? For some variables (key_buffer, innodb_buffer_pool) maybe, but the entire length of a sort buffer is allocated when ORDER BY is used. In practice, I find it best to leave it at default and watch sort_merge_passes in your status counter to determine if you need to adjust this value. Also, adjust in small amounts.

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Some people think that performance tuning is all about reducing CPU or memory utilization. However CPU and memory are designed to be used. You should concentrate your efforts on improving the user experience by reducing response times. You can do this by optimizing your queries and by enabling your system to serve more requests.

To learn more about improving the performance of the MySQL database, consider taking the MySQL Performance Tuning course.

You can take this 4-day instructor-led course through the following delivery methods:

• Training-on-Demand: Start training within 24-hours of registering, following lectures at your own pace via streaming video and booking time on a lab environment at a time that suits you.
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If you have a busy schedule or too much going on to attend a live training session, Training-on-Demand is for you. With Training-on-Demand, you can watch recorded classroom sessions taught by top Oracle instructors and gain hands-on experience with a dedicated lab environment.

In viewing the classroom sessions, you access streaming lectures on your desktop or tablet, with the ability to fast-forward, pause, rewind and search.

MySQL for Database Administrators is available as training-on-demand. This course is designed for DBAs and other database professionals. Learn to configure the MySQL Server, set up replication and security, perform database backups and performance tuning and protect MySQL …

Whether you are a database administrator, database application developer, web developer, system administrator or system architect, if you are working with a database system such as the MySQL Server, you will want to ensure the best possible performance. 

To learn about the great performance you can get from a MySQL Database, visit Dimitri's blog.

If you have experience maintaining a database server, can use MySQL tools and have knowledge of general SQL statements and SQL tuning principles, consider taking the MySQL Performance Tuning course. In this 4-day instructor-led course, you will learn about:

• What to tune and why
• Monitoring, benchmarking and stress tools …

Configuring MySQL Server, with the dozens of options available, has always been perceived as a bit of a black art. In MySQL Database 5.6, configuring your MySQL server for optimal performance is easier than ever before.

In the MySQL for Database Administrators course you can learn more.

MySQL 5.6 is configured to work faster out of the box in a wide range of installation scenarios and it is easier than ever to set up the server by adjusting only a small number of settings which cause others to be set. In addition, you get a new default my.cnf file with instructions guiding your through adjusting key settings. The …

If the performance of your MySQL servers is important to you, performance tuning is key.

In the 4-day MySQL Performance Tuning course, you learn to analyze and optimize the performance of the MySQL Database, using the tools necessary for monitoring, evaluating and tuning.

You can take this course as a:

• Training-on-Demand event: Start training within 24 hours of registration and take this training at your own pace.
• Live-Virtual event: Attend a live event from your own desk - no travel required. You can choose from a selection of events already on the schedule.
• In-Class event: Travel to an education center to take this training. Below is a selection of the events already on the schedule. …

Because most MySQL production systems probably run on Linux, I’ve decided to place the most important Linux tuning tips that will help improve MySQL performance. There is nothing new here, most of them are well known, however, I’ve decided to collect those Linux configuration tips into 1 blog post.

Filesystem

• ext4 (or xfs), mount with noatime
• Scheduler – use deadline or noop

# echo deadline >/sys/block/sda/queue/scheduler
add "elevator=deadline" to grub.conf

(For more info see Linux Schedulers in TPCC like benchmark)

Memory

• Swappiness and NUMA:

# echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
add "vm.swappiness = 0" to /etc/sysctl.conf

• Set numa interleave all

numactl …

If you are responsible for a MySQL Database, you make choices based on your priorities; cost, security and performance.

To learn more about improving performance, take the MySQL Performance Tuning course. 

In this 4-day instructor-led course you will learn practical, safe and highly efficient ways to optimize performance for the MySQL Server. It will help you develop the skills needed to use tools for monitoring, evaluating and tuning MySQL.

You can take this course via the following delivery methods:Training-on-Demand:

• Take this course at your own pace, starting training within 24 hours of registration.
• Live-Virtual Event: Follow a live-event from your own desk; no travel required. You can choose from a …

The MySQL engineering team constantly works to bring you huge performance improvements with each new release of MySQL. Here are four ways to help you get the most from these improvements

Tap into Sveta Smirnova's MySQL performance expertise on October 1st 2013 at 10am Central European Time, by attending the 1-day virtual seminar, Troubleshooting MySQL Performance with Sveta Smirnova. Sveta starts with basics, working towards more advanced cases that DBAs usually need years of experience to identify or solve. Click here to learn more about this seminar and to register for the event.

The …