Category Archives: Server Tuning

In this episode we discuss sharding and high availability with MySQL Fabric, including installation and configuration. Ear Candy is rolling out GTIDs with no restarting, and At the Movies is putting MySQL Fabric to use, including a live demo.
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This week we talk to Justin Swanhart about Shard-Query, a massively parallel processing query engine for MySQL. Ear candy is about mydumper, and At the Movies is “Common Deadly MySQL Development Mistakes.”
Events
Percona Live
DB Hangops – every other W… Continue reading →

This week we discuss fine-tuning Galera Cluster. In this week’s ear candy we talk about recent changes to mysqldump and locking; At the Movies presents “Using Amazon Web Services for MySQL at Scale”.
Events
DB Hangops – every other Wednesay at noon Pac… Continue reading →

This week we finish up talking about the Openark Kit for MySQL. Ear Candy is using both –master-data and –tab with mysqldump, and At the Movies features Robert Hodges of Continuent presenting Scalable MySQL Operation in the Cloud with Continuent Tung… Continue reading →

This week we discuss the basics of using the performance schema in MySQL 5.5 and 5.6. Ear Candy is about a temporal gotcha when using dates and times that do not exist, and At the Movies is David Stokes giving some useful for System Administrators who … Continue reading →

This week we discuss Tungsten and MySQL 5.6 replication with friend of the show, Giuseppe Maxia (aka the Data Charmer). Ear Candy is MariaDB’s Cassandra storage engine, and At the Movies is Giuseppe’s “MySQL 5.6 Replication – features and usability” video from Open Database Camp.

Events
DB Hangops in May will be Wed May 8th and 22nd.
Upcoming MySQL tech tours

Training
SkySQL Trainings
Tungsten University trainings

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