There was small delay in our releases, part of this time we worked on features I mentioned before: – Moving InnoDB tables between servers – Improve InnoDB recovery time and rest time we played with performance trying to align XtraDB performance with MySQL 5.4 ® and also port all performance fixes to 5.0 tree. So [...]
How network can impact MySQL Operations ?
September 1, 2008 By 5 Comments
This week I’ve worked with the customer doing certain work during maintenance window which involved a lot of data copying around between MySQL boxes. We had prepared well and had measured how fast we could copy the data between servers of these kind connected to the same network, and we did the same thing before. [...]
How would you compress your MySQL Backup
June 5, 2008 By 29 Comments
Backing up MySQL Database most people compress them – which can make a good sense in terms of backup and recovery speed as well as space needed or be a serious bottleneck depending on circumstances and approach used. First I should mention this question mainly arises for medium and large size databases – for databases [...]
Large result sets vs. compression protocol
December 20, 2007 By 6 Comments
mysql_connect() function in PHP’s MySQL interface (which for reference maps to mysql_real_connect() function in MySQL C API) has a $client_flags parameter since PHP 4.3.0. This parameter is barely known and almost always overlooked but in some cases it could provide a nice boost to your application. There’s a number of different flags that can be [...]
MySQL Master-Master replication manager released
April 5, 2007 By 27 Comments
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 [...]
Using LVM for MySQL Backup and Replication Setup
August 21, 2006 By 53 Comments
If someone asks me about MySQL Backup advice my first question would be if they have LVM installed or have some systems with similar features set for other operation systems. Veritas File System can do it for Solaris. Most SAN systems would work as well. What is really needed is ability to create atomic snapshot [...]
