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Outrun The Lions Baron Schwartz Percona Inc (via OfferPal Media) FaceApps Developer Conference Las Vegas, NV July 12, 2008 -2- Who Am I? • Lead author of High Performance MySQL 2nd edition • Author of Maatkit and innotop • Consulting team lead at Percona – We are full-stack performance experts • Background in e-commerce, retail, search engine advertising and marketing • Degree in Computer S...

Syntax: EXPLAIN <SELECT STATEMENT>; TYPE system Table has 1 value (a system table) const Evaluates to 1 row using PRIMARY or UNIQUE KEY eq_ref 1 row from this tables for each set of rows from previous tables. KEY columns compared with = RESULTS id Identifier select_type See SELECT_TYPE table Table name/alias type JOINtype (see TYPE) possible_keys Possible indexes MySQL could use key Index act...

Presented by, MySQL AB® & O’Reilly Media, Inc. Batched Key Access: a significant Speed-up for Join Queries Igor Babaev igor@mysql.com Getting Started BKA: Inroduction Where to find the stuff (source, binaries)? http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Batched_Key_ Access Cloned from mysql-6.0-ndb that is currently in sync with mysql-6.0 What is a “significant speed-up” for join queries? Depends on:  data...

Scaling out MySQL: Hardware today and tomorrow Jeremy Cole, Eric Bergen {jeremy,eric}@provenscaling.com Overview • A look at hardware out there today • What’s important for MySQL? The big questions What about 64-bit? • Make absolutely everything 64-bit • Every server you buy now will have 64-bit CPUs • Except in a few corner cases, it won’t hurt, but may not help • For MySQL servers, it w...

Scaling MySQL and Java in High Write Throughput Environments How we built Spinn3r 1 What is Spinn3r? • • • • • • Licensed weblog crawler 500k posts per hour (RSS+HTML) 3.5TB of content 10 months of blog archives 3B documents 80Mb /s - 24/7 2 Hardware • ~40 servers – Quad Core – 8GB memory – Gigabit ethernet – Dual SATA (software RAID 0) • Moving to SSD 3 Write Throughput • 90% write, ...

Radically Simple Backup & Recovery for Live MySQL Chander Kant CEO Zmanda www.zmanda.com MySQL Partner of the Year ! Zmanda : Open Source Backup Customer Facing Data (CFD) • As important as CRM and Financial Data – For many companies loss of CFD implies catastrophe – Lost revenues, lost customers and lost reputation • Today’s Data Protection Challenge • Break neck rate of change • MySQL is ...

MySQL Sandbox Multiple independent servers in one host Presented by, MySQL AB® & O’Reilly Media, Inc. Giuseppe Maxia Community Team Leader http://sf.net/projects/mysql-sandbox/ This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. Agenda        Overview The hard way The easy way - one server in < 10 seconds Replication in 15 seconds Multiple i...

Issue Four - Spring 2008

Full Text Search in MySQL 5.1 New Features and HowTo Alexander Rubin Senior Consultant, MySQL AB Copyright 2006 MySQL AB The World’s Most Popular Open Source Database 1 Full Text search • Natural and popular way to search for information • Easy to use: enter key words and get what you need Copyright 2006 MySQL AB The World’s Most Popular Open Source Database 2 In this presentation ...

New subquery optimizations Presented by, MySQL AB® & O’Reilly Media, Inc. in MySQL 6.0 Sergey Petrunia sergefp@mysql.com Background: subquery processing before 6.0  FROM subqueries are pre-materialized (early)  Scalar-context subqueries use straightforward evaluation  Predicate subqueries  May perform two kinds of rewrites  Then use straightforward evaluation  Originally implemented in...

Best Practices for Database Administrators Sheeri K. Cabral Database Administrator The Pythian Group, www.pythian.com cabral@pythian.com 2008 MySQL User Conference & Expo MIRE ● Make It Really Easy Automate Document As for your brain...... ● ● ● Use your brain for CPU, not storage! (use a request tracking system!) Monitoring Basics ● Graph (Cacti) Alert (Nagios) Check your checks ● ...

InnoDB Plugin for MySQL - Early Adopter Release User's Guide InnoDB Plugin for MySQL - Early Adopter Release User's Guide This is the User's Guide for InnoDB Plugin 1.0 for MySQL 5.1 - Early Adopter Release, generated on Apr 15 2008 (rev 159). Copyright © 2008 Innobase Oy. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2008 Oracle. All rights reserved. Abstract Starting with version 5.1, MySQL AB has prom...

Memcached memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Who? • Facebook • Yahoo • Amazon • LiveJournal • Mixi • ... Why? (aka why would I...)‫‏‬ LiveJournal • Origin of memcached • 30G of cache. Terabytes of data • Writes to DB based on reads from ...

(beginner/intermediate, Sheeri Kritzer)

(intermediate/advanced, Jay Pipes)

So You've Inherited a MySQL Instance. . . Sheeri Kritzer Boston MySQL Users Group Presented Monday, February 13th, 2006 awfief@gmail.com http://www.sheeri.com Overview ➲ OS Permissions Permissions checklist/worksheet ➲ MySQL ➲ Security Document ➲ The ➲ Use buck stops here company standards Configurations ➲ my.cnf ➲ ~/.my.cnf, .mytop ➲ .mysql_history ➲ --print-defaults The OS Lev...

M y SQL Magazine Fall 2007 Issue 2 MySQL powering the future What will you find here? News, articles on both administration and devlopment, feedback from the users. Simply anything relating to MySQL!! Welcome to MySQL Magazine. This is the magazine for the community of MySQL database administrators and developers who use MySQL on a daily basis to provide some of the best infrastructure avai...

MySQL Proxy Making MySQL more flexible Jan Kneschke jan@mysql.com     MySQL Proxy ● proxy­servers forward requests to backen ds  and can – transform, handle or block them ● released under the GPL – see http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Pr oxy ● developed as part of the Enterprise Tool s since  February 2007     Design Decisions ● goal is to be transparent to the applica tion layer s...

M y SQL Magazine Summer 2007 Issue 1 How Secure Is Your Server? What will you find here? News, articles on both administration and devlopment, feedback from the users. Simply anything relating to MySQL!! Welcome to MySQL Magazine. This is the magazine for the community of MySQL database administrators and developers who use MySQL on a daily basis to provide some of the best infrastructure a...

Partitioning in MySQL 5.1 and onwards Dr. Mikael Ronström, Senior Software Architect MySQL AB mikael@mysql.com Copyright 2005 MySQL AB The World’s Most Popular Open Source Database 1 Why Partitioning? • For Large Tables: • • • • • • ”Divide and Conquer” Easier maintenance Performance improvement for queries Control data placement on disk devices Control data placement on Cluster nodes Prepa...