About three months ago I announced ClickAider to become available to general public. And I think it is about the time to write about the progress we have with this project for those who interested. The project generates decent interest and we have about 3000 sites Registered over this time, which I consider decent number [...]
MySQL Consulting – Being on your own
February 20, 2007 By 7 Comments
About half a year have passed since me and Vadim have left MySQL to do MySQL Consulting on our own. Bunch of people have been wondering about our experiences so I thought it would be worth to share it here.
Wrong GROUP BY makes your queries fragile
September 6, 2006 By 7 Comments
This is probably well known issue for everyone having some MySQL experience or experience with any other SQL database. Still I see this problem in many production applications so it is worth to mention it, especially as it is connected to MySQL Performance. No it might not affect MySQL Performance per say but it limits [...]
Group commit and real fsync
May 3, 2006 By 9 Comments
During the recent months I’ve seen few cases of customers upgrading to MySQL 5.0 and having serious performance slow downs, up to 10 times in certain cases. What was the most surprising for them is the problem was hardware and even OS specific – it could show up with one OS version but not in [...]
