Hi everyone,

I am Taufiq Aalam and i am extremely honoured and happy to be a part of GSoc2008. My project deals with developing mysqlslap. I am very excited about it and have been working hard for the past 2 weeks. Got to know a lot about mysql from the developer’s perspective (”Under the hood”).

This is my first serious attempt at blogging and am doing it to keep track and inform others (especially my mentor,Brian Aker) about the progress. I do not generally blog but doing it mainly for GSoc project. I was very happy to see one of our fellow mysql students being mentioned by Leslie hawthorn as an example to follow. Kudos to Filippo Bolini !!! …

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This option, currently available only for Linux, if set enables the usage of large pages by MySQL. Many operating systems/system architectures support optional memory pages bigger than the default size (4 KB). Usually the large page size is 2 MB, this …

Sometimes it is nice to show customers the functionality of MySQL-Enterprise Monitor (aka Merlin). I install the agents on the servers and the dashboard runs on my laptop. But very often only ssh is open to these servers.

So how to dig a whole through the firewall for MySQL-Enterprise Monitor?

 # ssh -R 18080:localhost:18080 oli@where_the_agent_sits

Maybe trivial for you but for me its hard to remember...

Sometimes it is nice to show customers the functionality of MySQL-Enterprise Monitor (aka Merlin). I install the agents on the servers and the dashboard runs on my laptop. But very often only ssh is open to these servers.
So how to dig a whole through the firewall for MySQL-Enterprise Monitor?
laptop> ssh -R 18080:localhost:18080 oli@where_the_agent_sitsMaybe trivial for you but for me its hard to remember...

I've uploaded MySQL Replication Manager's (mysqlreplicationmanager) screenshot and Screencast

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I've uploaded MySQL Replication Manager's (mysqlreplicationmanager) screenshot and Screencast

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You can download a full size video from here.

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If you use replication with MySQL and memcache at the same time you have the problem to make sure that the memcached and the slave are in sync. If you announce the memcached to mark a entry as dirty and let it update the value from the slave BEFORE it is updated, you fetch a old value.

The easiest way to ensure that memcache is always notified after the slave is updated, you can use ... well ... replication. MySQL 5.1 brings Row Based Replication that makes this kind of applications a lot easier.

I'm not there to present you a Proof of Concept, I'm only close enough to explain the idea:

• Slave fetches records from Master
• Slave applies the records
• Slave exposes its changes as replication stream to the MySQL Proxy
• MySQL Proxy decodes the RBR records, extracts the Primary Key and updates the content in the memcache server

The MySQL Proxy acts as replication client …

I understand that MySQL as a company wants to recruit paying customers. However, as a community user I have a hard time finding what I want on the MySQL website. Today’s frustration is brought to you by trying to find the documentation.

Go ahead, hit http://www.mysql.com. From there, where do you go to find the documentation?

It’s not Services, not even Services -> Support.

According to Products, the community server is not even a product. How is a potential new user, who wants to learn about MySQL, supposed to know a community version exists? Here are the products listed on the Products page:

MySQL Enterprise
MySQL Enterprise Monitor
MySQL Cluster
MySQL Embedded Database
MySQL Database Drivers
MySQL Database Tools

Where’s “MySQL Database” on that list? A website user basically has to know what they’re …

So today Roman, one of the developers on the Doctrine project, pointed me to an article that was discussing the misuse of DISTINCT. This article went so far as to say that "A SELECT DISTINCT query is frequently a "code smell". The article pointed to another article hosted at onlamp.com. That author was advocating the use of subqueries to more efficiently filter out redundant rows. Immediately I began to wonder if this is really a feasible approach since MySQL's subquery handling is very slow. I could imagine this being faster on RDBMS where the subquery implementation is more mature. That being said comments in the onlamp.com article point to the fact that even on Oracle things get slower with the …