May 21, 2013

How we work on High Performance MySQL Second Edition

Baron have been updating you a lot about chapter by chapter progress so I should not repeat it, instead I thought it would be a good idea to write a bit about how we work on the book. Generally, quite similar to the previous book this is long process, which is probably what happens when [...]

Managing Slave Lag with MySQL Replication

The question I often get is how far MySQL may fall behind and how to keep replication from lagging. The lag you will see will vary a lot from application to the application and from load to load. Plus what is the most important within same application the lag will likely have spikes – most [...]

Top 5 MySQL wishes – what is next ?

I’ve read through Top 5 (or more) wishes posted by number of MySQL employees as well as by a lot of community members. It was great to see so wide coverage as people with different backgrounds wish different things – Developers have some wishes to ease development process, MySQL DBAs would like stuff related to [...]