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How to Troubleshoot MySQL? | 7 Best Ways

MySQL databases are great workhorses of the internet. They back tons of modern websites, from blogs and checkout carts to huge sites like Facebook. But these technologies don’t run themselves.

When you’re faced with a system that is slowing down, you’ll need the right tools to diagnose and troubleshoot the problem.  MySQL has a huge community following and that means scores of great tools for your toolbox.

In this article, we have mentioned 7 ways that will troubleshoot MySQL effectively and efficiently. Let’s explore them below.

7 Ways to Troubleshoot MySQL

Here are 7 ways to troubleshoot MySQL:

1. Use Innotop

Innotop is a great tool for MySQL which despite the name monitors MySQL generally as well as InnoDB usage. It’s fairly easy to install, just download the perl script. Be sure to include a [client] section to your local users .my.cnf file …

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Migrating MySQL to Oracle

This article is from 2006. MySQL has come a long way since then. MySQL 5.5 is very robust and feature-rich, matching Oracle in many different areas including datatypes, stored procedures and functions, high availability solutions, ACID compliance and MVCC, hotbackups, cold backups and dumps, full text, and other index options, materialized views and much more.  Here’s a high level mysql feature guide.

What really separates the two technologies is culture. MySQL, rooted in the open-source tradition is much more do-it-yourself, leaning towards roll-your-own solutions in many cases. Meanwhile, Oracle provides named and proven paths to solve specific problems.

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Installing WordPress 5 on ZEIT Now with MySQL Hosting

Want to deploy WordPress 5.0 on the Now platform by ZEIT? Our friends over at ZEIT’s Now global serverless deployment platform whipped up a great tutorial for WordPress5-on-Now using cheap MySQL hosting instances from ScaleGrid. With such strong interest in this installation, we decided to write up the steps to configure your MySQL database on the ScaleGrid side to get you up and running ever faster with WordPress on Now.

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@now/wordpress summary:
◆ λ size = 13mb
◆ Just needs `wp-config.php`
◆ All static assets output directly to CDN …

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How to interview an amazon database expert

via GIPHY Amazon releases a new database offering every other day. It sure isn’t easy to keep up. Join 35,000 others and follow Sean Hull on twitter @hullsean. Let’s say you’re hiring a devops & you want to suss out their database knowledge? Or you’re hiring a professional services firm or freelance consultant. Whatever the … Continue reading How to interview an amazon database expert →

Will SQL just die already?

With tons of new No-SQL database offerings everyday, developers & architects have a lot of options. Cassandra, Mongodb, Couchdb, Dynamodb & Firebase to name a few. Join 33,000 others and follow Sean Hull on twitter @hullsean. What’s more in the data warehouse space, you have Hadoop, which can churn through terabytes of data and get … Continue reading Will SQL just die already? →

What products & improvements are new on AWS?

Amazon is releasing new products & services to it’s global cloud compute network at a rate that has all of our heads spinning. Join 32,000 others and follow Sean Hull on twitter @hullsean. Here’s new stuff worth mentioning around databases & data. 1. For ETL – AWS GLUE Moving data from your transactional MySQL or … Continue reading What products & improvements are new on AWS? →

Howto automate MySQL slow query analysis with amazon RDS

If you’ve used relational databases for more than ten minutes, I hope you’ve heard of slow queries. Those are those pesky little gremlins that are slowing down your startup, and preventing scalability you so desperately need. Luckily there’s a solution. What I’ve found is if I send a report to developers every week, it keeps […]

If you use MySQL in the Amazon cloud, you need to ask yourself this question

Join 25,000 others and follow Sean Hull on twitter @hullsean. Are you serious about backups? If you’re just using Amazon EBS snapshots, that may not be sufficient. There’s a good chance it won’t protect you against your next data loss. That’s why I like to have a few different types of backups Also: 5 more […]

No tools to reconcile MySQL with two masters

Here’s the last nail in the coffin. We hope this convinces you not to write to multiple masters with MySQL replication. Reason 10 – No tools to reconcile inconsistent masters For all the endless reasons we’ve already outlined MySQL replication is prone to failure. We know it’s going to happen, you now know too. When [...]

Temp tables can break replication

If you’re not convinced yet that writing to dual masters is a bad idea, we have a couple more reasons. 9. Temp tables break replication after restart MySQL’s replication is sensitive to temporary tables. You shouldn’t use them. If your queries create them to work against, and a node crashes, the temp tables will be [...]

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