May 24, 2012

Post: Percona welcomes Drizzle 7.1

the new features over the coming weeks. Major features include: Multi sourced replication XtraBackup included IPv6 data type ZeroMQ plugin Log output to syslog is enabledthe Percona InnoDBThe Ubuntu packages are available from the Drizzle PPA. Instructions on how to install from the PPA are in the

Post: Identifying the load with the help of pt-query-digest and Percona Server

features are added to the application new queries pop up that need tothe ability to enable logging atomically, not just for new connections as in MySQLInnoDB_IO_r_bytes: 16121856 InnoDB_IO_r_wait: 0.001414 # InnoDB_rec_lock_wait: 0.000000 InnoDB_queue_wait: 0.000000 # InnoDB

Post: How to recover a single InnoDB table from a Full Backup

… on how to recover a single tablespace using stock MySQL server. First, you must meet certain prerequisites to be able to restore a ibd tablespace: The…. innodb_import_table_from_xtrabackup=1 should be enabled for such advanced import process to work. You can read more about this feature in Percona…

Post: What's up with HandlerSocket?

MySQL 5.1 are not using the InnoDB plugin because it is not enabled by default! If people cannot be bothered to add a couple of lines to my.cnf to enable the InnoDB

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

Enable the view to use it The SQL_API call flexviews.enable() is used to actually build the contents of the view, making it available for querying: mysqlhow to create a complete refresh view which reads from an incrementally refreshable one. This allows the use of SQL features not available with the

Post: Heikki Tuuri Innodb answers - Part I

…that the execution is not serializable. PZ: Cool. This is one of little known new features in MySQL 5.1 Q15: How frequently does Innodbto enable tuning of the checkpointing rate? Postgres exposes this data and allows the user to tune the checkpointing values. HT: Hmm… we could tune the way InnoDB

Post: Distributed Set Processing with Shard-Query

the database what you want but not how to get it. Most distributed engines work with rows. They break the queries up into theIn fact, it is embarassingly parallel. Because Shard-Query works on sets, and features pluggable partition mapping, it allows partitioning resources to

Post: Should we give a MySQL Query Cache a second chance ?

to disable Query Cache than to enable it. It can cause contention problems as well as stalls and due toto the core of original implementation which appeared in MySQL 4.0 Query Cache was designed to

Post: MySQL Users Conference - Innodb

to have the problem fixed soon ? Yes indeed there is patch out where already which may come in MySQL 5.2 or even MySQLInnodb to unleash performance such as multiple purge threads or parallel log recovery features, which he however needs to test properly before really enabling it. Innodb

Post: New SpecJAppServer results at MySQL and Sun.

to enablehow much speed benefit did it really provide in this case. innodb_max_dirty_pages_pct=15 – Another interesting one. So thefeatures which are worth a bit of performance overhead. My best wishes to the Tom Daly and his team in