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Databases MySQL

Reasons to use MySQL 5.5 Presentation

Ronald Bradford
June 28, 2011

I recently gave a presentation at the New York Effective MySQL Meetup on the new features of, and some of the compelling reasons to upgrade to MySQL 5.5. There are also a number of new MySQL variables that can have a dramatic effect on performance in a highly transactional environment, innodb_buffer_pool_instances and innodb_purge_threads are just two to consider.

Databases MySQL

Five reasons to upgrade to MySQL 5.5

Ronald Bradford
December 15, 2010

Updated Nov 2011. Check out my Reasons to use MySQL 5.5 Presentation for more in-depth information about installing/configuring and using MySQL 5.5 I have been looking forward to the general availability (GA) release of MySQL 5.

Databases MySQL

Unexpected mysqld crashing in 5.5

Ronald Bradford
November 22, 2010

An update of MySQL from 5.0 to 5.5 on CentOS 5.5 64bit has not resulted in a good experience. The mysqld process would then crash every few minutes with the following message.