March 25, 2008

MySQL Public Worklog and Community Focus

Posted by peter

MySQL made some tasks from their internal task tracking tool - Worklog a while back. I just have not look at it besides checking Maria related tasks until couple of days ago as Jay announced new Forge going live.
Check it out - there are a lot of nice ideas out where. I can find a lot of things I originally submitted something like 5 years ago out there :)

I contributed most ideas during my first years at MySQL, some on my own some reformed customer suggestions from Sales/Support/Consulting engagements I was on. Later I practically stopped because there were not much attention to those small little convenience things - MySQL was on the road to take over enterprise market and all resources were focused on big things which allow to sell things to these customers.
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MySQL 6.0 vs 5.1 in TPC-H queries

Posted by Vadim

Last week I played with queries from TPC-H benchmarks, particularly comparing MySQL 6.0.4-alpha with 5.1. MySQL 6.0 is interesting here, as there is a lot of new changes in optimizer, which should affect execution plan of TPC-H queries. In reality only two queries (from 22) have significantly better execution time (about them in next posts), but I want to write about is queries that execute slower in new MySQL 6.0 version.
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