June 19, 2013

Comment: Sphinx search performance optimization: attribute-based filters

Fabian, – please note that, as stated in the article, this technique only works well for highly selective …

Comment: Performance Schema overhead

Great test and report Vadim! I think the performance schema will be a great addition to MySQL once it’s more established. Just starting with MySQL after retiring from handling oracle databases – now volunteering :) Thanks for sharing.

Post: Replication in MySQL 5.6: GTIDs benefits and limitations - Part 1

… Identifiers are one of the new features regarding replication in MySQL 5.6. They open up a lot of …or OFF on all servers, but not something in the middle. What if we try to reconfigure the master? …auto_position = 1; mysql> start slave; and let’s create a new table on the master: mysql> create table …

Post: Percona Server for MySQL 5.5.31-30.3 now available

in it, Percona Server 5.5.31-30.3 is now the current stable release in the 5.5 series. All of Percona’s… release can be found in the 5.5.31-30.3 milestone at Launchpad. New Features: Percona Server …This vulnerability would allow remote attacker to detect what user accounts exist on the server. This …

Post: Percona Server 5.1.69-14.7 now available: A drop in replacement for MySQL

in it. All of Percona’s software is open-source and free, all the details of the release can be found in the 5.1.69-14.7 milestone at Launchpad. Bugs Fixed: In Ubuntu Precise libmysqlclient18 package was chosen from the distribution’s… the oldest untracked log records are overwritten by the new log data. In some corner cases this could lead to assertion errors…

Post: The small improvements of MySQL 5.6: Duplicate Index Detection

… naming your keys with a consistent pattern. This new behavior was introduced in 5.6.7 with the closing of this bug (although… explains more in detail what the “will be disallowed in a future release” means. In MySQL 5.7 the checks will be stricter: in the default… definition in the same order. In other words, it checks for duplicate keys, but not redundant ones. What is the difference? Let’s see…

Post: Replication in MySQL 5.6: GTIDs benefits and limitations - Part 2

… post of a series of articles focused on MySQL 5.6 GTIDs. You can find part one here. Our… recover data from the crashed master, but that’s another story). In this case, you will have to promote the… slave will be the new master is to recover the missing events with mysqlbinlog. Let’s say that we want…

Post: Percona Server 5.6.11-60.3 first Release Candidate now available

in it, Percona Server 5.6.11-60.3 is the first RC release in the Percona Server 5.6 series. All of Percona’sin the 5.6.11-60.3 milestone at Launchpad. This release contains all the bug fixes from latest Percona Server 5.5 release (currently Percona Server 5.5.31-30.3). New Features…

Post: Experiences with the McAfee MySQL Audit Plugin

… post in our blog. Starting with 5.1, the new plugin API gives us more flexibility by allowing users to extend the server’s functionality with their own code, and this is what the McAffee plugin does. Installation and…”:”Connect”,”query”:”Connect”} In conclusion, the plugin API seems to be opening new possibilities of extending MySQL’s behavior in a way that, once…

Post: Choosing a MySQL HA Solution - Post-Webinar Q&A

… informative flowcharts in addition to the textual explanation. Q: What is my recommendation for MySQL 5.6? Is MHA ready for MySQL 5.6… customer that’s using 5.6), is that I question its readiness. There have been some unfortunate performance regressions compared to 5.5, such… and receive a response back in a reasonable (what is reasonable is determined by your environment), it’s a safe bet that MySQL…