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 [...]
Commodity Hardware, Commodity Software and Commodity People
June 15, 2007 By 9 Comments
In the previous post I mentioned not all architectures and solutions work for Commodity People, and people seems to agree with me. Number of vendors would claim they are in Commodity Software or Hardware business but few would probably mention they are doing it for Commodity People, because few people would like to be called [...]
MySQL Stored Procedures problems and use practices
June 12, 2007 By 21 Comments
To be honest I’m not a big fan of Stored Procedures, At least not in the form they are currently implemented in MySQL 5.0 Only SQL as a Language Which is ancient ugly for algorithmic programming and slow. It is also forces you to use a lot of foreign constructs to “original” MySQL style – [...]
MySQL Server Memory Usage
May 17, 2006 By 21 Comments
Every so often people ask me the question how should they estimate memory consumption by MySQL Server in given configuration. What is the formula they could use. The reasons to worry about memory usage are quite understandable. If you configure MySQL Server so it uses too small amount of memory it will likey perform suboptimally. [...]
