In this blog, we’ll use some test results to look at the rationale for using provisioned IOPS volumes for AWS databases.

One piece of advice you often hear running MySQL, MongoDB or other databases in the AWS EC2 environment is that you should use volumes with provisioned IOPs. This kind of makes sense on the “marketing” level, where provisioned IOPS (io1) volumes are designed for IO-intensive database workloads, while General Purpose (gp2) volumes are not. But if you go to the AWS volume type description, you will find that gp2s are shown to have pretty good IO performance. So where do all these supposed database performance problems for Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), with no provisioned IOs, come from?

Here is what I found out running experiments with a beta of …

In this blog, I discuss a MongoDB administration checklist designed to help MySQL DBAs.

If you are MySQL DBA, starting MongoDB administration is not always an easy transition. Although most of the concepts and even implementation are similar, the commands are different. The following table outlines the typical MySQL concepts and DBA tasks (on the left) to corresponding MongoDB ones (on the right). If you happen to be a MongoDB DBA and want to learn MySQL administration, you can use the same table looking from right to left.

I’ve also created a webinar, MongoDB administration for MySQL DBA, that explains the above concepts. You can download the slides to use as a reference.

Don’t forget …

Sometimes we require to get age from birthdate using mysql select query we can do it in programming like phpnet and etc framework but if we can do it using mysql query In bellow example mysql query you can learn how to get age from date field We can get age value from using mysql DATEDIFF S

Sometimes we require to get age from birthdate using mysql select query we can do it in programming like phpnet and etc framework but if we can do it using mysql query In bellow example mysql query you can learn how to get age from date field We can get age value from using mysql DATEDIFF S

You’re running MySQL as backend database, how do you tune it to make best use of the hardware? How do you optimize the Operating System? How do you best configure MySQL for a specific database workload?

Do these questions sound familiar to you? Maybe you’re having to deal with that type of situation yourself?

A database server needs CPU, memory, disk and network in order to function. Understanding these resources is important for a DBA, as any resource that is weak or overloaded can become a limiting factor and cause the database server to perform poorly. A main task of the DBA is to tune operating system and database configurations and avoid overutilization or underutilization of the available resources.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss some of the settings that are most often tweaked and which can bring you significant improvement in the performance of your MySQL database. We will also cover some of the variables …

This week I was preparing the exercises for our MySQL/MariaDB for Beginners training. One of the exercises of the training is about MySQL spatial (GIS) features. I always tell customers: "With these features you can answer questions like: Give me all points of interest around me!"

Now I wanted to try out how it really works and if it is that easy at all...

To get myself an idea of what I want to do I did a little sketch first:

In this blog, I intend to present the MySQL Enterprise Monitor (MEM), and also to present a multi-machine vagrant setup by adding a vagrant-hostmanager plugin to configure the /etc/hosts on the VMs. To start, I begin by installing the hostmanager plugin on my mac where I manage my environments. [crayon-58c2f17573ee8441268854/] OK, so that was easy.… Read More »

In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the Troubleshooting locking issues webinar.

First, I want to thank you for attending the May, 12 webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Below is the list of your questions that I wasn’t able to answer during the webinar, with responses:

Q: Do you have the links to those other info sources?

A: Yes, they are listed in the “More Information” slide. In the PDF, all the links are active. If you speak Russian, you can also check …

LEMP or Linux, Engine-x, MySQL, and PHP is a collection of software installed on the Linux operating system to get your PHP based web applications up and running on the fast Nginx web server. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Nginx, MariaDB, and PHP-FPM on openSUSE leap 42.1. Then I will configure the OpenSUSE firewall with SuSEfirewall2 to allow access to the Nginx web server and show you how you can add a new virtual host configuration on the Nginx web server.

I have a few upcoming speaking engagements in June 2016:

• Nerdear.la – June 9-10 2016 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – never been to this event but MariaDB Corporation are sponsors and I’m quite excited to be back in Buenos Aires. I’m going to talk about the MySQL ecosystem in 2016.
• SouthEast LinuxFest – June 10-12 2016 – Charlotte, NC, USA – I have a few talks here, a bit bummed that I’m going to be missing the speaker dinner, but I expect this to be another great year. Learn about MariaDB Server/MySQL Security Essentials, the MySQL ecosystem in 2016, and about distributions from the view of a package.
• NYC MySQL Meetup – June 27 2016 – New York, USA – I’m …