MariaDB 5.5.20-alpha
We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.5.20-alpha. MariaDB 5.5.20 is the first Alpha release in the 5.5 series. […]
Consistent transactions between storage engines
You may not realize it, but in MariaDB 5.2 and earlier and in MySQL up to version 5.5, START TRANSACTION […]
Screencast: Installing MariaDB
Instead of the usual text-heavy blog posts that appear here, I thought it would be fun to mix things up […]
Come listen to us talk about MariaDB together with SpamExperts at Open Source Conference 2011 in Amsterdam.
We welcome everyone to Amsterdam where on Friday at 16:00 CET we will be giving a talk together with SpamExperts […]
How to produce a full stack trace for mysqld
The information here was adapted from the AskMonty Knowledgebase. There are two main parts to MariaDB and MySQL: The mysqld […]
Running MySQL or MariaDB from the source directory
One issue that developers often run into is needing or wanting to run a development version of MariaDB or MySQL […]
The Importance of Planning
Whenever I start a new project with MySQL or MariaDB I am tempted to jump in and start creating my […]
Setting optimizer search depth in MySQL
A customer of ours had an interesting problem regarding a query that was taking too long, around 55s. Looking at […]
MariaDB Crash Course
Ben Forta, the author of MySQL Crash Course and Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes, has written what I believe is the […]