Category Archives: Performance

OurSQL Episode 140: More Performance

Posted on May 17, 2013 by podcast

This week we explain performance_schema a bit deeper. In Ear Candy, we talk about max_binlog_cache_size and At the Movies presents Max Mether of SkySQL talking about “High Availability Solutions for MySQL”.
Events
DB Hangops – every other Wednesay at n… Continue reading →

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OurSQL Episode 139: Starting to Perform

Posted on May 13, 2013 by podcast

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 →

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OurSQL Episode 138: The Relevance of Tungsten

Posted on May 7, 2013 by podcast

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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OurSQL Episode 136: Digging for Information

Posted on April 22, 2013 by podcast

We discuss INFORMATION_SCHEMA with plenty of examples on useful queries. In this week’s Ear Candy, we talk about resident versus virtual memory on Linux, and in At the Movies has a video about MongoDB.
Events
DB Hangops in May will be Wed May 8th and 2… Continue reading →

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OurSQL Episode 131: Fresh Variables

Posted on March 15, 2013 by podcast

This week we discuss changed behavior of variables in MySQL 5.6. In ear candy we talk about a cloud-based service to play with SQL on different databases, and At the Movies is Stewart Smith of Percona talking about MySQL in the Cloud as a Service durin… Continue reading →

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OurSQL Episode 127: No Sweat Slaves

Posted on February 9, 2013 by podcast

This week we begin to discuss replication features in MySQL 5.6. Ear Candy is a LOAD DATA INFILE bug and using CSV to get beyond it; At the Movies is Suzan Bond talking about “The Art of Self-Sourcing”.
Events
Oracle’s doing more MySQL tech tours. Thes… Continue reading →

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OurSQL Episode 113: A JS API with JDD

Posted on October 29, 2012 by podcast

While we were at MySQL Connect last month, we interviewed long-time MySQL developer JD Duncan about integrating NoSQL and JavaScript with MySQL. His team developed the Node.js API for MySQL. This week, we present the interview we did. In Ear Candy, we … Continue reading →

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OurSQL Episode 108: Legendary Searches

Posted on September 21, 2012 by podcast

This week we present the Sphinx Storage Engine. Ear Candy is a gotcha about setting variables in the configuration file, and At the Movies is a video about MariaDB.
Events
MySQL Connect will be held in San Francisco on Saturday September 29th and Sunda… Continue reading →

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OurSQL Episode 96: Talking about Nothing

Posted on June 21, 2012 by podcast

This week we talk about NULLs and how to find the right data type.
Events
OSCon will be held Monday Jul 16th through Friday Jul 20th and has a data track. We did a podcast about OSCon, including a discount code!
MySQL Connect will be held in San Franci… Continue reading →

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OurSQL Episode 86: Speed Demon

Posted on April 9, 2012 by podcast

This week we talk with Martin Farach-Colton of Tokutek about what’s new with TokuDB.
News/Events/Feedback
Oracle announced the MySQL Connect Conference to be held in San Francisco on Saturday, September 29 and Sunday, September 30th. Call for papers an… Continue reading →

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