June 19, 2013

Comment: Percona Server 5.1.69-14.7 now available: A drop in replacement for MySQL

… I have to export databases from mysql and import them in Percona server or can I use mysql data directory? 2. What’s the advantage of using Percona server over MySQL? 3. I am using CentOS for my servers but i…

Comment: Upgrading MySQL

…/mysql/ cd /usr/local/mysql/ ps aux|grep mysql kill -9 18230 18266 ps aux|grep mysql bin/mysqld_safe –user=mysql & bin/mysql_upgrade –socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock mysql

Comment: Replication in MySQL 5.6: GTIDs benefits and limitations - Part 1

You can replicate from MySQL 5.6 to MariaDB 10.0 or vice versa. You … MariaDB compatible without merging all of the crap that is MySQL 5.6 global transaction ID, I would very much like…

Comment: Replication in MySQL 5.6: GTIDs benefits and limitations - Part 1

… major hurdle in the future for people wanting to switch from MySQL 5.6 to MariaDB 10.

Comment: Open Source, the MySQL market (and TokuDB in particular)

… where a migration was virtually a rewrite. (Today moving from MySQL to/from Oracle/MSSql/etc is even more painful.) And much of…

Post: Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.31-30.3 now available

…support for Fusion-io devices patch from MariaDB. This feature adds atomic …log enabled and then restarted with the binary log disabled, Crash-Resistant Replication could overwrite the relay log info log…libdbd-mysql-perl package. Fixed by adding the package dependency. Bug fixed #1003776. Rebuilding

Post: Percona Server 5.1.69-14.7 now available: A drop in replacement for MySQL

…. A drop in replacement for MySQL, downloads are available  here and from the Percona Software Repositories. Based on MySQL 5.1.69, this…. XtraDB changed page tracking used to hold the log system mutex for the log reads needlessly, potentially limiting performance on write-intensive…

Post: Migrating between MySQL schemas with Percona Xtrabackup

… by copying the dirty tablespace files while streaming the redo-logs to ensure that all transactions are also captured.  The –apply… schema into the target database:  mysql orig_old < /tmp/orig.schema.sql Ensure innodb_import_table_from_xtrabackup = 1  (dynamic variable) Prepare…

Post: Percona MySQL University @Portland next Monday!

We’re less than a week away from Percona MySQL University at Portland, Oregon next Monday, June 17. The latest …, Percona Xtrabackup and Performance and Improvements and new Features in MySQL 5.6 Garrick Peterson, a member of Percona’s RemoteDBA…… :)   So register now! Please also join the Portland MySQL Meetup group for more MySQL-focused events in Portland If you love the…

Post: How people are using MySQL... from 1 user to 100 million (upcoming conference talk)

MySQL can be deployed in several ways, and that means you … its own caveats, but you can also gain a lot from write set replication. If the application gets really popular, sooner…