I can’t write I’m just back from MySQL Users Conference both because I’m still in USA visiting customers and because it has ended almost a week ago but I was too busy to write anything about it or post my presentations. This was my 5th MySQL Users Conference so I met a lot of good [...]
System size and Performance Optimization
February 27, 2007 By 2 Comments
Performance optimization is never ending story, you can virtually always find something else to optimize but while on generic system, not tuned by expert you often can get significant performance increase in the matter of hours further performance improvements become more and more time consuming and expensive and gains smaller. This observation does not only [...]
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.
Speaking at MySQL Users Conference 2007
January 16, 2007 By 2 Comments
Just got email from Jay today about two of my talks being accepted to MySQL Users Conference 2007 “MySQL Server Settings Tuning” and “MySQL Performance Cookbook”. This is great as MySQL Conferences are always fun and great way to get to know people and learn things about MySQL and connected areas. This will be my [...]
What to tune in MySQL Server after installation
September 29, 2006 By 118 Comments
My favorite question during Interview for people to work as MySQL DBAs or be involved with MySQL Performance in some way is to ask them what should be tuned in MySQL Server straight after installation, assuming it was installed with default settings. I’m surprised how many people fail to provide any reasonable answer to this [...]
Presentations
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This page is not updated anymore. For new presentations, please check the presentations page on our company website. We love speaking at conferences and other events. Please contact us if you’d like us to present at yours! We can also give internal presentations for your company or group. Sphinx search engine for RDBMS Egypt, December [...]
