One command, which few people realize exists is SHOW OPEN TABLES - it allows you to examine what tables do you have open right now:PLAIN TEXT read more »
There may be a simple way to improve InnoDB performance on SMP servers. The benefit is not as great as that obtained by using the smpfix from Google read more »
Sun Microsystems today announced that Aftonbladet is now running the majority of its business on MySQL Enterprise™.Aftonbladet is t read more »
Late last week Open Query quietly launched its new subscription offering for MySQL support. Essentially, you commit to a number of hours per month fo read more »
There’s a lot of buzz around memcached. memcached is widely used, and has clients for many programming languages and platforms. TangentOrg have read more »
The Monolith Toolkit of scripts for DBA routines. 0.4.3 has been released. You can download it here: http://code.google.com/p/monolith-toolkit/ read more »
One thing we were guessing at with Massimo yesterday is, if you storelarge blobs as disk data, how much will they consume DataMemory andI read more »
MySQL has a problem: the project has become so important that many have forgotten the company at its heart. read more »
I have created a new tool, called xtstat, for analyzing the performance of the PBXT storage engine.The way it works is simple. PBXT now counts all ki read more »
Back in October last year a corporate accountability group called As You Sow attempted to persuade Oracle to detail its commitment to open source by read more »
I was working on a client’s server today to troubleshoot some variances between the result timing of some queries. Guess what I came across - t read more »
I’ve started an investigation of MySQL Backups using LVM. I’m working with Lenz’s mylvmbackup but I found it both used Perl and ne read more »
What does a MySQL Support Engineer do during his first hours of vacation? Yes, napping. After that, he goes on the web and tries out something new. T read more »
Since I got fed up with Solaris the other day, the T1000 is running Debian. This means that “I’ll care about Drizzle on Linux Sparc” read more »
I have seen a few people now ask about using MySQL's FULLTEXT indexing with asian languages such as Chinese, Japanese and Korean (herein referred to read more »


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