June 18, 2013

Comment: Percona Server 5.1.69-14.7 now available: A drop in replacement for MySQL

Why does the mysql client says it’s 5.1.70? Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or g. Your MySQL connection id is 138 Server version: 5.1.70-rel14.7-log Percona Server (GPL), 14.7, Revision 572

Comment: How to change innodb_log_file_size safely

@Question: Did your innodb engine startup correctly? Seems to me that you can see any innodb dbs because of this.

Comment: Performance Schema overhead

Great test and report Vadim! I think the performance schema will be a great addition to MySQL once it’s more established. Just starting with MySQL after retiring from handling oracle databases – now volunteering :) Thanks for sharing.

Comment: Sphinx search performance optimization: attribute-based filters

we use sphinx to our website where we have about 1200 tables each with … described here, but the search results have gone from milliseconds to more than 43 seconds

Comment: Minimizing Downtime from Lengthy AWS Outages

Please post your experience on Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) on AWS. I would help us since we want to explore this option.

Post: How to fix your PRM cluster when upgrading to RHEL/CentOS 6.4

to 6.4, upgrading your distribution to 6.4 may break your cluster. In this post I will explain you how to fix your cluster in case it breaks after a distribution upgrade that implies an update of pacemaker from 1.1.7 to… system to 6.4 on one server… NOTE: In production you should put the cluster in maintenance mode before the update, see bellow how to

Post: Implementing SchemaSpy in your MySQL environment

to create this once so that the  command line is shorter and neater.  In my case here is the properties file in use for my… column names in tables, and tables with the string NULL instead of the actual SQL NULL…tools you use and how do they compare with SchemaSpy?  Feel free to answer via the comments…

Post: How people are using MySQL... from 1 user to 100 million (upcoming conference talk)

… conference in Budapest, Hungary. My presentation will provide an overview of some possible deployment and scaling scenarios, when it makes sense to use… see in our consulting practice. Please let me know if you plan on attending – and also feel free to post questions in advance…

Post: MySQL Query Patterns, Optimized - Webinar questions followup

…correlated, derived tables, scalar subqueries) and we saw in my presentation that sometimes these perform worse …writing a SQL query optimizer and see how easy it is?  ;-)  Generative grammars like SQL can … recognizes, and which are left to the developer to refactor manually.  There could also …

Post: Replication in MySQL 5.6: GTIDs benefits and limitations - Part 2

… of using GTIDs is to have much easier failover than with file-based replication. We will see how to change the replication topology… file in the datadir). So the last executed event is 219be3a9-c3ae-11e2-b985-0800272864ba:1. How can I instruct mysqlbinlog to start… mysqlbinlog? There is a solution of course, but very poor in my opinion: look for the binlog file/position of the last…