http://www.xaprb.com/blog Stay curious! Sun, 06 May 2012 15:46:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Further Reading:

• Percona Toolkit gripes welcome
• MySQL Toolkit distribution 620 released
• When to use surrogate keys in InnoDB tables
• The difference between subqueries and derived tables in SQL
• MySQL Toolkit version 989 released

]]> http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/05/06/how-percona-toolkit-divides-tables-into-chunks/ Further Reading:

• A post-conference tradition
• One of the best blog headlines I have ever read
• Why you need to read this blog
• IE blog is a great experience
• Three steps to stopping blog comment spam

]]> http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/05/03/the-first-guest-post-on-xaprb-blog/ Further Reading:

• Free webinar on MySQL performance this Thursday
• Free webinar on preventing MySQL downtime
• Free webinar on monitoring MySQL
• Free webinar Wednesday: verifying replication integrity
• High Performance MySQL, Second Edition: Schema Optimization and Indexing

]]> http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/05/01/free-webinar-non-blocking-mysql-schema-changes/ Further Reading:

• Building a MySQL server with XtraDB for speed
• Sessions of interest at the Percona Performance Conference
• What’s different about XtraDB?
• Xtrabackup is for InnoDB tables too, not just XtraDB
• Book Review: Building powerful and robust websites with Drupal 6

]]> http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2012/04/26/interest-building-in-percona-xtradb-cluster/ Further Reading:

• GnuCash to MySQL export script
• A tweak to column alignment for the mext script
• A script snippet for aggregating GDB backtraces
• A script snippet to relative-ize numbers embedded in text
• What to do when MySQL says skip-innodb is defined

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