I’m sure you’ve seen it – you kick off an ALTER and you get the dreaded “waiting on metadata lock”. In many cases, this is expected if you are actively working on the table. However, I recently had a case with a client where the table being altered was rarely updated and very small […]
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Please join Percona’s Principal Support Engineer, Sveta Smirnova, as she presents MySQL Performance Schema in 1 hour on Thursday, March 21st, 2019, at 10:00 am PDT (UTC-7) / 1:00 pm EDT (UTC-4).
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MySQL 8.0 Performance Schema is a mature tool, used by humans and monitoring products. It was born in 2010 as “a feature […]
Parallel replication has been around for a few years now but is still not that commonly used. I had a customer where the master had a very large write workload. The slave could not keep up so I recommended to use parallel slave threads. But how can I measure if it really helps and […]
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Probably not well known but quite an important optimization was introduced in MySQL 5.6 – reduced overhead for “read only transactions”. While usually by a “transaction” we mean a query or a group of queries that change data, with transaction engines like InnoDB, every data read or write operation is a transaction.
Now, as a […]
Please join Percona’s Principal Support Escalation Specialist Sveta Smirnova as she presents Troubleshooting Best Practices: Monitoring the Production Database Without Killing Performance on Wednesday, June 27th at 11:00 AM PDT (UTC-7) / 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4).
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During the MySQL Troubleshooting webinar series, I covered many monitoring and logging tools such as:
General, slow, audit, binary, error […]
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In this blog, I will provide answers to the Q & A for the Performance Schema for MySQL Troubleshooting webinar.
First, I want to thank everybody for attending my March 1, 2018, webinar. The recording and slides for the webinar are available here. Below is the list of your questions that I was unable to answer […]
Please join Percona’s Principal Support Engineer, Sveta Smirnova, as she presents Performance Schema for MySQL Troubleshooting on Thursday, March 1, 2018, at 10:00 am PST (UTC-8) / 1:00 pm EST (UTC-5).
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Performance Schema, first introduced in version 5.5, is a really powerful tool. It is actively under development, and each new version provides even […]
In this blog post, we’ll look at how ClickHouse performs in a general analytical workload using the star schema benchmark test.
We have mentioned ClickHouse in some recent posts (ClickHouse: New Open Source Columnar Database, Column Store Database Benchmarks: MariaDB ColumnStore vs. Clickhouse vs. Apache Spark), where it showed excellent results. ClickHouse by itself seems […]
In a previous article, Ovais demonstrated how a DDL can render a table blocked from new queries. In another article, Valerii introduced performance_schema.metadata_locks, which is available in MySQL 5.7 and exposes metadata lock details. Given this information, here’s a quick way to troubleshoot metadata locks by creating a stored procedure that can:
Find out which […]
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Please join David Murphy on Tuesday, May 24 at 10 am PDT (UTC-7) as he presents “Understanding how your MongoDB schema affects scaling, and when to consider sharding for help.”
David will discuss the pros and cons of a few MongoDB schema design patterns on a stand-alone machine, and then will look at how sharding […]
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