We saw in the previous post that MySQL likes memory. We also saw how to perform operating system checks and some configuration changes for Swap and NUMA. Today, we will check what MySQL server can tell us about its memory…
As you may know, sometimes MySQL can be memory-hungry. Of course having data in memory is always better than disk… RAM is still much faster than any SSD disk. This is the reason why we recommended to have the working…
Alexey made this amazing tool that the majority of MySQL DBAs are using, but if you use sysbench provided with your GNU/Linux distribution or its repository on packagecloud.io you won’t be able to use it with the new default authentication…
Many of you already know how to retrieve the size of your dataset, schemas and tables in MySQL. To summarize, below are the different queries you can run: Dataset Size I the past I was using something like this :…
If you are a MySQL DBA for a long time (like me), it’s very complicated to get rid of bad habits. One of them I really need to change is the way to retrieve the list of all the running…
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