…MySQL version installed already, but if it’s not any of these releases, you will need to upgrade…mysql-5.0.51a.tar.gz | tar -x -v -f – mysql-5.0.51a/ mysql-5.0.51a/bdb/ mysql-5.0.51a/bdb/Makefile.in mysql-5.0.51a/bdb/btree/ mysql-5.0…
Post: More Gotchas with MySQL 5.0
Working on large upgrade of MySQL 4.1 running Innodb to MySQL 5.0 and doing oprofile analyzes we found very interesting issue of … much higher for MySQL 5.0 compared to MySQL 4.1 It was something like 2-3 for MySQL 4.1 vs 40-60 for MySQL 5.0 At the… Sleep shows much smaller value which is close in MySQL 5.0 and 4.1 Hopefully this issue will be fixed sooner or later…
Comment: Announcing Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.5.29-23.7.1
…5.5.29-23.7.1.387.rhel5.x86_64 mysql-server conflicts with Percona-XtraDB-Cluster-server-5.5.29-23.7.1…
Comment: Which Linux distribution for a MySQL database server? A specific point of view.
… Windows: There is no OS version of MySQL. And the MySQL Installer makes installing and upgrading very easy. I’ve used this only… system MySQL is easy to install. CentOS 5 ships with MySQL 5.0.77 which is really old. The 6.x releases ship with MySQL 5.1 which is also to old if you want to start something new. The MySQL 5.5 packages from Oracle…
Post: Rebuilding MySQL with same options
… am working on the system with custom compiled MySQL. How to upgrade to the new MySQL Options while preserving as much of original…’ ‘–with-mysqlfs’ ‘–with-low-memory’ ‘–with-comment=FreeBSD port: mysql-client-5.0.67_1‘ ‘–enable-thread-safe-client’ ‘–with-charset=cp1251′ ‘–with-collation…
Post: MySQL Server Upgrade
… a need for upgrade. Which Version did I upgrade to ? I Upgraded to MySQL 4.1.21. Why Did not I go with MySQL 5.0 ? There are three reasons. First there are number of changes in 5.0… on MySQL 5.0 than on 4.1 This is upgrade strategy I follow for this server which has mix of various third party PHP/MySQL…
Post: What's the recommended MySQL version?
… MySQL 5.0 and are now considering or executing upgrades to MySQL 5.5. So what’s the bottom line? For new applications, I’ve said use MySQL 5.5…’d even say use MySQL 5.6. For older applications running MySQL 5.0, I’d say upgrade to 5.5 directly, skipping over 5.1. MySQL 5.0 is really old now…
Post: Percona Server 5.1.58-12.9
… Server 5.1.58-12.9 on August 12, 2011 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.58, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.58-12.9 is now… those upgrading from MySQL 5.0 or 5.1 prior to version 5.1.24. A fix for a MySQL bug (#27877) introduced an incompatible change in collations in MySQL 5.1…
Post: Even minor upgrades are not always safe
… keep most of my systems on MySQL 4.1 still as they will not benefit from MySQL 5.0 features anyway while I do not… MySQL 5.0 (You never know where to expect problems, ie some people reported JOIN breaking by upgrading to 5.0). Yes this stuff is in upgrade… during 4.1 upgrade which is old stable version which is not as actively changed as 5.0 I upgraded MySQL 4.1.19 to 4.1.21…
Comment: What's the recommended MySQL version?
…/5.5/en/upgrading.html It says: “If you currently are running MySQL 5.0 and wish to upgrade to a newer series, upgrade to MySQL 5.1 first before upgrading to 5.5.” I thought problems may arise if you upgrade from 5.0 -> 5.5

