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How to Stop Hating MySQL

Posted November 15th, 2008 by sheeri

At LISA 2008, I gave a presentation entitled "How to Stop Hating MySQL: Fixing Common Mistakes and Myths".

The presentation slides can be downloaded as a PDF at:

http://technocation.org/files/doc/stophatingmysql.pdf

View the video online at http://technocation.org/node/646/play or download the 202.5 MB Flash video file (.flv) directly at http://technocation.org/node/646/download.

Here are some notes and links I referred to:

Technocation, Inc containing free videos, a MySQL podcast (currently on hiatus) and blog posts about MySQL.

Why you want to switch to MySQL 5.1

How MySQL Uses Memory

Query Cache Configuration

EXPLAIN manual page

EXPLAIN cheatsheet

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Hey, I saw you mentioned

On November 16th, 2008 Olaf van der Spek (not verified) says:

Hey,

I saw you mentioned batch updates and insert ... on duplicate key update. I've been using this trick as well, but there is an issue with it: it's not a pure update, it'll do an insert if the row doesn't exist for whatever reason.
This is a disadvantage by itself, but it gets worse when strict mode is enabled.
What are your thoughts about these issues?

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