… require a lot less thought from users: upgrade to a release series and keep upgrading as we fix bugs; we won’t…
Post: Percona Toolkit 2.1 with New Online Schema Change Tool
April 5, 2012 By 9 Comments
…. Percona Toolkit is the essential suite of administrative tools for MySQL. With this release we introduce a new version of pt… tool, one of the most painful things anyone experiences with MySQL is significantly alleviated. If you’ve ever delayed a project… to verify replication Peter will discuss using it to verify upgrades I’ll show how to use it to forecast scalability…
Post: Percona Server 5.5.21-25.1 released!
March 29, 2012 By 8 Comments
… available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.5.21, including all the bug fixes in it… milestone at Launchpad. We are doing another release based on MySQL 5.5.21 as we have a couple of important…. Bug fixed #962940 (Laurynas Biveinis). Fixed MySQL upstream bug #64160 that was causing issues on upgrade to 5.5.20 and 5…
Comment: Percona Toolkit 2.1 with New Online Schema Change Tool
April 22, 2012 By 9 Comments
…) with a Percona type version of MySQL – ie one of Percona’s “improved” versions of MySQL (that is what Percona does, isn… that the same title as the O’Reilly “High Performance MySQL” by Jeremy Zawodny & Derek Balling (which I own, but is… a previous version, to “upgrade“? 3. Thirdly, thanks for your help and information. I just made the MySQL, apache2 and php updates…
Comment: MariaDB 5.3 is released as GA!
March 6, 2012 By 17 Comments
… decided to just keep rolling out the latest version of MySQL for the moment and look to the possibility of switching… process public) instead for the longer run. Upgrading to the latest version of MySQL is fine from a general perspective, but Oracle… why distributions like to pin release versions.) Given MariaDB is MySQL with patches, I’m not sure quite how much that…
Comment: Percona Server 5.5.21-25.1 released!
March 31, 2012 By 8 Comments
… of Percona Server will incorporate this important bugfix: http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=61209 We’ve been waiting for… be fixed for almost a year now so we can upgrade to 5.5. As Peter says, for us this is…
Post: Upgrading MySQL
January 5, 2010 By 23 Comments
Upgrading MySQL Server is a very interesting task as you can approach … MySQL version upgrade can have both of these issues. It gets larger as you have a larger leap in minor version – Upgrade of MySQL… you upgrade to different major version, especially if you skip over one. MySQL 5.0 to 5.1 upgrade is a lot safer upgrade…
Post: Which Linux distribution for a MySQL database server? A specific point of view.
December 8, 2011 By 37 Comments
…, start/stop 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 version might… prepared for downtime, stopped MySQL and… error – text editor has not been properly installed, so you cannot upgrade MySQL either until the problem…
Post: MySQL Installation and upgrade scripts.
May 21, 2007 By 3 Comments
… version make sure you upgrade to latest current version at first. Ie upgrade to recent MySQL 5.0 before upgrading to MySQL 5.1 – this makes sure you will be at somewhat tested upgrade/downgrade path… or MySQL install script but simply I find no mysql user after upgrade. MySQL Does not start after upgrade This is simply result of upgrade. Obviously…
Post: The story of one MySQL Upgrade
October 8, 2010 By 8 Comments
… worked on upgrading MySQL from one of very early MySQL 5.0 versions to Percona Server 5.1. This was a classical upgrade scenario… upgrade are very different depending on the upgrade version – upgrade from MySQL 4.1 to 5.0 had a lot of different issues than upgrade from MySQL 5.0…
