There have been a number of April fools jokes today so I thought I’d add my own to the list. While this sounds unexpected it’s actually no joke.
I just accepted a position with Oracle yesterday but I can’t say any more about the details until the MySQL users conference in a few weeks.
A special thanks to Lenz, Kaj & Giuseppe that championed everything to make it all happen, I really didn’t have to do anything other then accept.
In a CPU-bound database workload, regardless of price, would you scale-up or scale-new? What if price was the driving factor, would you scale-up or scale-new? I am using as a baseline the first available AWS Graviton2 processor for RDS (r6g).
Read moreAs part of using public datasets with my own Benchmarking Suite I wanted upsize a dataset for larger volume testing. I have always used the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES data_length and index_length columns as a sufficiently accurate measurement for actual disk space used.
Read moreDuring my setup of benchmarking I run a quick test-sysbench script to ensure my configuration is right before running an hour+ duration test. When pointing to a Readyset cache where I have cached the 5 queries used in the sysbench test, but I have not run any execution of the SQL, throughput went up 10x in 5 seconds.
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