Row-based replication, MySQL 5.6 upgrades and temporal data types
Whither your rollback plan?MySQL 5.6 upgrades are in full swing these days and knowing how to safely upgrade from MySQL 5.5 to 5.6 is important. When upgrading a replication environment, it’s important...
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A technical WebScaleSQL review and comparison with Percona Server
The recent WebScaleSQL announcement has made quite a splash in the MySQL community over the last few weeks, and with a good reason. The collaboration between the major MySQL-at-scale users to develop a...
View ArticleUsing MySQL 5.6 Performance Schema in multi-tenant environments
Hosting a shared MySQL instance for your internal or external clients (“multi-tenant”) was always a challenge. Multi-tenants approach or a “schema-per-customer” approach is pretty common nowadays to...
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Q&A: Even More Deadly Mistakes of MySQL Development
On Wednesday I gave a presentation on “How to Avoid Even More Common (but Deadly) MySQL Development Mistakes” for Percona MySQL Webinars. If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording...
View ArticleWhat I learned while migrating a customer MySQL installation to Amazon RDS
Hi, I recently had the experience of assisting with a migration of a customer MySQL installation to Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service). Amazon RDS is a great platform for hosting your MySQL...
View ArticleA closer look at the MySQL ibdata1 disk space issue and big tables
A recurring and very common customer issue seen here at the Percona Support team involves how to make the ibdata1 file “shrink” within MySQL. I can only imagine there’s a degree of regret by some of...
View ArticleHow to log slow queries on Slave in MySQL 5.0 with pt-query-digest
Working as a Percona Support Engineer, every day we are seeing lots of issues related to MySQL replication. One very common issue is slave lagging. There are many reasons for slave lag but one common...
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A conversation with 5 Facebook MySQL gurus
Facebook, the undisputed king of online social networks, has 1.23 billion monthly active users collectively contributing to an ocean of data-intensive tasks – making the company one of the world’s top...
View ArticleParallel Query for MySQL with Shard-Query
While Shard-Query can work over multiple nodes, this blog post focuses on using Shard-Query with a single node. Shard-Query can add parallelism to queries which use partitioned tables. Very large...
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How to identify and cure MySQL replication slave lag
Here on the Percona MySQL Support team, we often see issues where a customer is complaining about replication delays – and many times the problem ends up being tied to MySQL replication slave lag. This...
View ArticleRow-based replication, MySQL 5.6 upgrades and temporal data types
Whither your rollback plan?MySQL 5.6 upgrades are in full swing these days and knowing how to safely upgrade from MySQL 5.5 to 5.6 is important. When upgrading a replication environment, it’s important...
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A technical WebScaleSQL review and comparison with Percona Server
The recent WebScaleSQL announcement has made quite a splash in the MySQL community over the last few weeks, and with a good reason. The collaboration between the major MySQL-at-scale users to develop a...
View ArticleUsing MySQL 5.6 Performance Schema in multi-tenant environments
Hosting a shared MySQL instance for your internal or external clients (“multi-tenant”) was always a challenge. Multi-tenants approach or a “schema-per-customer” approach is pretty common nowadays to...
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Q&A: Even More Deadly Mistakes of MySQL Development
On Wednesday I gave a presentation on “How to Avoid Even More Common (but Deadly) MySQL Development Mistakes” for Percona MySQL Webinars. If you missed it, you can still register to view the recording...
View ArticleWhat I learned while migrating a customer MySQL installation to Amazon RDS
Hi, I recently had the experience of assisting with a migration of a customer MySQL installation to Amazon RDS (Relational Database Service). Amazon RDS is a great platform for hosting your MySQL...
View ArticleA closer look at the MySQL ibdata1 disk space issue and big tables
A recurring and very common customer issue seen here at the Percona Support team involves how to make the ibdata1 file “shrink” within MySQL. I can only imagine there’s a degree of regret by some of...
View ArticleMulti-Valued INSERTs, AUTO_INCREMENT & Percona XtraDB Cluster
A common migration path from standalone MySQL/Percona Server to a Percona XtraDB Cluster (PXC) environment involves some measure of time where one node in the new cluster has been configured as a slave...
View ArticleGenerating test data from the mysql> prompt
There are a lot of tools that generate test data. Many of them have complex XML scripts or GUI interfaces that let you identify characteristics about the data. For testing query performance and many...
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OpenStack users shed light on Percona XtraDB Cluster deadlock issues
I was fortunate to attend an Ops discussion about databases at the OpenStack Summit Atlanta this past May as one of the panelists. The discussion was about deadlock issues OpenStack operators see with...
View ArticleMore then 1000 columns – get transactional with TokuDB
Recently I encountered a specific situation in which a customer was forced to stay with the MyISAM engine due to a legacy application using tables with over 1000 columns. Unfortunately InnoDB has a...
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