After having reviewed the definition my the previous post (The definitions), the next step is to respond to some questions. Do you need MySQL High-Availability? That question is quite obvious but some times, it is skipped. It can also be formulated “What is the downtime cost of the service?”. In the cost, you need to [...]
Training Updates
October 16, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I wanted to provide an update on two things: Firstly, we have opened registration for InnoDB/XtraDB training in Los Angeles (Nov 18th). The second is that while I am in New York City for training (Oct 29th), I’ll be giving a (free) talk at the MySQL Meetup group there (Oct 28th). We love to speak [...]
How (not) to find unused indexes
October 16, 2009 By 2 Comments
I’ve seen a few people link to an INFORMATION_SCHEMA query to be able to find any indexes that have low cardinality, in an effort to find out what indexes should be removed. This method is flawed – here’s the first reason why: CREATE TABLE `sales` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `customer_id` int(11) DEFAULT NULL, [...]
MySQL-Memcached or NOSQL Tokyo Tyrant – part 2
October 16, 2009 By 8 Comments
Part 1 of our series set-up our “test” application and looked at boosting performance of the application by buffer MySQL with memcached. Our test application is simple and requires only 3 basic operations per transaction 2 reads and 1 write. Using memcached combined with MySQL we ended up nearly getting a 10X performance boost from [...]
