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MySQL University: Developing MySQL on Solaris/OpenSolaris
We have a MySQL University session later today, featuring me and Trond Norbye (who works on Memcached development). Ostensibly we are talking about some of the tools and environment details of developing on Solaris and OpenSolaris, but with a MySQ…
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Problems with the CHM Refman builds
As some of you have noticed (and reported) we are having trouble with the CHM builds we do of the various MySQL Reference Manuals. This is something that we are looking into, but the reasons and issues behind it are complex. One of the basic reaso…
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My Sessions at UC2009
I’m speaking at the User Conference this year, with a half-day tutorial and three further sessions. The running theme is performance, both in terms of the performance of your queries, and in terms of scaling up. Scale Up, Scale Out, and High Avail…
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DTrace in MySQL: Documentation and a MySQL University Session
DTrace has been something that I’ve been trying to get into the MySQL server for more than a year now. After a combination of my own patches and working with Mikael Ronstrom and Alexey Kopytov we finally have a suite of probes in MySQL 6.0.8. Bett…
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LOSUG Presentation Slides Now Available
My presentation at LOSUG on tuesday went down like a house on fire – I think it would be safe to say that the phrase for the evening was ‘It’s a cache!’. For that to make sense, you need to look at the slides, which are now available here. Attenda…
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LOSUG January: MySQL/DTrace and Memcached
Next Tuesday (27th Jan), I’ll be speaking at the London OpenSolaris User Group again. For those that follow the LOSUG meetings, we normally the third thursday of the month, but due to the overwhelming popularity of the event this month (more 100 r…
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Feeding Query Analyzer from DTrace
One of the new features in the new release of MySQL Enterprise Monitor is Query Analyzer. As the name suggests, the Query Analyzer provides information about the queries that are running on your server, the response times and row and byte statisti…
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MySQL on OpenSolaris Presentation/Transcript Now Available
As I mentioned earlier this week, I did a presentation on MySQL in OpenSolaris today. The presentation (audio and slides) is now viewable online (and downloadable), and you can also get hold of the transcript of the questions: here (or download). …
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MySQL University: MySQL and OpenSolaris
On Thursday, November 13, 2008 (14:00 UTC / 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET), I’ll be presenting a MySQL University session on MySQL and OpenSolaris. The presentation will be similar to the presentation I did at the London OpenSolaris Users Group in July, y…
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Compiling MySQL Workbench on Gentoo
The Workbench team have just announced the release of Workbench for Linux, including binary packages and source packages with instructions on how to build. I’m a Gentoo Linux user, so I prefer building from source, and you’ll need to emerge the fo…