June 19, 2013

Comment: ZFS on Linux and MySQL

…. 2. OmniOS rocks. It is the only stable illumos distro designed for server usage, and it can be bought with an…

Post: Summertime Percona MySQL training update

… 5.6, migration planning, and application verification. This class was designed with the experienced MySQL DBA in mind–so it is…

Post: Implementing SchemaSpy in your MySQL environment

… both HTML links and entity-relationship diagrams. It’s also designed to help resolve the obtuse errors that a database sometimes…

Post: MySQL Query Patterns, Optimized - Webinar questions followup

….  The query optimizer analyzes queries for common patterns the MySQL designers know can be improved.  But there’s a finite amount…

Comment: Replication in MySQL 5.6: GTIDs benefits and limitations - Part 2

… a fundamental (and in my opinion bad) part of the design of MySQL 5.6 global transaction ID. In general, there…

Comment: Replication in MySQL 5.6: GTIDs benefits and limitations - Part 1

…, because MySQL 5.6 GTID is fundamentally broken in the design. You don’t want to be compatible with it. I…

Comment: Be careful when joining on CONCAT

…+acc.number+sufix country number (3 separate columns that by design can only be separate). And cast or convert isn’t…

Post: Webinar: Best Practices for MySQL Scalability on May 1

…, hardware, operating system, MySQL version, MySQL configuration, schema design and indexing, and query design. To avoid having any one of them become…

Post: Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 2

…. vCache vs. vCache – MySQL parameter testing The first test was designed to look solely at vCache performance under some different sets…

Post: Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 1

… software, which is a kernel module and set of utilities designed to provide functionality similar to that of FlashCache. In particular…