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April 26, 2013 By Alexey Kopytov Leave a Comment

Since my first post on MySQL transaction descriptors optimization introduced in Percona Server 5.5.30-30.2 and a followup by Dimitri Kravchuk, we have received a large number of questions on why the benchmark results in both posts look rather different. We were curious as well, so we tried to answer that question by retrying benchmarks on [...]

Filed Under: Benchmarks, MySQL Tagged With: MySQL transaction descriptors, Optimization

Repair MySQL 5.6 GTID replication by injecting empty transactions

March 26, 2013 By Miguel Angel Nieto 1 Comment

In a previous post I explained how to repair MySQL 5.6 GTID replication using two different methods. I didn’t mention the famous SET GLOBAL SQL_SLAVE_SKIP_COUNTER = n for a simple reason, it doesn’t work anymore if you are using MySQL GTID. Then the question is: Is there any easy way to skip a single transaction? [...]

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MySQL 5.6.10 Optimizer Limitations: Index Condition Pushdown

March 14, 2013 By Jaime Crespo 2 Comments

While preparing the webinar I will deliver this Friday, I ran into a quite interesting (although not very impacting) optimizer issue: a “SELECT *” taking half the time to execute than the same “SELECT one_indexed_column” query in MySQL 5.6.10. This turned into a really nice exercise for checking the performance and inner workings of one [...]

Filed Under: Events and Announcements, Insight for Developers, MySQL Tagged With: Index Condition Pushdown, Jaime Crespo, MySQL 5.6.10

MySQL 5.6 vs MySQL 5.5 and the Star Schema Benchmark

March 11, 2013 By Justin Swanhart 7 Comments

So far most of the benchmarks posted about MySQL 5.6 use the sysbench OLTP workload. I wanted to test a set of queries which, unlike sysbench, utilize joins. I also wanted an easily reproducible set of data which is more rich than the simple sysbench table. The Star Schema Benchmark (SSB) seems ideal for this. [...]

Filed Under: MySQL Tagged With: InnoDB plugin, Justin Swanhart, MySQL 5.5, MySQL 5.6, Star Schema Benchmark (SSB), sysbench

InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6 (part 1)

February 26, 2013 By Ernie Souhrada 1 Comment

I’ve never been a very big fan of MyISAM; I would argue that in most situations, any possible advantages to using MyISAM are far outweighed by the potential disadvantages and the strengths of InnoDB. However, up until MySQL 5.6, MyISAM was the only storage engine with support for full-text search (FTS). And I’ve encountered many [...]

Filed Under: Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL Tagged With: Ernie Souhrada, FTS, FullText Search, InnoDB, MyISAM, MySQL 5.6

The Optimization That (Often) Isn’t: Index Merge Intersection

December 14, 2012 By Ernie Souhrada 6 Comments

Prior to version 5.0, MySQL could only use one index per table in a given query without any exceptions; folks that didn’t understand this limitation would often have tables with lots of single-column indexes on columns which commonly appeared in their WHERE clauses, and they’d wonder why the EXPLAIN plan for a given SELECT would [...]

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Full table scan vs full index scan performance

November 23, 2012 By Stephane Combaudon 15 Comments

Earlier this week, Cédric blogged about how easy we can get confused between a covering index and a full index scan in the EXPLAIN output. While a covering index (seen with EXPLAIN as Extra: Using index) is a very interesting performance optimization, a full index scan (type: index) is according to the documentation the 2nd [...]

Filed Under: Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL Tagged With: indexining, MySQL Index Scan

How to find MySQL queries worth optimizing ?

September 11, 2012 By Peter Zaitsev 6 Comments

One question I often get is how one can find out queries which should be optimized. By looking at pt-query-digest report it is easy to find slow queries or queries which cause the large portion of the load on the system but how do we know whenever there is any possibility to make this query [...]

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When is MIN(DATE) != MIN(DATE) ?

September 4, 2012 By Ernie Souhrada 5 Comments

Inspiration for this post is courtesy of a friend and former colleague of mine, Greg Youngblood, who pinged me last week with an interesting MySQL puzzle. He was running Percona Server 5.5.21 with a table structure that looks something like this:

CREATE TABLE foo (
 id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
 uid INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
 update_time DATETIME NOT NULL,
 ....
 INDEX `uid` (uid, update_time),
 INDEX `bar` (some_other_columns)
 ....
) ENGINE=InnoDB;

CREATE TABLE foo (

id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,

uid INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,

update_time DATETIME NOT NULL,

....

INDEX `uid` (uid, update_time),

INDEX `bar` (some_other_columns)

....

) ENGINE=InnoDB;

When he ran this query:

SELECT MIN(update_time) FROM foo WHERE update_time IS NOT NULL AND update_time <> '0000-00-00 00:00:00';

1	SELECT MIN(update_time) FROM foo WHERE update_time IS NOT NULL AND update_time <> '0000-00-00 00:00:00';

The result came back as 2012-06-22 10:28:16. [...]

Filed Under: Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL

Visualization tools for pt-query-digest tables

August 31, 2012 By Roman Vynar 6 Comments

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 [...]

Filed Under: Insight for DBAs, MySQL Tagged With: pt-query-digest

More on MySQL transaction descriptors optimization

Repair MySQL 5.6 GTID replication by injecting empty transactions

MySQL 5.6.10 Optimizer Limitations: Index Condition Pushdown

MySQL 5.6 vs MySQL 5.5 and the Star Schema Benchmark

InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6 (part 1)

The Optimization That (Often) Isn’t: Index Merge Intersection

Full table scan vs full index scan performance

How to find MySQL queries worth optimizing ?

When is MIN(DATE) != MIN(DATE) ?

Visualization tools for pt-query-digest tables

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