May 24, 2012

Post: My talks on PL MySQL Conference (+free book inside)

…. There I will cover XtraDB Cluster features and usage scenarios. MySQL and SSD: usage and tuning. This talk I’ve been… to MySQL, XtraBackup, XtraDB Cluster, etc. More interesting, by the time of conference we will have published our new book: High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

… read these, there’s a full explanation in our book, High Performance MySQL 2nd Edition (it’s not in the first edition). From… the discussion to topics such as monitoring, alerting, backups, caching, reverse proxies, and high availability solutions, all of which we can frequently…

Post: Upgrading MySQL

…it is many month projects. Why is that ? Performing MySQL upgrade two things should normally worry you. It…for any reason). As you’ve gotten database backup and set of queries which is representative …number of scalability bugs in MySQL history when issues would only happen at high load. You can …

Post: No more MySQL Crash Safe Replication in 5.0 ?

… more in MySQL 5.0 Baron has spotted it by incident when we were verifying some of examples for High Performance MySQL book. In the bug Heikki explains the code was probably removed in MySQL 5.0 during XA… cases – for example when you’re taking LVM snapshot (for backup or to clone slave from the master) and can’t…

Post: Flexviews - part 3 - improving query performance using materialized views

mysql binary logs for point-in-time recovery after a restoring a backup. Since the backupperformancemysql> select sum(total_lines) from complete_example2; +——————+ | sum(total_lines) | +——————+ | 155187034 | <-- too high +——————+ 1 row in set (0.68 sec) mysql

Page: Consulting for MySQL

High Performance Application Architecture Design If you application architecture is flawed there is only limited gain you can achieve by MySQL

Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster Feature 1: High Availability

… Cluster. The first feature is High Availability. But before jumping to HA… that you can convert your existing MySQL / Percona Server into Node and …you can shutdown any Node to perform maintenance or make configuration changes. …frm files (the same as with regular backup). Even with that, SST may be…

Post: Product to try: MySQL/MariaDB-Galera 0.8

MySQL/MariaDB + Galera 0.8 is interesting? It allows to solve following problems: A Real High… an average MySQL master-slave setup. Potential performance penalty: Although to have performance numbers I …integration with Percona XtraBackup and its incremental backup features, it is possible to have …

Post: Looking for RAID Controller without Battery Learning problems ?

… Cycle problems and its impact to MySQL Performance. Here are couple of links (1,… battery discharge/learn cycle many Battery Backup Unit (BBU) based controllers help but … Disabled Automatic Failover : Enabled Global task priority : High Performance Mode : Default/Dynamic Stayawake period : Disabled …

Post: When would you use SAN with MySQL ?

… the local system performance independently from anything else. Performance This is perhaps …you want SAN like high availability I would highly consider DRBD which can…MySQL replication is a showstopper) and it also solves the other big pain of semi-online MySQL/OS upgrades and Schema changes. Backups