A few weeks ago I was asked to isolate some functionalities from Mark Callaghan’s MySQL patch bundle. They were extensions adding per-user and per-table accounting to the database, accessible with a new set of commands such as SHOW TABLE_STATISTICS, SHOW INDEX_STATISTICS and SHOW USER_STATISTICS. The first two can interest anyone to periodically check what data [...]
MySQL – to use or not to use
Reading this slashdot article today and two CIO magazine articles linked from it. Such discussions started at right place at right time always attract a lot of flamers and can be fun to read. What hit me this time is quality of the articles in CIO magazine. If this is what managers suppose to use [...]
MySQL Master-Master replication manager released
The MySQL Master-Master replication (often in active-passive mode) is popular pattern used by many companies using MySQL for scale out. Most of the companies would have some internal scripts to handle things as automatic fallback and slave cloning but no Open Source solution was made available. Few months ago we were asked to implement such [...]

