One of the things people tend to forget is the ability for web servers to compress content before sending it back to client. Client’s browser then uncompresses the data and displays it to the user. Pretty much all of the recent browsers support gzip compression. In this post, I will go over [...]

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Innotop is a very useful tool to monitor innodb information in real time. This tool is written by Baron Schwartz who is also an author of “High Performance MySQL, Second edition” book. [Side note: I highly recommend getting this book when it comes out (in June, 08?). Other authors include: Peter Zaitsev, Jeremy [...]

I need help from my fellow mysql users.  I know some of the people who read this are alot better then me with mysql so hopefully you can help
So today we decided that we are going to migrate one of our master database servers to new hardware.  Since we got the hardware this [...]

I have thought about putting up forums on my blog for LONG time and even thought about writing my own. But after playing with phpBB3 for a while on my other site (http://totalplaystation.com/forum), I have decided to use it instead. Let’s just face it; I don’t have the time or resources to write [...]