Avatar Category: Database | 179 days ago |
I'm pleased to announce the release of Spider storage engine version 2.3(beta).Spider is a Storage Engine for database sharding.http://spiderformysql read more »
Avatar Category: Database | 179 days ago |
I often see people confuse different ways MySQL can use indexing, getting wrong ideas on what query performance they should expect. There are 3 mai read more »
Avatar Category: Database | 179 days ago |
In my recent post on the EU antitrust regulators' probe into the Oracle Sun merger I did not mention an important class of stakeholders: the MySQL-ba read more »
Avatar Category: Database | 179 days ago |
I have pushed more performance monitoring changes to the Facebook patch on Launchpad. This includes:Support for SHOW INNODB FILE STATUS t read more »
Avatar Category: Database | 179 days ago |
I think I have mentioned Picok before on my blog. This is a system that lets users arrange and configure a number of portlets in order to be able to read more »
Avatar Category: Database | 179 days ago |
In a previous post, I outlined a plan to port the Build-It-Blocks web site from MS SQL to MySQL.  I plan to run the Windows stack (Windows, .asp read more »
Avatar Category: Database | 179 days ago |
My travel is booked for OpenSQL camp in Portland on November 14 and 15. It should be a great event in my favorite city. It is also an opportunity to read more »
Avatar Category: Database | 179 days ago |
There’s a really important difference between a unique index (MySQL’s answer to a “unique constraint”) and a primary key in M read more »
Avatar Category: Database | 179 days ago |
On Friday afternoon, I went to give a presentation about MySQL advanced features at the Sardegna Ricerche technology park. The presentation included read more »
Avatar Category: Database | 179 days ago |
I saw Mark Callaghan’s post, and his graph showing miss rate as a function of cache size for InnoDB running MySQL.  He plots miss rate aga read more »
Avatar Category: Database | 178 days ago |
There have been a lot of systems I have looked at where the Created_tmp_disk_tables was very high. MySQL has good documentation on how it uses memory read more »
Avatar Category: Database | 178 days ago |
In line with my prediction from few days ago, Larry Ellison is announcing the new Database Machine — the new version is targeting OLTP workload read more »
Avatar Category: Database | 178 days ago |
The CodePlex Foundation was announced this week by Microsoft. Most reactions have been quite positive, but there has, of course, also been skepticis read more »
Avatar Category: Database | 178 days ago |
Here is a copy/paste example of the content from the new analytics tab that is in revision-177 of Kontrollbase (downloadable now) – it features read more »
Avatar Category: Database | 178 days ago |
I haven’t blogged in over a month now.  This is for a number of reasons.  Firstly I have been flat out with various activities.  Th read more »


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