Announcing MariaDB 5.5.21 Beta
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.21-beta. MariaDB 5.5.21 is the first Beta release in the 5.5 series […]
Screencast: MariaDB GIS demo
Here’s another MariaDB screencast, this time highlighting some of the GIS functionality in MariaDB. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpDm_8L1oyI (I recommend watching it in full screen […]
MariaDB 5.5.20-alpha
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.20-alpha. MariaDB 5.5.20 is the first Alpha release in the 5.5 series. […]
Benchmarking MariaDB-5.3.4
Last weekend Vadim from Percona published his MariaDB 5.3.4 benchmark results. As the new benchmark guy at Monty Program I […]
Consistent transactions between storage engines
You may not realize it, but in MariaDB 5.2 and earlier and in MySQL up to version 5.5, START TRANSACTION […]
Screencast: Installing MariaDB
Instead of the usual text-heavy blog posts that appear here, I thought it would be fun to mix things up […]
FOSDEM MySQL and Friends Devroom 2012 Changes
As many of you know, the schedule had been set for FOSDEM. Giuseppe had posted the full scehdule here: http://datacharmer.blogspot.com/2012/01/mysql-and-friends-schedule-at-fosdem.html […]
MariaDB: Improve Security with Two-Step Verification
In this primer I will show how to improve the security of your MariaDB installation by using two-step verification and […]
rows_examined UNION Handler% … ?!?
A customer recently asked if I could help clarify the relationship between rows_examined (in the slow query log) and the […]
Demystifying identifier mapping
While tinkering with some things the other day, I noticed that if I create a table named “ñ”, MySQL creates […]