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2016


2010


Monitor MySQL restore progress with pv

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The pv command is one that I really enjoy using but it’s also one that I often forget about.

2009


2008


Best PHP and MySQL development book

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I finally remembered this book when someone asked me about how to get started with PHP and MySQL development.

Reducing locking delays in MySQL

··801 words·4 mins
Before getting started, it’s important to understand why MySQL uses locks.

Plesk and MySQL 5

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One of the questions I receive the most is: “What version of Plesk works with MySQL 5?

MySQL Replication: Wrap-up

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After a couple of weeks, my MySQL replication series has come to a close.

MySQL Replication: Slave Performance

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There’s a few final configuration options that may help the performance of your slave MySQL servers.

MySQL Replication: Upgrading the MySQL server

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If you want to make a DBA nervous, just let them know that they need to upgrade MySQL servers that are replicating in a production environment.

MySQL Replication: Breakdown

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On some occasions, MySQL replication can break down if an statement comes from the master that makes no sense to the slave.

MySQL Replication: Delayed Slaves

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In a perfect world, slaves will contain the same data as the master at all times.

MySQL Replication: Horizontal Data Partitioning

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If you have a master with multiple slaves, you can get some performance and save money on hardware by splitting data horizontally among your servers.

MySQL Replication: Backups & Data Integrity

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An often overlooked benefit of MySQL replication is the ability to make reliable backups without affecting the integrity of the MySQL data.

MySQL Replication: Redundancy

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Although performance is a much larger benefit of replication, it provides some redundancy for your application as well.

MySQL Replication: Performance

··269 words·2 mins
MySQL replication can increase performance by allowing developers to spread queries over two servers.

2007


Seven Step MySQL Replication

··133 words·1 min
MySQL replication may sound complicated, but it can be done easily.

Convert MyISAM tables to InnoDB

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If you want to convert a MyISAM table to InnoDB, the process is fairly easy, but you can do something extra to speed things up.

MySQL binary log rotation

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If you’ve run MySQL in a replication environment, or if you’ve enabled binary logging for transactional integrity, you know that the binary logs can grow rather quickly.

MySQL couldn’t find log file

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This error will pop up when binary logging is enabled, and someone thought it was a good idea to remove binary logs from the filesystem:

MySQL: Errcode: 24 when using LOCK TABLES

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While running into MySQL’s open files limit will manifest itself into various error messages, this is the standard one that you’ll receive during a mysqldump:

MySQL unauthenticated login pile-up

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Sometimes MySQL’s process list will fill with unauthenticated login entries that look like this:

Huge MySQLTuner overhaul

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I’ve been flooded with requests for MySQLTuner and I’ve answered them this weekend.

MySQL’s query cache explained

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An often misused and misunderstood aspect of MySQL is the query cache.

MySQL: Missing *.ibd files

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Using the InnoDB engine can be tricky due to the ibdata files’ rather untraditional behavior.

Obscure MySQL variable explained: max_seeks_for_key

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MySQL documentation can be awfully flaky - extremely verbose on issues that don’t require such verbosity, and then extremely terse on issues that need a lot of explanation.

Repair auto_increment in MySQL

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Table corruption in MySQL can often wreak havoc on the auto_increment fields.

MySQL time zone different from system time zone

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In some situations, the system time zone will be different than the one in MySQL, even though MySQL is set to use the system time zone.

Postgres process listing

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If you’re used to SHOW PROCESSLIST; or mysqladmin processlist in MySQL, you might be searching for this same functionality in postgresql.

Speeding up MySQL

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If there’s one question I get a lot, it would be “Hey, how can I speed up MySQL?

MySQL connections in sleep state

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On some servers, you may notice that MySQL is consuming CPU and memory resources when it’s not processing any queries.

Reset MySQL root password

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If you’ve forgotten the root password for a MySQL server, but you know the system root, you can reset the MySQL root password pretty easily.

Increase MySQL connection limit

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MySQL’s default configuration sets the maximum simultaneous connections to 100.

Securing MySQL

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If you work on enough servers, you discover that a lot of people put the security of their MySQL server on the back burner.

MySQL Row & Data Limits

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As most folks know, by default, MySQL limits the size of a MyISAM table at 4GB.