June 19, 2013

Post: How Percona does a MySQL Performance Audit

…_64 GNU/Linux [percona@db1 ~]$ cat /etc/*release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Tikanga) From this, I can… what the MySQL version is, and I check (with the ‘file’ command) whether /usr/libexec/mysqld is a 64-bit build, if I’m on a 64-bit OS. Examining MySQL configuration Then I’ll look…

Comment: Slow Query Log analyzes tools

… same tree as MySQL Enterprise. To help those who would like to use MySQL Community version but does not like to build binaries we decided to publish our build for MySQL 5.0.33 Community release. This build was done using “Generic Linux RPM” spec file on CentOS 4.4 (RHEL compatible) x86_64 Server 14M MySQL-server…

Post: When would you use SAN with MySQL ?

… should use SAN with MySQL, which is especially popular among people got used to Oracle or other Enterprise database systems which are… somewhat typical for Enterprise managing a lot of relatively small MySQL installations or managed hosting provider. For large MySQL web MySQL installations using Sharding… IO or space than we can get from 6-8 build in drives… so lets do SAN is the story here…

Comment: Should we proclaim MySQL Community Edition Dead ?

Mark – Jeremy does not build all these packages, just redistributes them. MySQL Server is happily still licensed as GPL which allows redistribution… and buy MySQL Enterprise as Tom states in the first comment. Thing we should not forget – Sun is commercial company and MySQL group has to make money. Though in my opinion MySQL stretches its accelerated growth practices beyond…

Comment: Looking for MySQL 4.0 Support post EOL ?

Sheeri is correct, this is more about making builds for the wider community. You *can* request support for EOL …, it’s just a custom contract, and not part of “MySQL Enterprise” on the whole. And then, when you’ve gotten this… on number of incidents for the period of the contract. MySQL Support has many people intimately familiar with versions as far…

Comment: CentOS Comes with free build of MySQL Enterprise ?

[...] posted that CentOS comes with a build of MySQL Enterprise. It should really be clarified that CentOS itself, comes with MySQL Community, [...]

Comment: MySQL Quality of old and new features

Jefferey, MySQL is GPL so you can get build from the same sources as MySQL Enterprise for example here: http://www.dorsalsource.org/ For…

Comment: Reading MySQL Enterprise future...

Peter, I think there is not so much more options to cut. Well, Sun can build MySQL Enterprise Server – Startup Edition without csv, example and federated storage engines.

Comment: Where to get recent MySQL version ?

So, what does this mean for those of us who aren’t MySQL Enterprise customers but like the speed boost we get from ICC built binaries, we have to wait months for bug fixes, or hope someone with access to the ICC compiler starts doing community builds?

Comment: Reading MySQL Enterprise future...

…-GPL build. OEMs can see it in their OEM download location if they have a license for it, just as other Enterprise… but includes support subscriptions and the excellent Enterprise Manager software. 5.1 Pro has MySQL support, Enterprise Manager and the various 5.1… Community server as the full thing and ignore the MySQL support and Enterprise Manager to sell your own services instead. Describing it…