12/16/14 In this webinar, Baron Schwartz explains how VividCortex has used MySQL to support a large-scale, high-velocity time-series database in the AWS cloud. If you did not have …
12/11/14 In the wrong context, almost anything can be funny, and MySQL’s error codes are no exception. A few weeks ago, things got a little loopy as we discovered some definitions …
12/04/14 Talk to someone who runs monitoring systems at a company with more than a few servers and you’ll quickly find out that scaling their monitoring systems is far from a minor…
12/01/14 Many of SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor’s customers have strict policies about Internet access from and to their database servers. As a longtime consultant who wo…
11/25/14 We use exponentially weighted moving averages (EWMAs) quite a bit in a few algorithms. They’re one of the tricks everyone should have in their toolbox for cheaply approxim…
11/19/14 Optimizing MySQL performance requires the ability to inspect production query traffic. If you’re not seeing your application’s production workload, you’re missing a vital …
11/12/14 We are excited to announce that we now support monitoring Amazon RDS for MySQL. Previously we relied exclusively on deep packet inspection, but since customers can’t insta…
11/06/14 SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor’s (DPM) SaaS backend is a service-oriented architecture, which means that in addition to our external APIs that our agents and web…
09/22/14 This is a story of using low-level kernel interfaces to optimize an edge case one of our agents encountered in some servers. The TL;DR version is that accessing /proc/ can…
07/28/14 Here’s a simple question that I wasn’t able to solve with Google or the MySQL documentation (which is normally excellent). Perhaps it’s mentioned somewhere, but I can’t fi…
07/25/14 One of our most useful features is Top Queries, which allows users to examine various metrics for families of similar queries. Once a query family is selected, we can dril…
07/21/14 When you send a query to MySQL, you usually don’t need to think explicitly about the types of the expressions in your query. If you compare this to a lot of programming la…