by Peter Zaitsev | May 10, 2006 | Insight for DBAs
As you might know Innodb storage engines uses Fuzzy Checkpointing technique as part of it recovery strategy. It is very nice approach which means database never needs to “stall” to perform total modified pages flush but instead flushing of dirty pages...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 9, 2006 | Insight for Developers
Comments to my previous posts, especially this one by Gokhan inspired me to write a bit about descending indexes and about loose index scan, or what Gokhan calls “better range” support. None of these are actially related to Innodb tables in general –...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 4, 2006 | Insight for Developers
At Users Conference Heikki did good presentation about Innodb planned features. I did not see some of big and tiny wishes listed so I was making notes. Here is what I’d like to see Packed indexes. In many cases then difference in Performace with MyISAM and...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 3, 2006 | Insight for DBAs
During the recent months I’ve seen few cases of customers upgrading to MySQL 5.0 and having serious performance slow downs, up to 10 times in certain cases. What was the most surprising for them is the problem was hardware and even OS specific – it could...
by Peter Zaitsev | May 3, 2006 | Percona Events
Numerous talks at MySQL Users Conference and a lot of people asking me for my presentations motivated me to speed up launching of this site. I hope it will also motivate me to blog more frequently about performance as blog name implies. If you’re looking for...
