As we all know, good DBAs are a dime a dozen. They’re easy to replace and the cost of replacing them in terms of lost productivity, downtime, recruiting, training, etc is minimal. You may even suspect that your DBA(s) aren’t very good since there is occasional downtime and people complain about the systems running too slowly. Firing people is icky so we’ve identified 8 great ways to encourage your DBA to leave.

8. Specialize Their Role

Nothing puts more pressure on a DBA to perform than being a specialist. A specialist is the only person who has access or knowledge to do something, which means everyone else is going to be coerced into learned helplessness and apathy. Oh, and the bystander effect will run rampant when something goes wrong. “I’m sure the DBA is working on that.”

Yep. You definitely want the DBA’s role to be specialized so they’re properly isolated and all the blame falls on them when …

As we all know, good DBAs are a dime a dozen. They’re easy to replace and the cost of replacing them in terms of lost productivity, downtime, recruiting, training, etc is minimal. You may even suspect that your DBA(s) aren’t very good since there is occasional downtime and people complain about the systems running too slowly. Firing people is icky so we’ve identified 8 great ways to encourage your DBA to leave.

8. Specialize Their Role

Nothing puts more pressure on a DBA to perform than being a specialist. A specialist is the only person who has access or knowledge to do something, which means everyone else is going to be coerced into learned helplessness and apathy. Oh, and the bystander effect will run rampant when something goes wrong. “I’m sure the DBA is working on that.”

Yep. You definitely want the DBA’s role to be specialized so they’re properly isolated and all the blame falls on them when …

Some years ago I posted an article about the code size in the MySQL Workbench project and talked a bit about the different subprojects and modules. At that time the project consisted of ~400K LOC (including third-party code) and already then the parser was the second biggest part with nearly a forth of the size of the entire project. This parser project back then used the yacc grammar from the MySQL server codebase and was our base for all parsing tasks in the product. Well, things have changed a lot since these days and this blog post discusses the current parsing infrastructure in MySQL Workbench.

We started looking into a more flexible way of creating our parser infrastructure. Especially the generation of lexer and parser from the grammar was a long …

Fri, 2015-08-14 09:34geoff_montee_g

Conservative in-order parallel replication is a great feature in MariaDB 10.0 that improves replication performance by using knowledge of group commit on the master to commit transactions in parallel on a slave. If slave_parallel_threads is greater than 0, then the SQL thread will instruct multiple worker threads to concurrently apply transactions that were committed in the same group commit on the master.

Conservative in-order parallel replication is a good alternative to out-of-order parallel replication …

Introduction: where we standPrevious episodes:

• MySQL replication monitoring 101

MySQL replication in action - Part 1: GTID & Co
In the latest releases of MySQL and MariaDB we have seen several replication improvements. One of the most exciting additions is the ability to enhance basic replication with multiple sources. Those who have used replication for a while should remember that one of the tenets of the “old” replication was that a slave couldn’t have more than one master. This was The Law and there was no escape ... until now. The only way to work around that prohibition was to use circular replication, also known as …

Leif Walsh will talk about the language of compression at Percona Live Amsterdam

Storage. Everyone needs it. Whether your data is in MySQL, a NoSQL, or somewhere in the cloud, with ever-growing data volumes – along with the need for SSDs to cut latency and replication to provide insurance – an organization’s storage footprint is an important place to look for savings. That’s where compression comes in (squeeze!) to save disk space.

Two Sigma software engineer Leif Walsh speaks the language of compression. Fluently. In fact, he’ll be speaking on

that exact subject September 22 during the Percona Live conference in …

Welcome to the final – but most important – episode in the MySQL QA Series.

In it, I present my vision for all MySQL Quality Assurance – for all distributions – worldwide.

Episode 13: A Better Approach to all MySQL Regression, Stress & Feature Testing: Random Coverage Testing & SQL Interleaving

1. pquery Review
2. Random Coverage Testing
3. SQL Interleaving
4. The past & the future

Presented by Roel Van de Paar. Full-screen viewing @ 720p resolution recommended

Interested in the full MySQL QA Series?

The post MySQL Quality Assurance: A Vision for the Future by Roel Van de Paar (Final Episode 13) appeared first on MySQL Performance Blog.

Dear MySQL users,

MySQL Connector/Net 6.7.8, 6.8.6, and 6.9.7 are maintenance releases for the series of the .NET driver for MySQL. They can be used for production environments.

They are appropriate for use with MySQL server versions 5.5-5.7.

They are now available in source and binary form from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/
(note that not all mirror sites may be up to date at this point-if you can’t find this version on some mirror, please try again later or choose another download site.)

Changes in MySQL Connector/Net 6.8.8

• Connections to MySQL server 5.7 now default to using SSL.

Changes in MySQL Connector/Net 6.8.6

• Connections to MySQL server 5.7 now default to using SSL.

Changes in MySQL Connector/Net 6.9.7

• The selection of a …

TokuFT (now called PerconaFT) is the write optimized storage component used by TokuDB for MySQL and TokuMX for MongoDB.  Since TokuFT is its own component, TokuFT can be tested independently of TokuDB and TokuMX.  Some of the TokuFT tests use valgrind's memcheck, helgrind, and DRD tools to identify bugs.

Helgrind and DRD find data races in multi-threaded programs at runtime rather than at compile time.  In my experience with these …

What is MySQL Package Verification? Package verification (Pkgver for short) refers to black box testing of MySQL packages across all supported platforms and across different MySQL versions. In Pkgver, packages are tested in order to ensure that the basic user experience is as it should be, focusing on installation, initial startup and rudimentary functionality. When […]