June 18, 2013

Post: SHOW INNODB STATUS walk through

of tables locked normally stays 0, unless it is ALTER TABLE or similar statement, or if LOCK TABLES was used. In addition toin this case database pages will not be equal to total size of

Post: Percona XtraDB Cluster - installation and setup webinar follow up Q&A

how to start up a cluster from scratch (i.e. a standalone XtraDB Cluster machine, convert it to a cluster type, and add nodes to it) Aservers in different datacenters? thanks! A: Yes, as long as there are at least 3 datacenters, and the total number of

Post: High-Performance Click Analysis with MySQL

to rely on SQL tend to get really bogged down.  In contrast, moving the processing outside the database lets you parallelize trivially. If you need toa database. Sharding and Partitioning Sharding is inevitable if your write workload exceeds the capacity of a single server

Post: MySQL Query Cache

table granularity is not the problem, I have only one server and number ofget data in chunks so it is even harder to implement. Might not work with transactions – Different transactions may see different states of the databaseto add Qcache_hits to Com_select to get total number of

Post: Intro to OLAP

servers almost always query over a database which is structured as a STAR or snowflake type schema. To go back to the sales analysis example above, in a

Post: Full Text Search Webinar Questions Followup

of memory fatal error, and the Windows 7 server I was testing on prompted me toin-memory database, you can get a lot ofNo, I don’t know of a reference that compares these technologies for different application types.  There are books that describe how to

Post: Shard-Query EC2 images available

database About the cluster For best performance, there should be an even data distribution in the system. To getsql-mode=STRICT_TRANS_TABLES symbolic-links table-definition-cache=16384 table-open-cache=128 thread-cache-size=32 thread-stack=256K tmp-table

Post: MySQL Limitations Part 1: Single-Threaded Replication

servers get more and more CPUs and CPU cores. The replication replay process executes in a single thread on the replicas, and thus has noof the server‘s total capacity. But eventually, it does become a problem if the app gets large enough, no matter how large the read-to