May 24, 2013

Undo area size restriction needed for Innodb

As you can read from my Innodb Architecture and Performance Optimization presentation Innodb automatically manages undo area in system tablespace so you never need to care about it. I present it as positive feature reducing administration effort needed but it also can cause a troubles as it happened for me today: InnoDB: 11 transaction(s) which [...]

MySQL Crash Recovery

MySQL is known for its stability but as any other application it has bugs so it may crash sometime. Also operation system may be flawed, hardware has problems or simply power can go down which all mean similar things – MySQL Shutdown is unexpected and there could be various inconsistences. And this is not only [...]