https://ronaldbradford.com/tags/5.5/ Recent content in 5.5 on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:30:00 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/reasons-to-use-mysql-5-5-presentation-2011-06-28/ Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:30:00 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/reasons-to-use-mysql-5-5-presentation-2011-06-28/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/five-reasons-to-upgrade-to-mysql-5-5-2010-12-15/ Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:40:36 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/five-reasons-to-upgrade-to-mysql-5-5-2010-12-15/ 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. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/unexpected-mysqld-crashing-in-5-5-2010-11-22/ Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:41:25 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/unexpected-mysqld-crashing-in-5-5-2010-11-22/ 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.