Too many connections? No problem!

MySQL Performance Blog

Did that ever happen to you in production? Just happened to one of our customers. Want to know what we did? For demo purposes I’ll use sandbox here (so the ./use is actually executing mysql cli). Oh and mind it is not a general-purpose best-practice, but…

23 March 2010

Another week, another terse email from Steve Jobs

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Filed under: Steve Jobs, iPad 9to5Mac has posted an email sent to them from a UK reader where Steve Jobs again calls it as he sees it. The UK reader emailed Jobs to ask if the iPad's Photos app would support Google's Picasa library format. Jobs' reply was…

22 March 2010

Batch append data to the Notes field on Address Book cards

MacOSXHints.com

I've been going crazy with Address Book lately -- ever since I started to Sync with Mobile Me. One thing I've been doing is creating Smart Group, but I've run into some pretty buggy behaviors; this was especially true for rules. I eventually discovered…

22 March 2010

App Store payola, and what it means for the app ecosystem

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Filed under: App Store Earlier this week, Wired posted a story about what they call "App Store Payola" -- the practice of sites that solicit cash payments (or other compensation) in order to expedite or publish app reviews. This isn't anything new. Ever…

21 March 2010

InnoDB TABLE/INDEX stats

MySQL Performance Blog

In Released and new coming features I did not mentioned two additional INFORMATION_SCHEMA tables available in XtraDB: It is These table show statistics about InnoDB tables ( taken from InnoDB data dictionary). * | other_size | other index (non primary…

20 March 2010

Anticipating WWDC

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Filed under: WWDC It's March. It's the month where beer turns green, where the road repair crews start taking over the midwest of the United States, and when Apple usually announces its Worldwide Developers' Conference dates. With the hotly anticipated…

19 March 2010

Is your MySQL Server Loaded ?

MySQL Performance Blog

So you’re running the benchmark/stress test – how do you tell if MySQL server is really loaded ? This looks like the trivial question but in fact, especially when workload consists of simple queries I see the load generation and network really putting a…

19 March 2010

Percona-XtraDB-9.1: released and new coming features

MySQL Performance Blog

Recently Alexandr announced new Percona-XtraDB-9.1 release, and now it is good time to summarize features we have and what is expected soon. This release contains long waited features from 5.0: Extended slow.log is now even more extended, there is…

18 March 2010