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James Lawrie
James has spent over a decade in a variety of Linux and MySQL support roles, with a specific interest in reliability and performance through simplicity. He spends his free time riding motorbikes, lifting weights just to put them back down again, or studying Polish.

Setting innodb_open_files Higher Than open_files_limit

The settings of MySQL configuration variables have a fundamental impact on the performance of your database system. Sometimes it can be a little tricky to predict how changing one variable can affect others, and especially when dealing with cases like the one I’ll describe in this post, where the outcome is not very intuitive. So […]

Caveats With pt-table-checksum Using Row-Based Replication, and Replication Filters

As per the documentation, pt-table-checksum is a tool to perform online replication consistency checks by executing checksum queries on the master, which produces different results on replicas that are inconsistent with the master. The master and each slave insert checksums into the percona.checksums table, and these are later compared for differences. It’s fairly obvious that […]