Percona Performance Conference Talk
My final presentation during the 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo week was with the Percona Performance Conference on the topic of The Ideal Performance Architecture. My talk included discussions on...
View ArticleUnderstanding Different MySQL Index Implementations
It is important to know and understand that while indexing columns in MySQL will generally improve performance, using the appropriate type of index can make a greater impact on performance. There are...
View ArticleSQL Analysis with MySQL Proxy – Part 2
As I outlined in Part 1 MySQL Proxy can be one tool for performing SQL analysis. The impact with any monitoring is the art of monitoring will affect the results, in this case the performance. I don’t...
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Speaking at MySQL UC 2010
My talk on 10x performance improvements – A case study has just been approved for the 2010 MySQL Conference. This will be my 5th straight year speaking at the MySQL conferences. For those in Europe...
View Article10x Performance Improvements in MySQL – A Case Study
The slides for my presentation at FOSDEM 2010 are now available online at slideshare. In this presentation I describe a successful client implementation with the result of 10x performance improvements....
View ArticleIneffective concatenated indexes
In MySQL significant performance improvements can be achieved by the correct use of indexes. It is important to understand different MySQL index implementations and one key improvement on indexes...
View Article2010 MySQL Conference Presentations
I have uploaded my three presentations from the 2010 MySQL Users Conference in Santa Clara, California which was my 5th consecutive year appearing as a speaker. IGNITION – MySQLCamp for Oracle DBA –...
View ArticleWhy is my database slow?
Not part of my Don’t Assume series, but when a client states “Why is my database slow”", you need to determine if indeed the database is slow. Some simple tools come to the rescue here, one is Firebug....
View ArticleTiming your SQL queries
When working interactively with the MySQL client, you receive feedback of the time the query took to complete to a granularity of 10 ms. Enabling profiling is a simple way to get more a more accurate...
View ArticleOptimizing SQL Performance – The Art of Elimination
The most efficient performance optimization of a SQL statement is to eliminate it. Cary Millsap’s recent Kaleidoscope presentation again highlighted that improving performance is function of code path....
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Speaking at Surge Scalability 2010 – Baltimore, MD
I will be joining a great list of quality speakers including John Allspaw, Theo Schlossnagle, Rasmus Lerdorf and Tom Cook at Surge 2010 in Baltimore, Maryland on Thu 30 Sep, and Fri Oct 1st 2010. My...
View ArticleSuccessful MySQL Scalability Presentation
Last night I was the invited guest at the SF MySQL Meetup. In my presentation “Successful MySQL Scalability” I talked about a set of principles to ensure appropriate system architecture, data...
View ArticleImproving MySQL Insert thoughput
There are three simple practices that can improve general INSERT throughput. Each requires consideration on how the data is collected and what is acceptable data loss in a disaster. General inserting...
View ArticleMySQL HandlerSocket under Ubuntu
Starting with the great work of Yoshinori-san Using MySQL as a NoSQL – A story for exceeding 750,000 qps on a commodity server and Golan Zakai who posted Installing Dena’s HandlerSocket NoSQL plugin...
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Five reasons to upgrade to MySQL 5.5
Updated Nov 2011. Check out my Reasons to use MySQL 5.5 Presentation for more in-depth information about installing/configuring and using MySQL 5.5 I have been looking forward to the general...
View ArticleSimple lessons in improving scalability
It can be very easy to improve scalability with a MySQL server by a few simple rules. Here is one of them. “The most efficient way to improve an SQL statement is to eliminate it” There are numerous...
View ArticlePart 2 – Simple lessons in improving scalability
Given the popular response from my first lesson in improving scalability where I detailed simple ways to eliminate unnecessary SQL, let me share another common bottleneck with MySQL scalability that...
View ArticleExtra: Using Index
Many people consider this information in the MySQL Query Execution Plan (QEP) to indicate that the referenced table is using an index. It actually means that ONLY the index is used. This can for larger...
View ArticleReasons to use MySQL 5.5 Presentation
I recently gave a presentation at the New York Effective MySQL Meetup on the new features of, and some of the compelling reasons to upgrade to MySQL 5.5. There are also a number of new MySQL variables...
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Announcing the MySQL Plugin for New Relic
Many application developers would know of New Relic. A SaaS performance and monitoring tool targeted towards your web application monitoring including PHP, Ruby, Java, .Net, Python and Node. With the...
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