MySQL Users Conference 2009

MySQL Monitoring 101

At the 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo I presented to a full room on MySQL Monitoring 101 . This presentation focused on the following four goals. Know what to monitor Know how you can monitor Learn practices to diagnose problems Have a foundation of historical information MySQL Monitoring 101 View more presentations from Ronald Bradford.

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A change in the MySQL Binary distributions

Yesterday was the surprise announcement of MySQL 5.4 at the 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo. It was unfortunate that the supporting information was not that forthcoming on the MySQL website. I tried for several hours to try and download, but no mirrors were initially available.

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What’s happening with InnoDB

I have moved on to InnoDB: Innovative Technologies for Performance and Data Protection by Ken Jacobs at MySQL Conference and Expo . With a brief history lesson of inception from 1994, inclusion in MySQL in 2000 and acquired by Oracle in 2005.

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Search at Craigslist

I am now sitting in on MySQL and Search at Craigslist by Jeremy Zawodny at MySQL Users Conference Some of the technical difficulties that required addressing. High churn rate half life can be very short Growth Traffic Need to archive postings, e.

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MySQL Users Conference Opening Lines

Opening introduction from Colin Charles got us started. Karen Tegan Padir VP MySQL & Software Infrastructure was the opening keynote. She comes from a strong tech background and is passionate about open source, the communities and how to make a successful product.

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Where is the MySQL in Sun’s announcement

I find it surprising that in the official Sun Announcement there is no mention of MySQL for two reasons. Firstly, this was Sun largest single purchase of $1 billion only 12 months ago.

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A Drizzle update – Running version 2009.03.970-development

I’ve not looked at compiling and running Drizzle on my server for the past four weeks. Well overdue time for a check and see how it’s going. I saw in today’s planet.

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Identifying resource bottlenecks – CPU

One of the first steps when addressing a MySQL performance tuning problem is to perform a system audit of the physical hardware resources, then identify any obvious bottlenecks in these resources.

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