InnoDB information
SHOW ENGINE INNODB STATUS shows current InnoDB status, including deadlocks. I was thinking a while back it would be nice to have a log of all deadlocks. Well, I got my answer:...
View ArticleGood Ideas Implemented Poorly
Please share good ideas implemented poorly you have seen. For example, in the past 24 hours I have come across 2 such beasts: 1) A company doing vertical scaling based on username. Unsurprisingly, they...
View ArticleOption and Variable Matrix
SHOW STATUS and SHOW VARIABLES are very useful features for analyzing server performance, server setup and general debugging. Many times, there are items applicable to a scenario in both lists....
View ArticleStatistics Gathering Script
I posted some code to the MySQL Forge at: http://forge.mysql.com/snippets/view.php?id=52 Basically I gather some stats on my webservers in a very crude way. It runs a bunch of commands on the...
View ArticleVirtualization and MySQL
So, the article at: http://mysql-dba-journey.blogspot.com/2007/11/mysql-and-vmware.html says: Don’t get seduced to the dark side unless you understand all the issues. And that’s wonderful and all,...
View ArticleTop 10 MySQL Best Practices
So, O’Reilly’s ONLamp.com has published the “Top 10 MySQL Best Practices” at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/07/11/MySQLtips.html. Sadly, I find most “best practice” list do not thoroughly...
View ArticleLog Buffer #72 — a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Welcome to the 72nd edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Oracle OpenWorld (OOW) is over, and Lucas Jellema of the AMIS Technology blog notes the OOW Content Catalog has been...
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