Recently I had a customer ask me about loading two huge files into InnoDB with LOAD DATA INFILE. The goal was to load this data on many servers without putting it into the binary log. While this is generally a fast way to load data (especially if you disable unique key checks and foreign key [...]
MySQL Replication vs DRBD Battles
April 28, 2008 By 12 Comments
Well these days we see a lot of post for and against (more, more) using of MySQL and DRBD as a high availability practice. I personally think DRBD has its place but there are far more cases when other techniques would work much better for variety of reasons. First let me start with Florian’s comments [...]
MySQL Community Dinner
April 14, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Yesterday we started the conference early with MySQL Community Dinner which was quite a success with about 30-50 people showing up (hard to count as people come and go) even though it was conflicting with Silicon Valley MySQL Meetup and which at least prevented Jeremy and his team showing up. UPDATE: What I was thinking… [...]
HighLoad 2007 Review
October 6, 2007 By 1 Comment
Almost two weeks have passed since HighLoad 2007 conference in Moscow, Russia so I’m pretty late with feedback and my only excuse I was pretty busy to spare some time for it. Lets start with bright side. The conference had a lot of great sessions by experts in their field. A lot of top Russian [...]
What did we want Interns to do
October 5, 2007 By 1 Comment
About one month ago we posted a call for interns to work with us on various MySQL Performance related things. We got good number of replies and a lot of people wondered what tasks exactly we could offer as surely this sort of involvement should be fun and should teach you something.
MySQL on OSCON
July 26, 2007 By 13 Comments
Interesting enough this year people at OSCON do not show to much interest in the MySQL, and Databases for that reason. Our talk comparing performance of MySQL Storage Engines had probably 20-30 people, Monty’s talk on MySQL Source Code had about same number, and as Monty told me he never had so few people on [...]
MySQL and PostgreSQL SpecJAppServer benchmark results
July 25, 2007 By 13 Comments
Listening to Josh Berkus presentation on OSCON today I decided to take a closer look at SpecJAppServer benchmarks results which were published by PostgreSQL recently and which as Josh Puts it “This publication shows that a properly tuned PostgreSQL is not only as fast or faster than MySQL, but almost as fast as Oracle (since [...]
Top 5 Wishes for MySQL
June 29, 2007 By 10 Comments
About a week ago Marten send me email pointing to his article published on Jays Blog (Come on Marten, it is time for you to get your own blog). I should have replied much earlier but only found time to do that now. So here is my list 1. Be Pluggable Unlike many OpenSource projects [...]
MySQL – to use or not to use
May 28, 2007 By 10 Comments
Reading this slashdot article today and two CIO magazine articles linked from it. Such discussions started at right place at right time always attract a lot of flamers and can be fun to read. What hit me this time is quality of the articles in CIO magazine. If this is what managers suppose to use [...]
MySQL Storage Engines – PBXT
May 14, 2007 By 6 Comments
I promised to write little articles about all storage engines which sessions I attended during MySQL Users Conference but I did not get too far yet, too busy. So today it is time for PBXT. I was very interested about session about PBXT because this is storage engine does not target the same general purpose [...]
