June 20, 2013

Post: What technologies are you running alongside MySQL?

In many environments MySQL is not the only technology used to store in-process … frequently, especially with large-scale or complicated applications, we use MySQL alongside other technologies for certain tasks of reporting, caching as… technologies for data storage and processing do you use alongside MySQL in your environment? Please feel free to elaborate in the…

Post: Call for papers: Percona Live London

… step up and volunteer to present your unique insights into MySQL and MySQL-related technologies either as a keynote, tutorial or breakout… sponsors. This is the showcase event for Europe’s growing MySQL community of developers, business managers, technology evangelists, DBAs and entrepreneurs…

Post: MySQL Webinar: Percona XtraDB Cluster Operations, June 26

Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) was released over a year ago and since then there has been tremendous interest and adoption.  There’s plenty of talks that explain the fundamentals of PXC, but we’re starting to reach a threshold where it’s easier to find folks with PXC in production and such the need …

Comment: Percona Server 5.6.11-60.3 first Release Candidate now available

does/will Percona 5.6 include handlersocket? I assume it’s including the memcache nosql interface in mysql 5.6, correct?

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: ZFS on Linux and MySQL

… 4GB? Also wondering if any one is using ZFS and MySQL to thin clone databases meaning using a snapshot of a…. Would be interested if someone wanted to contribute on the MySQL side. Interesting that on Wikipedia Data Virtualization is talked about… the source is not seen for example aggregating Oracle, SQL Server and MySQL into one source that the user or application sees…

Post: Migrating between MySQL schemas with Percona Xtrabackup

…_old Load the schema into the target database:  mysql orig_old < /tmp/orig.schema.sql Ensure innodb_import_table_from_xtrabackup = 1… for steps 7 and 10 in two scripts: mysql -N -B <<'EOF' > discard-ddl.sql SELECT CONCAT(‘ALTER TABLE `’, table_name, ‘` DISCARD… WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA=’orig’ AND ENGINE=’InnoDB’; EOF mysql -N -B <<'EOF' > import-ddl.sql SELECT CONCAT(‘ALTER TABLE `’, table_name, ‘` IMPORT…

Post: Implementing SchemaSpy in your MySQL environment

… Percona Server 5.6.10 sandbox: description=MySQL driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver connectionSpec=jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1:5610/schemaspy driverPath=/usr/share/java/mysql-connector-java.jar Example Schema…, and tables with the string NULL instead of the actual SQL NULL value. This is basically a quick sanity check of…

Post: MySQL Query Patterns, Optimized - Webinar questions followup

On Friday I gave a presentation on “MySQL Query Patterns, Optimized” for Percona MySQL Webinars.  If you missed it, you can still…: Q: Can you compare the use of subqueries/multiple joins vs. multiple queries (e.g. temp tables)? For performance, it’s… grammars like SQL can produce an infinite variety of  queries.  The query optimizer analyzes queries for common patterns the MySQL designers know…

Post: Percona MySQL University @Portland next Monday!

…, Percona Xtrabackup and Performance and Improvements and new Features in MySQL 5.6 Garrick Peterson, a member of Percona’s RemoteDBA… replication integrity And finally, Andrew Ferlitsch will share with how MySQL can be used to provide access to government data. The…… :)   So register now! Please also join the Portland MySQL Meetup group for more MySQL-focused events in Portland If you love the…