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There has been a lot of discussion around binlog servers recently
There has been a lot of discussion around binlog servers recently for MySQL. This seems to be spurred by the release of MaxScale binlog server. Some...

Jay has done some testing with the improved semi-sync in MySQL 5.7
Jay has done some testing with the improved semi-sync in MySQL 5.7 and it looks good: mysqlperformanceblog/2014/05/27/semi-sync-replication-performan...

If you ever do parallel processing of your binlogs, make sure you
If you ever do parallel processing of your binlogs, make sure you pass TZ environment variable to mysqlbinlog, otherwise it will stat(/etc/localtime) ...

This history of MySQL written by Stewart Smith is very
This history of MySQL written by Stewart Smith is very interesting. I started with MySQL in 2005 when the 5.0 release was not yet stable. It was a goo...

The big 3 distributions (MySQL, Percona, MariaDB) all have thread
The big 3 distributions (MySQL, Percona, MariaDB) all have thread pools. Do any of them allow you to limit the maximum concurrent queries per user? Ma...

Fragmentation is a hard problem for databases. A b-tree is likely
Fragmentation is a hard problem for databases. A b-tree is likely to have an average fill factor of 50% to 70% after a sequence of random updates and ...