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Benchmarking Percona Server TokuDB vs InnoDB

May 7, 2013 By Vadim Tkachenko 32 Comments

After compiling Percona Server with TokuDB, of course I wanted to compare InnoDB performance vs TokuDB. I have a particular workload I’m interested in testing – it is an insert-intensive workload (which is TokuDB’s strong suit) with some roll-up aggregation, which should produce updates in-place (I will use INSERT .. ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE statements [...]

Filed Under: Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Server Tagged With: Benchmarking, InnoDB, Percona Server, TokuDB

Percona Toolkit 2.2.2 released; bug fixes include pt-heartbeat & pt-archiver

May 6, 2013 By Daniel Nichter 2 Comments

During the Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo 2013 the week before last, we quietly released Percona Toolkit 2.2.2 with a few bug fixes: pt-archiver –bulk-insert may corrupt data pt-heartbeat –utc –check always returns 0 pt-query-digest 2.2 prints unwanted debug info on tcpdump parsing errors pt-query-digest 2.2 prints too many string values Some tools don’t [...]

Filed Under: Percona Software, Percona Toolkit Tagged With: Daniel Nichter, Percona Toolkit, Percona Toolkit 2.2.2, pt-archiver, pt-heartbeat

Understanding the maximum number of columns in a MySQL table

April 8, 2013 By Stewart Smith 5 Comments

This post was initially going to be two sets of polls: “What is the maximum number of columns in MySQL?” and “What is the minimum maximum number of columns in MySQL?”. Before you read on, ponder those questions and come up with your own answers… and see if you’re right or can prove me wrong! [...]

Filed Under: MySQL Tagged With: columns, CREATE TABLE, ddl, FRM, limits, MySQL, MySQL table, Perl, UNIREG

InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6: Part 2, The Queries!

March 4, 2013 By Ernie Souhrada 7 Comments

This is part 2 in a 3 part series. In part 1, we took a quick look at some initial configuration of InnoDB full-text search and discovered a little bit of quirky behavior; here, we are going to run some queries and compare the result sets. Our hope is that the one of two things [...]

Filed Under: Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL Tagged With: Ernie Souhrada, FTS, FullText Search, InnoDB, MyISAM, MySQL 5.6

Implications of Metadata Locking Changes in MySQL 5.5

February 1, 2013 By Ovais Tariq 9 Comments

While most of the talk recently has mostly been around the new changes in MySQL 5.6 (and that is understandable), I have had lately some very interesting cases to deal with, with respect to the Metadata Locking related changes that were introduced in MySQL 5.5.3. It appears that the implications of Metadata Locking have not [...]

Filed Under: Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL Tagged With: alter table, ddl, metadata locking, query cache, table cache, transaction, Transaction isolation

Common MySQL traps webinar questions followup

January 17, 2013 By Stephane Combaudon 1 Comment

Thanks to all attendees of the webinar yesterday! If you missed it, you can watch the video recording. Here are some questions that remained unanswered due to time constraints. Q: Are there any technical considerations or best practice tips to have a replicated slave in the cloud, for example on Amazon AWS? Hardware resources are [...]

Filed Under: MySQL

Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC): what about GRA_*.log files ?

December 19, 2012 By Frederic Descamps Leave a Comment

How easy is it to identify and debug Percona XtraDB Cluster replication problem ? If you are using PXC, you may have already seen in your datadirectory several log files starting with GRA_ Those files correspond to a replication failure. That means the slave thread was not able to apply one transaction. For each of [...]

Filed Under: MySQL, Percona Software, XtraDB Cluster

Recovering from a bad UPDATE statement

October 19, 2012 By Michael Coburn 5 Comments

Did you just run an UPDATE against your 10 million row users table without a WHERE clause? Did you know that in MySQL 5.5 that sometimes you can recover from a bad UPDATE statement? This is possible if you are running in binlog_format=ROW ! Imagine this scenario:

CREATE TABLE `t1` (
 `c1` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
 `c2` varchar(10) NOT NULL,
 PRIMARY KEY (`c1`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB;
INSERT INTO `t1` (`c2`) VALUES ('michael'), ('peter'), ('aamina');

CREATE TABLE `t1` (

`c1` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,

`c2` varchar(10) NOT NULL,

PRIMARY KEY (`c1`)

) ENGINE=InnoDB;

INSERT INTO `t1` (`c2`) VALUES ('michael'), ('peter'), ('aamina');

We run an accidental UPDATE statement that [...]

Filed Under: Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL

How to obtain the “LES” (Last Executed Statement) from an Optimized Core Dump?

September 9, 2012 By Roel Van de Paar 9 Comments

Ever ran into a situation where you saw “some important variable you really needed to know about=<optimized out>” while debugging?

Filed Under: Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL

When is MIN(DATE) != MIN(DATE) ?

September 4, 2012 By Ernie Souhrada 5 Comments

Inspiration for this post is courtesy of a friend and former colleague of mine, Greg Youngblood, who pinged me last week with an interesting MySQL puzzle. He was running Percona Server 5.5.21 with a table structure that looks something like this:

CREATE TABLE foo (
 id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
 uid INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
 update_time DATETIME NOT NULL,
 ....
 INDEX `uid` (uid, update_time),
 INDEX `bar` (some_other_columns)
 ....
) ENGINE=InnoDB;

CREATE TABLE foo (

id INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,

uid INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL,

update_time DATETIME NOT NULL,

....

INDEX `uid` (uid, update_time),

INDEX `bar` (some_other_columns)

....

) ENGINE=InnoDB;

When he ran this query:

SELECT MIN(update_time) FROM foo WHERE update_time IS NOT NULL AND update_time <> '0000-00-00 00:00:00';

1	SELECT MIN(update_time) FROM foo WHERE update_time IS NOT NULL AND update_time <> '0000-00-00 00:00:00';

The result came back as 2012-06-22 10:28:16. [...]

Filed Under: Insight for DBAs, Insight for Developers, MySQL

Benchmarking Percona Server TokuDB vs InnoDB

Percona Toolkit 2.2.2 released; bug fixes include pt-heartbeat & pt-archiver

Understanding the maximum number of columns in a MySQL table

InnoDB Full-text Search in MySQL 5.6: Part 2, The Queries!

Implications of Metadata Locking Changes in MySQL 5.5

Common MySQL traps webinar questions followup

Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC): what about GRA_*.log files ?

Recovering from a bad UPDATE statement

How to obtain the “LES” (Last Executed Statement) from an Optimized Core Dump?

When is MIN(DATE) != MIN(DATE) ?

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