Maybe this message looks like a little late for you, but for me it's true. Today I finally got an xDSL internet connection, which starts a whole new epoch for me.

So far, I only had an ISDN connection with a maximum transfer rate of 7 - 8 KB/s. Every 8 hours, the line has been disconnected automatically, so no big downloads were possible - and even smaller downloads made it impossible to surf through the web comfortably. That was extremely limiting and there were many things that I could only dream of.

Now, these times are over! Today I have already downloaded more data than I usually did (or could) in a whole month before - I'm just installing SuSE Linux 10.1 Beta9 in a VMWare server (both just downloaded), and Ubuntu 5.10 is almost finished. Many more things are planned - also to take a close look at MaxDB, as it won't be a problem anymore to quickly download all the things that I need. Downloading new versions of …

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Hey all -

Finally got my “MySQL In-Depth for DBA’s” presenation ready for the big upcoming User’s Conference. I’m looking forward to going over all the nitty-gritty that DBA’s need to know with respect to being as successful as possible with MySQL in their shop. Because I’m a big believer in designing for performance, I’ll be spending a good chunk of time on how to build the right design for the job. Of course, this goes beyond just physical database design, and runs down the path of picking the right security model, the right High-Availability implementation, and much more. We’ll also be spending time on how to focus on the right things when it comes to monitoring and tuning performance. And I’ll be sharing a sneak peek into upcoming MySQL features that every DBA will want to know about.

So if you’re a DBA, or a developer who’s been forced to tackle both your development and the DBA’s job, make sure you …

No, we didn’t forget about Make MySQL 5.1 Rock contest. We were just migrating our bugs database, and going through a little teething problems everytime a Monday hit! (yes, I’ve not been taking them for myself in the last two weeks!) The good news is that, you get an additional fortnight to win yourself an iPod Nano.

This week’s winner is none other than Mike Kruckenberg. He’s submitted a bunch of bug reports, in relation to MySQL Cluster (another hot topic these days), and one that caught my eye was a critical server crash (mysql#18603). He also blogs about his day spent with MySQL 5.1, which is a fun read.

If …

ok.. now this is getting stranger.

I have 2 windows open, in one I get

$ mysqlslap --use-threads -psunfire -c 90 -i 500
Benchmark
        Average number of seconds to run all queries: 2.180 seconds
        Minimum number of seconds to run all queries: 0.779 seconds
        Maximum number of seconds to run all queries: 4.497 seconds
        Number of clients running queries: 90
        Average number of queries per client: 0

and in the other i get

$ mysqlslap --use-threads -psunfire -c 90 -i 500
Benchmark
        Average number of seconds to run all queries: 0.012 seconds
        Minimum number of seconds to run all queries: 0.002 seconds
        Maximum number of seconds to run all queries: 0.015 seconds
        Number of clients running queries: 90
        Average number of queries per client: 0

same machine, same user-id, same binary. the only difference is that mysql started in the ‘fast’ window.

MySQL Users Conference 2006 is now in close proximity and I'm working hard preparing my presentations.
I've got 3 ones this year. All should be very interesting one but challenging to prepare.


First one is MySQL Performance Optimization Tutorial, which I'm doing with Tobias. It is kind of sounding similar to what I've been doing last year
but it is a lot different in the content. Frankly speaking we did not recycle any of the old stuff and just wrote everything from scratch. To learn from
previous year mistakes we now have it more condensed so we can cover everything in short 3 hours, as well as keeping it much more practical. Based on My and Tobiases experience of performance optimization of real application we kind of provide how to or insight on how we work, what exactly do we do, why and how we do it. For particular application there are of course much more specific tricks which can be played but at …

I am writing an article about some advanced replication features (coming soon), and I wanted to measure the speed of each specific architecture I am working with.
There seem to be no builtin MySQL solution for this particular problem, and thus I am using a hand made metrics tool, inspired by something that Jeremy Zawodny suggested in his High Performance MySQL a few years ago (see the relevant chapter on replication with code).
The naive method would be to set a timestamp in a master table, and to measure the same record when it shows up in the slave. Unfortunately, (but correctly, I have to say!) this does not work, because the binary log includes information on the current timestamp, so that master and slave in the end …

Zack Urlocker has posted a great parody pic on his blog. Go and see The Full Monty.

I agree with Markus that closing of Andrew's MySQLDevelopment.com is a really sad news. I hope a way can be found to keep the site alive. I think the best idea would be to make a Wiki like M pointed out.
Frank

The bad side effect of working too late on projects is that you end up dreaming about them.

Well, yesterday night when I went to sleep I dreamt that there was a cool favorites badge of the MySQL community posted on Planet MySQL where all the visitors could see favorites posted to the community in real time. The favorites badge would look something like this:



and / or


The benefit of having a badge like this would be that all the passionate MySQL users would build a joint favorites repository that could be tagged and expanded by anyone. It would be really cool to see the latest trends and patterns of such an initiative. One thing is for sure that finding and organizing new resources as they relate to MySQL would be a breeze.

So I woke up today and just couldn't stop myself from building an interface that does …