February 10, 2012

How MySQL Query Cache works with Transactions

As MySQL Manual Says Query Cache works with transactions with Innodb tables but it does not tell you how and with which restrictions. According to my tests it works but it is very restricted and one could expect it to work much better: The result set can be retrieved from query cache (for statements both [...]

Monty unviels Maria and starts Blogging

This weekend we’re hearing great news from Michael “Monty” Widenius – one of the Fathers of MySQL. Monty finally found a time to create his own blog with very descriptive name Monty Says. At the same time Monty finally announces Maria – the MyISAM successor storage engine he has been working for last few years. [...]

No more MySQL Crash Safe Replication in 5.0 ?

As you might know even if you’re only using Innodb tables your replication is not completely crash safe – if Slave MySQL Server crashes/power goes down it is likely for relay logs to run out of sync (they are not synced to the disk) plus position on the master which slave remembers becomes stale. During [...]