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May 9, 2012
New distribution of random generator for sysbench – Zipf
Sysbench has three distribution for random numbers: uniform, special and gaussian. I mostly use uniform and special, and I feel [...]
May 8, 2012
Zero-downtime schema changes webinar recording
The recording and slides for my webinar on zero-downtime schema changes with MySQL are available now. Don’t miss Vadim’s webinar [...]
May 8, 2012
Webinar: MySQL and SSD
Just as a reminder – tomorrow, May-9, 2012, at 11am PDT I will be giving a free webinar “MySQL and [...]
May 8, 2012
Introducing Zend DBi as a MySQL Replacement on IBM i
You might have heard that Oracle made the decision not to support MySQL for IBM i any longer. This is [...]
May 7, 2012
Testing Fusion-io ioDrive – now with driver 3.1
In my previous post with results for Fusion-io ioDrive we saw some instability in results, I was pointed that it [...]
May 6, 2012
Load management Techniques for MySQL
One of the very frequent cases with performance problems with MySQL is what they happen every so often or certain [...]
May 4, 2012
Testing Virident FlashMAX 1400
I still continue to run benchmarks of different SSD cards. This time I show numbers for Virident FlashMAX 1400. This [...]
May 3, 2012
Testing Fusion-io ioDrive
Following my series of posts on testing different SSD, in my last post I mentioned that SATA SSD performance is [...]
May 3, 2012
Zero-Downtime Schema Changes In MySQL
The recording of yesterday’s webinar, as well as a PDF of my slide deck, is now available. You can watch [...]
May 2, 2012
Laine Campbell, Owner and CEO, PalominoDB
Tokutek’s ability to improve database performance brings an entirely new value proposition to MySQL.
May 2, 2012
Adrian Roston, CTO, Frequency
The ability to change schemas and indexes on the fly and no need to repair fragmented indexes has led to [...]
May 2, 2012
Tokutek and PalominoDB Partner to Bring Scale, Performance to Database Deployments
MySQL storage engine provider joins forces with leading database consultants to deliver support for growing number of MySQL and MariaDB [...]
May 1, 2012
Testing Intel SSD 520
Following my previous benchmarks of SATA SSD cards I got Intel SSD 520 240GB into my hands. In this post [...]
April 30, 2012
TokuDB v6.0: Download Available
TokuDB v6.0 is full of great improvements, like getting rid of slave lag, better compression, improved checkpointing, and support for [...]
April 26, 2012
Percona Server 5.1.62-13.3 released!
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.1.62-13.3 on April 25, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). [...]
April 26, 2012
Percona Server 5.5.22-25.2 released!
Percona is glad to announce the release of Percona Server 5.5.22-25.2 on April 25, 2012 (Downloads are available here and from the Percona Software Repositories). [...]
April 25, 2012
Testing STEC SSD MACH16 200GB SLC
Following my previous benchmark of Samsung 830, today I want to show results for STEC MACH16 SATA card, 200GB size, [...]
April 25, 2012
Testing Samsung SSD SATA 256GB 830 – not all SSD created equal
I personally like PCIe based Flash, but from a pricing point our customers are looking for cheaper alternatives. SATA SSD [...]
April 20, 2012
Joining many tables in MySQL – optimizer_search_depth
Working on customer case today I ran into interesting problem – query joining about 20 tables (thank you ORM by [...]
April 20, 2012
My Talk on Tuesday at IOUG COLLABORATE 12
Challenges of Big Databases with MySQL Many database management tasks become difficult as you move from millions of [...]