June 19, 2013

Post: Migrating between MySQL schemas with Percona Xtrabackup

… _ddl FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA=’orig’ AND ENGINE=’InnoDB’; EOF mysql -N -B <<'EOF' > import-ddl.sql SELECT… _ddl FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA=’orig’ AND ENGINE=’InnoDB’; EOF For full disclosure, here are the versions I…

Post: Choosing a MySQL HA Solution - Post-Webinar Q&A

… on the same machine if you use the BLACKHOLE storage engine) in between the actual master and the slaves at the…

Post: MySQL Query Patterns, Optimized - Webinar questions followup

… can be improved.  But there’s a finite amount of engineer-years spent developing and testing the query optimizer.  The developers…

Post: The small improvements of MySQL 5.6: Duplicate Index Detection

…, PRIMARY KEY (`id`), KEY `col2` (`col2`), KEY `col2_2` (`col2`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 1 row in set (0.00…, pt-duplicate-key-checker will detect subtle redundancies that are engine-dependent, like redundant suffixes for secondary keys in InnoDB. As…

Comment: Percona XtraBackup 2.1.3 for MySQL available for download

… Connection ID (thread ID): 3 Status: NOT_KILLED You may download the Percona Server operations manual by visiting http://www.percona…

Post: Choosing a MySQL HA Solution - MySQL Webinar: June 5

… cost of the others, the resulting system may be over-engineered, poorly-performing, and/or various other flavors of suboptimal. On…

Post: ZFS on Linux and MySQL

… it is a copy on write filesystem, the snapshots are free, no performance penalty.  You can easily run a server with… the impact is up front and the backups are almost free.

Comment: INSERT INTO ... SELECT Performance with Innodb tables.

… in 5.5. Here is the related output from show engine innodb status: —TRANSACTION BB0E42A, ACTIVE 3 sec fetching rows, thread…

Post: Percona MySQL University @Portland: June 17

… moved to the area. Percona MySQL University is a daylong, free, fast-paced and very technical MySQL educational event for wide…

Comment: How to calculate a good InnoDB log file size

…_logfile* && date && mysql -BNe’show engine innodb status\G’ | grep sequence && sleep 60 && date && mysql -BNe’show engine innodb status\G’ | grep sequence && ls…