… have a few questions: 1. Will the Percona Toolkit version just released work for regular community MySQL 5.5.23 or does it only work (or work better) with a Percona type version of MySQL – ie one…, to “upgrade“? 3. Thirdly, thanks for your help and information. I just made the MySQL, apache2 and php updates available to Debian Squeeze…
Post: Which Linux distribution for a MySQL database server? A specific point of view.
December 8, 2011 By 37 Comments
…MYSQL, upgrade MySQL, 10x start/stop MySQL, upgrade MySQL, downgrade MySQL, upgrade MySQL, install a security fix for something, 20x start/stop MySQL, upgrade MySQL, … . Restarting and changing MySQL…MySQL to shut down. The MySQL package scripts for Debian force MySQL…
Post: Percona-XtraDB version 9.1
March 14, 2010 By 16 Comments
…. New features in version 9.1: MySQL 5.1.43 is taken as the…mysql-tests: mysql mysql_upgrade ssl tests enabled rpl_killed_ddl and innodb-autoinc tests Percona-XtraDB obsoletes mysql-server packages, so upgrade…XtraDB-server Percona-XtraDB-client Debian platform. 1. Add Percona repository to the…
Post: Percona Server 5.1.52-12.3
December 13, 2010 By 2 Comments
… now based on MySQL 5.1.52. New Features Added: HandlerSocket plugin support has been added to all RPM and Debian packages. This is… disabled but it was enabled before” was sometimes reported after upgrading from MySQL 5.0. (Yasufumi Kinoyasu) Bug #643463 – Shutting down XtraDB could…
Post: XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.6-9
January 13, 2010 By 9 Comments
…://bugs.mysql.com/47621 more reasonable The builds for RedHat 4, 5 , Debian and Ubuntu are located on http://www.percona.com/mysql/xtradb/5.1… you install Percona-release repo the upgrade becomes as easy as yum update MySQL-server-percona MySQL-client-percona The latest source code…
Post: Percona Server and XtraBackup weekly news, March 5th
March 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
… week in Percona Server: For users who upgraded to Squeeze, the new version of Debian, we’re expecting to support Squeeze in our repositories on the next release based on MySQL 5.1.55, which…. We have decided to make innobackupex always back up the MySQL system database, even for partial backups; it contains data that…
Comment: Which Linux distribution for a MySQL database server? A specific point of view.
December 10, 2011 By 37 Comments
… Windows: There is no OS version of MySQL. And the MySQL Installer makes installing and upgrading very easy. I’ve used this only… available. On Debian/Ubuntu: MySQL 5.5 landed in Debian expirimental, and the default MySQL version has been 5.1 for some time. And indeed /etc/mysql/my.cnf…
Comment: Which Linux distribution for a MySQL database server? A specific point of view.
December 13, 2011 By 37 Comments
…. httpd.conf). Debian and Ubuntu increasingly use .d folders, meaning it’s really easy to automate configuration, deploys, upgrades and cloning without… packages are old. Ubuntu current (Oneiric) uses 5.1.58, only 2 patch releases behind MySQL‘s own packages, and that’s on… only packages they list are for MySQL 3.23!! The RHEL 6 marketing blurb mentions MySQL 5.1.47, but there’s no documentation…
Comment: MySQL Life Cycle. Your Feedback is needed.
November 21, 2011 By 6 Comments
… old MySQL version (the 5.1 series) is distribution integration. When all the other packages are compiled against 5.1, it’s sometimes difficult to upgrade… we switched from Percona 5.5 to Galera 5.1 for the synchronous replication (Galera 5.5 isn’t available packaged for Debian/Ubuntu). I don’t…
Comment: MySQL - to use or not to use
May 29, 2007 By 10 Comments
… how to do proper joins 
Mostly, the new features in MySQL 5.0 seem to be unnoticed by the public and I… upgrade script upgrade them, it seemed to be far slower and raised innodb tablespace size severely. The reasons for the upgrade where: – MySQL 4.1 has been out of life for a long time now, and no recent debian packages where provided, with 4.1…
