June 20, 2013

Comment: How much overhead is caused by on disk temporary tables

GROUP BY implementation “Later one of the clients performing group bys on tens of millions of rows complained and so ORDER BYGROUP BY. So, we get a SQL92 compliant full group by clause. Unfortunately, the description column is included first in the group by clause….and MySQL

Post: Quickly finding unused indexes (and estimating their size)

… stats from several servers In the case of this client, they had a master and several slaves taking …group by t.table_schema, t.table_name, i.index_name; Now I can query this view to see my indexes: mysql… can take quite some time. All the normal tricks and tips about doing a long blocking schema …

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

… information about LVM devices, volume groups, and logical volumes. At this …MySQL server. I mean, let’s just assume the physical hardware and the machine setup is fine, and the client… slow /path/to/slow.log By default, this outputs the top …We share all sorts of dirty tricks and neat ideas with each …