by David Ducos | Sep 9, 2015 | Benchmarks, MySQL, Percona Software
There are cases where we need to implement MySQL partitioning, or at least test if it is an option to solve an issue. However, how are we able to test it when the table on our production environment has hundreds of millions of rows, several composite indexes and/or...
by David Ducos | Jun 15, 2015 | MySQL
We usually try to avoid subselects because sometimes they force the use of a temporary table and limits the use of indexes. But, when is good to use a subselect? This example was tested over table a (1310723 rows), b, c and d ( 5 rows each) and with MySQL version 5.5...
by David Ducos | Jan 21, 2015 | Benchmarks, Insight for DBAs, MySQL
Mydumper is known as the faster (much faster) mysqldump alternative. So, if you take a logical backup you will choose Mydumper instead of mysqldump. But what about the restore? Well, who needs to restore a logical backup? It takes ages! Even with Myloader. But this...