June 18, 2013

Post: Experiences with the McAfee MySQL Audit Plugin

for the test (5.5.28-29.1). This is needed as the plugin needs the offset to some MySQL data… connections. Yes, it had to be a capital Q in Quit for that to work, and no, …”,”host”:”localhost”,”cmd”:”Connect”,”query”:”Connect”} {“msg-type“:”activity”,”date”:”1369155747373″,”thread-id”:”6439″,”query-…

Post: Helgrinding MySQL with InnoDB for Synchronisation Errors, Fun and Profit

for no particular reason except that it is a quick-running one. ==9090== Possible data… by 0x6BC72CE: innobase_start_or_create_for_mysql (srv0start.c:1514) ==9090==    by … char const*, st_mysql_show_var*, enum_var_type, system_status_var*,…I simply haven’t analyzed them (yes, there is remains a …

Post: MySQL Upgrade Webinar Questions Followup

… of MySQL 5.0 to MySQL 5.5 should be rather safe from data standpoint. There are still possibilities for sorting order and data type related changes, so you still need to run mysql_upgrade to… ALTER TABLE statements? Yes. This is exactly how it is done in many cases. There is really no gain in dumping table…

Post: Reasons for MySQL Replication Lag

…machines and with no external and …yes this could cause problems with replication lag (and performance in general). Typical problems for…to check the types and frequencies …data growth which just a bit different workload and when backup taken at the wrong time may be responsible for unexpected MySQL

Post: MySQL 5.6 vs MySQL 5.5 and the Star Schema Benchmark

for data mining.  I wrote an earlier blog post which describes the differences between major schema types. I used the SSB data…: Default config for MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.6, no tuning at all Config 2: MySQL 5….count(*) pages, sum(is_old=’YES‘) old, count(*) – sum(is_old=’YES‘) hot, sum(number_records) …

Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster: Failure Scenarios with only 2 nodes

… of their respective owners. Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the current input statement. percona1 mysql> use test ERROR 1047 (08S01): Unknown command If you try to insert data…: primary = yes, bootstrap = no, my_idx = 2, memb_num = 3 2012-07-24 11:42:51.273 INFO: STATE EXCHANGE: Waiting for state…

Post: High-Performance Click Analysis with MySQL

…Use the smallest data types you can, the simplest character sets you can, and watch out for NULLable … With Table Structures Suppose you have some yes/no fact about an ad impression, such as…MySQL is, especially for more complex queries. Percona is not tied to MySQL, although we’re most famous for

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

… 4 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags…MySQL server are extremely limited, and for serious analysis it’s basically mandatory to use a server that has the Percona patches for…the moment there is no other technique that…be rewritten. Indexes and data types and table structures …

Post: Full Text Search Webinar Questions Followup

yes, which one seems the best? No, I didn’t compare relevancy.  I was focused solely on query response time for… SSD drives: one for the Windows partition, and one for the MySQL data partition.  I …No, I don’t know of a reference that compares these technologies for different application types

Post: Ultimate MySQL variable and status reference list

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