June 18, 2013

Post: Distro Packages, Pre-built Binaries or Compile Your Own MySQL

… Percona-Server-server or apt-get install percona-server-server? …MySQL and running mysql_upgrade. Unlike package managers, you do not have to worry about accidentally updating from one version to another because you forgot tohow MySQL behaves with your application, maybe it would also make sense to

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

…could track versions for tables (increment each time table is updated) and check whenever version matches for…Plus if we can get MySQL protocol to support such light compression in addition to zlib we could stream… What is in the MySQL Query Cache ? How many hits did we get for this query item ?…

Post: Debugging MySQL SSL problems

to ensure SSL was working properly from the command line first before trying to get replication toMySQL version.  I had already added the relevant config options in the ‘mysqld’ section of the my.cnf: [mysqld] ssl-key=/etc/mysql

Post: How fast can MySQL Process Data

to keep it simple) (In reality I did multiple runs to get accurate results, but I show only one here) mysql…. I also decided to see how longer rows affect performance …mysql> show table status like “m4″ \G *************************** 1. row *************************** Name: m4 Engine: MEMORY Version

Post: MySQL Life Cycle. Your Feedback is needed.

MySQL versions not being upgraded to the most recent version in series. It is frequent to see something like MySQLHow long older platforms need to be supported ? I think for example it makes sense to support RHEL4 with MySQL

Post: How adding another table to JOIN can improve performance ?

… this case. But if it gets to hundreds of thousands this method starts to break (and newer MySQL versions will stop using this optimization method… have something to learn about MySQL Optimizer gotchas :) At the same time I figured out how to make MySQL Optimizer to do what we want to do…

Post: How to load large files safely into InnoDB with LOAD DATA INFILE

…-yet-purged, row versions. Later, the purge thread will have to clean these up. This is how you make InnoDB behave… more lines. If you ‘cat’ the fifo file, you get a million lines at a time from it. The… other terminal: while [ -e /tmp/my-fifo ]; do time mysql -e “set foreign_key_checks=0; set sql_log…

Post: How Percona strives to remain neutral and independent

…the MySQL ecosystem are Percona customers, including hardware… cause conflict. The short version of the following lengthy …to requests from vendors who want to get to know us and vice versa. Sometimes we invite vendors to speak to… some insight into how we strive to remain independent and objective…

Post: MySQL for Hosting Providers - how do they manage ?

how do they manage to keep things up given MySQL gives you so little ways to really restrict how … our MySQL 5.1 GA or even something major on the roadmap for future MySQL versions. May …to crack down on users which cause a lot of load which causes a lot of unintentional abusers, but to get MySQL