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Databases MySQL

Part 2 – Simple lessons in improving scalability

Ronald Bradford
February 24, 2011

Given the popular response from my first lesson in improving scalability where I detailed simple ways to eliminate unnecessary SQL, let me share another common bottleneck with MySQL scalability that can be instantly overcome.

Databases FOSDEM 2010 InnoDB MySQL Uncategorized

10x Performance Improvements in MySQL – A Case Study

Ronald Bradford
February 7, 2010

The slides for my presentation at FOSDEM 2010 are now available online at slideshare . In this presentation I describe a successful client implementation with the result of 10x performance improvements.

Databases Drizzle General MySQL MySQL Proxy Open Source

SQL Analysis with MySQL Proxy – Part 2

Ronald Bradford
September 3, 2009

As I outlined in Part 1 MySQL Proxy can be one tool for performing SQL analysis. The impact with any monitoring is the art of monitoring will affect the results, in this case the performance.