When you process MySQL slow query logs using pt-query-digest you can store samples of each query into query_review table and historical values for review trend analysis into query_review_history table. But it could be difficult to easily browse those tables without a good GUI tool. For the visual browsing of tables created by pt-query-digest you may [...]
How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit
November 24, 2008 By 17 Comments
Our customers or prospective customers often ask us how we do a performance audit (it’s our most popular service). I thought I should write a blog post that will both answer their question, so I can just reply “read all about it at this URL” and share our methodology with readers a little bit. This [...]
MySQL Public Worklog and Community Focus
March 25, 2008 By 6 Comments
MySQL made some tasks from their internal task tracking tool – Worklog a while back. I just have not look at it besides checking Maria related tasks until couple of days ago as Jay announced new Forge going live. Check it out – there are a lot of nice ideas out where. I can find [...]
MySQL Query Cache WhiteSpace and comments
March 20, 2008 By 9 Comments
Commenting on my previous post on MySQL Query Cache Gerry pokes me as I’m all wrong and both comments and whitespace are fixed in MySQL 5.0. This was not what I remember seeing in production so I decided to do some tests on the matter:
MySQL MyISAM Active Active Clustering – looking for trouble ?
March 15, 2007 By 4 Comments
Reading last few days worth of planet MySQL and commenting on some entries as you can see. The post by Oli catches my attention. There is also PDF with more details available Oli is saying you can use MySQL with Active Active Clustering and MyISAM tables if you follow certain rules like enabling external locking, [...]
Database problems in MySQL/PHP Applications
August 11, 2006 By 13 Comments
Article about database design problems is being discussed by Kristian. Both article itself and responce cause mixed feellings so I decided it is worth commenting: 1. Using mysql_* functions directly This is probably bad but I do not like solutions proposed by original article ether. PEAR is slow as well as other complex conectors. I [...]
Innodb Fuzzy checkpointing woes
May 10, 2006 By Leave a Comment
As you might know Innodb storage engines uses Fuzzy Checkpointing technique as part of it recovery strategy. It is very nice approach which means database never needs to “stall” to perform total modified pages flush but instead flushing of dirty pages happens gradually in small chunks so database load is very even. This works great [...]
