Setting optimizer search depth in MySQL
A customer of ours had an interesting problem regarding a query that was taking too long, around 55s. Looking at […]
MariaDB Crash Course
Ben Forta, the author of MySQL Crash Course and Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, has written what I believe is the […]
MariaDB 5.3.1 beta released!
It has arrived, a little over a month from the last beta release, is MariaDB 5.3.1. It is a bug-fix update […]
Client requested master to start replication from impossible position
If you run a replicated MySQL setup and have a master failure, you may see the following error in your […]
MySQL 5.5 Defaults may pose Performance Issues
We have seen a few instances where upgrades of MySQL 5.1 to 5.5 have resulted in poor performance when using […]
Early tests show MariaDB 5.3.0 having a performance speed-up against DBT-3 query set
Posted recently on the maria-developers mailing list, by Igor Babaev, Principal MariaDB developer at Monty Program is some interesting preliminary […]
Quick distribution update: openSUSE, Gentoo
If you’re on openSUSE, you definitely want to upgrade to the latest MariaDB release made on 19/07/2011. Previous security fix disabled XtraDB! […]
MariaDB 5.2.7 released!
Quick pointer that MariaDB 5.2.7 is now released. Highlights from the release notes: RHEL 5 RPMs (in addition to the CentOS […]
Mac OS X users can install MariaDB via Homebrew
The gist of it is, if you’ve installed Mac OS X and you use Homebrew, you’ll be pleased to note […]
Setting up MariaDB repositories for Debian/Ubuntu
If you run Debian or Ubuntu, and want a way to auto-generate a sources.list entry, then you should definitely look at: Setting up […]