Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.68 -14.6 on April 19, 2013 (downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). Based on MySQL 5.1.68, including all the bug fixes in it, Percona Server 5.1.68-14.6, a MySQL alternative, is now the current stable release in the 5.1 series. All of Percona‘s software is open source and free, all the [...]
Unexpected problem with triggers and mysqldump
February 11, 2013 By 8 Comments
Some time ago, I had to convert all tables of a database from MyISAM to InnoDB on a new server. The plan was to take a logical dump on the master, exporting separately the schema and the data, then edit the CREATE TABLE statements to ensure all tables are created with InnoDB, and reload everything [...]
An argument for not using mysqldump
November 8, 2010 By 26 Comments
I have a 5G mysqldump which takes 30 minutes to restore from backup. That means that when the database reaches 50G, it should take 30×10=5 hours to restore. Right? Wrong.
