Overview Profiling, analyzing and then fixing queries is likely the most oft-repeated part of a job of a DBA and one that keeps evolving, as new features are added to the application new queries pop up that need to be analyzed and fixed. And there are not too many tools out there that can make [...]
Identifying the load with the help of pt-query-digest and Percona Server
December 29, 2011 By 3 Comments
InnoDB: look after fragmentation
November 5, 2009 By 12 Comments
One problem made me puzzled for couple hours, but it was really interesting to figure out what’s going on. So let me introduce problem at first. The table is
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | CREATE TABLE `c` ( `tracker_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL, `username` char(20) character set latin1 collate latin1_bin NOT NULL, `time_id` date NOT NULL, `block_id` int(10) unsigned default NULL, PRIMARY KEY (`tracker_id`,`username`,`time_id`), KEY `block_id` (`block_id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB |
Table has 11864696 rows and takes Data_length: 698,351,616 bytes on disk The problem is that after restoring table from mysqldump, the query that scans data [...]
The new cool MySQL patch has landed! Check your queries performance!
October 31, 2007 By 16 Comments
Microslow patch is used by many DBAs and developers to accurately time their queries and to catch those which run less than a second as they can also be a performance killer for a busy application. Recently I have started the development of an updated version of the patch. The basic idea is the same [...]
