MySQL
Solid-State Drives Press
I read yesterday in The Wall Street Journal an interesting article in Personal Technology, “Solid-state drives challenge hard drives in speed, but not value”. While the title does sum up nothing new, the barrier to entry to embracing new technology is always cost, and early adopters may not have deeper pockets, but it’s also about being a alpha geek.
Read moreMySQL & Sun
I have been noticeably absent on my comments in this topic, something I was pinged about yet again today by another colleague. Did I have nothing to say? No. It’s just I’ve not been able to say much, or actually do anything in the past 7 days due to strong bought of the flu which has kept me in bed near 5 days straight (coincidently aligning perfectly with MySQL’s recent ACM.
Read moreCompiling MySQL 5.0.51 under Ubuntu 7.10
I’ve finally decided to work on a number of improvements in Instrumentation within the MySQL Server I’ve wanted for the first year, See What is the optimal thread specific buffer size?
Read moreWhat is the optimal thread specific buffer size?
So you want to know what join_buffer_size, sort_buffer_size, read_buffer_size and read_rnd_buffer_size values for your application should be? These MySQL thread specific buffers are variables I can never get right because there are insufficient metrics, instrumentation or even abstract details with the present MySQL Versions.
Read moreOptimal OS Partitions
What is the optimal OS partition layout for a database server? I’ve seen so many different configurations for OS partitions of recent time, none to my satisfaction. Historically, in Unix days 20 years agao, long before RAID and SAN’s all my experiences were for strongly defined partitions.
Read moreProcedure privileges
I came across a problem on site yesterday. In moving the development environment to a new server and creating more appropriate permissions for users (they were using ALL on *.*) I found that the Java application would crash with a NullPointerException.
Read moreMySQL under Mac OS/X 10.5
Time to install MySQL on my new MacBook . $ cd /opt $ wget http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686.tar.gz/from/http://mysql.mirrors.hoobly.com/ $ tar xvfz mysql-5.0.45-osx10.4-i686.tar.gz $ cd mysql-5.0.45-ox10.4-i686 $ scripts/mysql_install_db Installing MySQL system tables... 071129 22:10:48 [Warning] Setting lower_case_table_names=2 because file system for /opt/mysql-5.
Read moreMySQL at Oracle Open World
Yes, it may seem rather strange to the readers but MySQL has a booth at this week’s Oracle Open World 2007 and I’m here in San Francisco Wednesday and Thursday. If your in SF come in and say hi.
Read moreUsing MySQL Table Checksum
The MySQL Table Checksum , part of the MySQL Toolkit (having to be renamed soon ) is an invaluable community tool for use with MySQL. Most sites or installations of any volume will use MySQL Replication for one purpose or another, be it for read scalability, backups, testing, upgrading etc.
Read moreFunny command line option for the day
I needed to start mysql without privileges after a database restore today, and while confirming the correct option which was –skip-grant-tables I came across an option which made me laugh.
Read moreMySQL Conference Submissions have closed
If you didn’t get your proposal in for MySQL Conference 2008 , that’s too bad. I often wondered from past conferences why submissions were needed so early, like 5 months before.
Read moreNY Users Group – Analyzing MySQL Status and your SQL
This month I continued my Performance Analysis talks at the Local NY MySQL Meetup . Previous discussions can be found here . Our focus was a more in-depth look at gathering and reviewing MySQL Status and your applications SQL statements using MySQL Proxy .
Read moreLAST_INSERT_ID(expr) – The lesser known usage
I am of the attitude, the day you stop learning something is the day you die. I’m not prepared to induce MySQL into both sides of that equation, however some days it never ceases to amaze me what little thing I didn’t know about MySQL.
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