May 21, 2013

Upgrading MySQL

Upgrading MySQL Server is a very interesting task as you can approach it with so much different “depth”. For some this is 15 minutes job for others it is many month projects. Why is that ? Performing MySQL upgrade two things should normally worry you. It is Regressions – functionality regressions when what you’ve been [...]

Paul McCullagh answers your questions about PBXT

Following on from our earlier announcement, Paul McCullagh has responded with the answers to your questions – as well as a few I gathered from other Percona folks, and attendees of OpenSQL Camp. Thank you Paul! What’s the “ideal” use case for the PBXT engine, and how does it compare in performance?  When would I [...]

MySQL 5.1 went to GA. Was it a good move ?

MySQL 5.1 release as “GA” seems to be the most controversial to date. It had very negative response from Monty, original MySQL Founder and controversial responses in community including another beating by Kevin Burton. There is also very interesting reading on MySQL 5.1 open bugs So how do I take it and where do I [...]

MySQL 5.1 Stability

I have been helping customer today to resolve his lockups in production by downgrading from MySQL 5.1.25 to 5.0 We have other customers (and our own projects as well) which run on MySQL 5.1 successfully but I can’t it is on par with MySQL 5.0 stability yet. This given customer was running MyISAM on FreeBSD [...]

ClickAider – Track Adsense Clicks and much more

Let me announce ClickAider – another projects we were working on in stealth mode for last several Months. ClickAider is Hosted Web Statistics system but it tracks Clicks rather than page views as most web counters do. And by clicks I mean not just clicks on the urls and images but clicks on many sophisticated [...]

Top 5 Wishes for MySQL

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

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 [...]