June 20, 2013

Comment: MySQL and Percona Server in LinkBench benchmark

…and that change makes 5.1 competitive with 5.6 (http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2013/02/mysql-56-is-much…them will be fixed in 5.6.12. They should make a difference. I think Oracle might be…between us and them. http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=68658 http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=68588 http://bugs.mysql

Comment: MySQL and Percona Server in LinkBench benchmark

…and that change makes 5.1 competitive with 5.6 (http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2013/02/mysql-56-is-much…them will be fixed in 5.6.12. They should make a difference. I think Oracle might be…between us and them. http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=68658 http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=68588 http://bugs.mysql

Post: More on MySQL transaction descriptors optimization

… and focused only on case #1. Which is the perfect case for read-only transaction optimization in MySQL 5.6, because all SELECT… Percona Server scalability is somewhere in between of MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.6. In order to understand more about differences between results we have rerun tests…

Post: Is Synchronous Replication right for your app?

… trip time (RTT) between any two nodes in…MySQL replication from this instance, since MySQL replication is asynchronous. What about semi-sync MySQL…achievements SET count = count + 1 where achievement = ‘killed_troll…usually get less than 5 people who do out …and Galera is no different in that there are…

Post: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0 'release candidate' for MySQL available for download

… announce the release of Percona XtraBackup 2.1.0-rc1 on May 7, 2013. Downloads … the 5.6 backup with partitioned tables. Bug fixed #1169169. Tables that were dropped between taking …backup process. Bug fixed #1130145. Due to different implementation in MySQL 5.6 error messages were not printed …

Post: MySQL 5.6 Compatible Percona Toolkit 2.2 Released

1 only retries certain operations, pt-osc 2.2 retries every critical operation, and its tries and wait time between…confused with, lock_wait_timeout (introduced in MySQL 5.5) for metadata locks. Now –set-vars is… treated their run-related options a little differently. This magic is gone now: both …

Post: Understanding the maximum number of columns in a MySQL table

…comment on each field you reduce the number of different ENUM elements you can have, you are correct. …-1)-3*2=1017 which is exactly the same as what I can create. That’s right folks, in MySQL 5…maximum number of columns for a table in MySQL is somewhere between 191 and 2829, depending on a number of…

Post: Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 2

… tool used was sysbench 0.5 and the version of MySQL used was Percona Server 5.5.30-rel30.1-465. Each test was allowed…. vCache – MySQL parameter testing The first test was designed to look solely at vCache performance under some different sets of MySQL configuration parameters… couple of different dirty-page ratios on device performance, since this is the only parameter which can be reliably varied between the…

Post: How to recover table structure from InnoDB dictionary

… recovery. Even an unnoticeable difference like NULL or NOT … Here InnoDB keeps correspondence between human readable table names and…mysql/ibdata1 3. Recover SYS_TABLES, SYS_INDEXES, SYS_COLUMNS and SYS_FIELDS from indexes 0-1…FIELDS\t’ (`INDEX_ID`, `POS`, `COL_NAME`); 5. Now everything is ready …

Comment: MySQL Partitioning - can save you or kill you

…is being fixed in 5.6; not sure about Percona … any ‘free’ variant of MySQL. PARTITIONs are scanned one …, UPDATE) are similar in speed between PARTITIONed or non-PARTITIONed….1) find partition (if partitioned), (2) drill down the BTree, (3) remove one record. PARTITIONing makes very little difference