Is MySQL’s innodb_file_per_table slowing you down?
MySQL’s innodb_file_per_table is a wonderful thing – most of the time. Having every table use its own .ibd file allows you to easily reclaim space when dropping or truncating tables. But in some use...
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3 handy tools to remove problematic MySQL processes
DBAs often encounter situations where they need to kill queries to ensure there are no long-running queries on a MySQL server that would impact performance. Long-running queries can be the result of...
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5 free handy tools for monitoring and managing MySQL replication
MySQL Replication is very simple to set up. In this post I’ll discuss its importance and five handy tools for monitoring and managing MySQL replication.What is MySQL Replication? It’s the process of...
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Deep dive into MySQL’s innochecksum tool
One of our Percona Support customers recently reported that Percona XtraBackup failed with a page corruption error on an InnoDB table. The customer thought it was a problem or bug in the Percona...
View ArticleAuditing MySQL with McAfee and MongoDB
Greetings everyone! Let’s discuss a 3rd Party auditing solution to MySQL and how we can leverage MongoDB® to make sense out of all of that data.The McAfee MySQL Audit plugin does a great job of...
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Increasing Cloud Database Efficiency – Like Crows in a Closet
In Mo’ Data, Mo’ Problems, we explored the paradox that “Big Data” projects pose to organizations and how Tokutek is taking an innovative approach to solving those problems. In this post, we’re going...
View ArticleWhy base64-output=DECODE-ROWS does not print row events in MySQL binary logs
Lately I saw many cases when users specified option--base64-output=DECODE-ROWS to print out a statement representation of row events in MySQL binary logs just to get nothing. Reason for this is...
View ArticleMySQL replication primer with pt-table-checksum and pt-table-sync
MySQL replication is a process that allows you to easily maintain multiple copies of MySQL data by having them copied automatically from a master to a slave database.It’s essential to make sure the...
View ArticleOptimizing PXC Xtrabackup State Snapshot Transfer
State Snapshot Transfer (SST) at a glancePXC uses a protocol called State Snapshot Transfer to provision a node joining an existing cluster with all the data it needs to synchronize. This is analogous...
View ArticleAdvanced Query Tuning in MySQL 5.6 and MySQL 5.7 Webinar: Q&A
Thank you for attending my July 22 webinar titled “Advanced Query Tuning in MySQL 5.6 and 5.7” (my slides and a replay available here). As promised here is the list of questions and my answers (thank...
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