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OurSQL Episode 142: Great Views

podcast — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 09:07:33 -0700

This week we discuss MySQL Views. Ear Candy is GRANTs and replication and At the Movies is a presentation by Giuseppe Maxia talking about "Creating Multi-Master clusters with Tungsten Replicator".

Events
DB Hangops - every other Wednesay at noon Pacific time

Upcoming MySQL events

Training
SkySQL Trainings

Tungsten University trainings

OurSQL Episode 141: Performance Enhancements

podcast — Sat, 25 May 2013 18:28:39 -0700

This week we talk about server and status variables relating to the performance schema and the ps_helper tool. Ear Candy is an sql_mode bug, and At the Movies is a performance_schema and ps_helper webinar.

Performance Schema Variables
MySQL 5.5 performance schema variables
MySQL 5.6 performance schema variables - many options are auto-sized

SHOW GLOBAL VARIABLES LIKE 'performance_schema%';


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OurSQL Episode 140: More Performance
podcast — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:20:13 -0700
This week we explain performance_schema a bit deeper. In Ear Candy, we talk about max_binlog_cache_size and At the Movies presents Max Mether of SkySQL talking about "High Availability Solutions for MySQL".
Events

DB Hangops - every other Wednesay at noon Pacific time

Upcoming MySQL events
Training

SkySQL Trainings

Tungsten University trainings
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OurSQL Episode 139: Starting to Perform
podcast — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:31:06 -0700
This week we discuss the basics of using the performance schema in MySQL 5.5 and 5.6. Ear Candy is about a temporal gotcha when using dates and times that do not exist, and At the Movies is David Stokes giving some useful for System Administrators who also are in a DBA role.
News

Continuent's Tungsten Replicator is now completely open source

TokuDB is now open source
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OurSQL Episode 138: The Relevance of Tungsten
podcast — Tue, 07 May 2013 06:15:18 -0700
This week we discuss Tungsten and MySQL 5.6 replication with friend of the show, Giuseppe Maxia (aka the Data Charmer). Ear Candy is MariaDB's Cassandra storage engine, and At the Movies is Giuseppe's "MySQL 5.6 Replication – features and usability" video from Open Database Camp.
Events

DB Hangops in May will be Wed May 8th and 22nd.

Upcoming MySQL tech tours
Training

SkySQL Trainings

Tungsten University trainings
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OurSQL Episode 133: MySQL on Auto-Tune
podcast — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 17:02:37 -0700
This week, we talk about variables with changed default values in MySQL 5.6. Ear Candy is the pt-config-diff tool and At the Movies is Tim Callaghan of Tokutek talking about Fractal Trees.
Changed Defaults in MySQL 5.6
Percona's article about default variable differences in MySQL 5.5 and MySQL 5.6
MySQL 5.6 manual page about changes to server defaults in MySQL 5.6.
back_log
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OurSQL Episode 134: When Binary's Not Binary
podcast — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:52:18 -0700
This week, we take a lighter topic and talk about the many uses and meanings of "binary". Ear candy is a but about SET GLOBAL SQL_BIN_LOG, and At the Movies is  Ariel Weisberg of VoltDB explaining sharding and elastic clustering.
Events

DBA Hangops - an every-other-week hangout for dba's (right now it's mostly MySQL) - The DB hangops sessions for April and May are April 10th, April 24th, May 8th and May 22nd.
Upcoming MySQL tech tours
Call for Papers for MySQL Connect is open! The call closes Friday, April 12th.
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OurSQL Episode 137: Playing in the Sandbox
podcast — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:50:24 -0700
This week we talk to Giuseppe Maxia about MySQL Sandbox. Ear Candy is about table_open_cache, Open_tables and Opened_tables, and At the Movies features MariaDB.
MySQL Sandbox

MySQL Sandbox
Examples:

MariaDB slave of a master:

make sandbox mysql-tarball --master
make sandbox mariadb-tarball --slaveof master-port=foo

Exporting:

./my sqldump instancename

Remote mysql sandbox deploy:

deploy remote sandboxes -m MySQLVer -l list,of,servers

Get MySQL Sandbox on Launchpad
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OurSQL Episode 135: Another Kind of Buffer
podcast — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 11:39:14 -0700
This week, we explain the InnoDB and Memcached integration in MySQL 5.6. Ear Candy is about the nonexistent 2-step deadlock detection in MariaDB and At the Movies is Colin Charles talking about the features of MariaDB 10.
InnoDB and memcached in MySQL 5.6

memcached official page

InnoDB integration with memcached MySQL manual page

History of the term NoSQL

setting up the InnoDB memcached plugin in MySQL 5.6
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OurSQL Episode 136: Digging for Information
podcast — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 07:07:52 -0700
We discuss INFORMATION_SCHEMA with plenty of examples on useful queries. In this week's Ear Candy, we talk about resident versus virtual memory on Linux, and in At the Movies has a video about MongoDB.
Events

DB Hangops in May will be Wed May 8th and 22nd noon pacific time.

Upcoming MySQL tech tours
Training

SkySQL Trainings

Tungsten University trainings
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