For those of you coming to the High Availability Deep Dive tutorial that Yves Trudeau and myself will be co-presenting next Tuesday, here's advance information which you will find useful. read more PlanetMySQL Voting: Vote UP / Vote DOWN
A big thanks to the Rocky Mountain Oracle User Group (RMOUG). They have just added MySQL as a new Special Interest Group (SIG). The first official meeting will be held at the Quarterly Education Workshop on May 18th. This will be at the Colorado...
MySQL performance is largely defined by keys and how efficiently queries can use them. As you scale, at certain point it isn t enough anymore to just have any indexes and still get a good performance in return. You have to really figure them out...
The purpose of technology is the make the life easier and more quality oriented. It is this virtue of technology which makes it evergreen and sustainable. The unique feature of technology is its innovative nature. Technology blogging is a way for...
PC World has written a post with this title(*) about the upcoming MySQL Connect conference and references the Percona Live conference and an official Percona comment. As this is not syndicated in Planet MySQL I encourage you to read the full...
Many people are aware that MySQL 5.5 added support for external authentication plugins , and that Oracle provides several commercial-licensed plugins that can help users leverage this functionality out-of-the-box (you can try these and other...
Indexes are tricky things. In my experience, indexes are added whenever SQL queries are too slow. This makes sense. However, sometimes these indexes were added without being thought through enough (I am guilty of this). Sometimes they were...
A very useful helper in your join toolbox can be a delete join . Even though it s not a special join type but a join used within DELETE statements, it s still worth mentioning. However, from time to...
Great speaker line up at SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database and Percona Live MySQL Conference & Expo If you haven t yet registered for next week s SkySQL & MariaDB: Solutions Day for the MySQL Database , do it today so you don...
I will be attending the MySQL Innovation Day. Don't just listen to a speech, come and interact with the engineers and the MySQL community! The event will be featuring multiple “lightning” talks, BOFs with the Oracle’s MySQL Engineers. If you...