Initial impressions of InnoDB Fulltext
The much-anticipated, long-awaited, and possibly irrelevant (Sphinx? Lucene?) InnoDB Fulltext finally makes a semi-official appearance in MySQL 5.6.4! MySQL 5.6.4, […]
optimizer_switch in MariaDB
I’ve been spending some time looking through the new features of MariaDB 5.3, and one of the big items is […]
Learning to love the InnoDB Lock Monitor
A customer opened a support issue to ask about some help determining why they were seeing a lot of Lock […]
Come listen to us talk about MariaDB together with SpamExperts at Open Source Conference 2011 in Amsterdam.
We welcome everyone to Amsterdam where on Friday at 16:00 CET we will be giving a talk together with SpamExperts […]
Writing a MariaDB PAM Authentication Plugin
As you may know, since version 5.2.0 (released in April 2010) we support Pluggable Authentication. Using this feature one can […]
bash completion for mysql-test-run
For many years I was using tcsh, with lots of useful customizations, that were created during these years. Now I […]
Arch Linux users get MariaDB
If you happen to be using Arch Linux, you can now use MariaDB as it comes with it. Currently shipping 5.3.1 beta, it […]
How to produce a full stack trace for mysqld
The information here was adapted from the AskMonty Knowledgebase. There are two main parts to MariaDB and MySQL: The mysqld […]
Running MySQL or MariaDB from the source directory
One issue that developers often run into is needing or wanting to run a development version of MariaDB or MySQL […]
The Importance of Planning
Whenever I start a new project with MySQL or MariaDB I am tempted to jump in and start creating my […]