Extending vmplot
Taking the work already done with vmplot.sh, a useful tool for MySQL performance tuning by Yves and Matt at BigDBAHead, and in true Open Source fashion I’ve enhanced and modified for my own purposes.
Read moreIdentifying 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.
Read moreTwo FREE MySQL Conferences Next Month
The annual MySQL Conference & Expo will be held in this year on April 20-23 in Santa Clara, California with a double twist. Not one, but *two* FREE additional MySQL Conferences are running at the same time, in the same hotel.
Read moreClassic quotes – Community One East
The CommunityOne East 2009 conference has finished up. There were a few classic statements made by the speakers during the day. They included. “We have a community reception, that’s a long way to say free beer.
Read morePriceless Monty
While working with Monty Widenius on a bug I reported in MariaDB I was surprised to not get an IRC response for a few minutes. When committed Monty can identify, create a workaround, and patch a problem in code before you have time to read all the responses he also types.
Read moreYour Code, Your Community, Your Cloud… Project Kenai
Following the opening keynote announcement about Kenai I ventured into a talk on Project Kenai . With today’s economy, the drive is towards efficiency is certainly a key consideration, it was quoted that dedicated hosting servers only run at 30% efficiency.
Read moreEverybody is talking About Clouds
From the opening keynote at CommunityOne East we begin with Everybody is talking About Clouds. It’s difficult to get a good definition, the opening cloud definition today was Software/Platform/Storage/Database/Infrastructure as a service.
Read moreCommunityOne East – An open developer conference
With an opening video from thru-you.com – an individual taking random you-tube video and producing video mashup’s, the CommunityOne East conference in New York, NY beings. The opening introduction was by Chief Sustainability Officer Dave Douglas.
Read moreHurting the little guy?
Today I come back from the dentist, if that wasn’t bad enough news, I get an email from Google AdWords titled Your Google AdWords Approval Status. In the email, all my AdWords campaigns are now disapproved, because of:
Read moreUnderstanding the various MySQL Products & Variants
The MySQL marketplace today is far more complex then simply choosing between a particular version of MySQL that Sun/MySQL produces. The MySQL server product in general is released under the GNU General Public License (GPL) v2 , however you should carefully review the MySQL Legal Policies {#s0rl} as a number of exceptions and different license agreements operate for companion tools such as MySQL Cluster, MySQL client libraries and documentation for example.
Read moreBeginner CSV Engine issues
I’ve just started using the CSV engine for a practical application and I’ve come across a few subtle and unexpected issues/limitations. First, you can’t create any columns in your CSV table nullable.
Read moreInfobright Community Edition(ICE) – It’s Free
The March NY MySQL Meetup featured a presentation from Infobright , a data warehousing solution built on the MySQL Product. With a pitch of “Simplicity, Scalability and low TCO” I became more impressed with the capability to delivery on these as the presentation proceeded.
Read moreIdentifying Bad Memory
I was having problems recently with a dedicated production server, that runs my MySQL Server and a number of websites. It’s most annoying when your system crashes without any reporting in /var/log/messages
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