In the last poll we discovered some 90% of responders run MySQL on Linux which is not totally a surprise. Number of people asked me to do the followup pool to see what specific Linux distributions are most popular in MySQL space hence this is the poll for today. Please answer what Linux Distribution you’re [...]
What Operating System do you run MySQL on in Production
November 30, 2012 By 5 Comments
This Friday we’ll have two polls instead of one to learn about Operating system we’re using to run MySQL. First Poll is about production use and second is about development. I know many developers would run MySQL on Linux in Production but use Windows or MacOS X for development. Please select operating system which actually [...]
What CPU Architecture do you prefer for running MySQL In production
November 24, 2012 By 13 Comments
Time for another poll! I wonder What CPU Architecture do you use for running MySQL in Production ? I guess most of the game here is between Intel and AMD x86-64 variants though I wonder if there is still a lot of use for others in the wild. If I am missing some Architecture which [...]
Question of the week: Maximum number of tables per MySQL instance.
November 16, 2012 By 5 Comments
I’ve got the great response to my two previous polls (1,2) so lets continue learning about how we all use MySQL. The question of this week is What is the maximum number of tables per MySQL instance do you use ? Thank you for participating!
What is the largest amount of data do you store in MySQL ?
November 9, 2012 By 19 Comments
My previous poll got a great response so I thought I should continue these series. The question of the day today is How much data do your store in your largest MySQL instance ? I’m interested about single instance not the total amount of data you have in MySQL in your Sharded replicated environment. Feel [...]
How Much memory do you use to run MySQL
November 2, 2012 By 8 Comments
We have seen number of issues with MySQL Server related to amount of memory you have in the system – these range from problems with large size Query Cache to bad drop table performance with large Innodb Buffer Pool size. As such I wonder how much memory do we really use to run MySQL Server [...]
