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MySQL replication: most important config parameters for performance on slave server?

I'm setting up a mysql master-slave configuration, where slave is located on a much weaker sever. Since, if I understand correctly, slave only works on updates/inserts, what are the most critical ...
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Recommended hardware for dedicate sever using MySQL for POS (point of sale) [closed]

I'm having some doubts about this point in my project (it's social service). The POS have developed on VB.NET using Visual Studio 2010. The MAXIMUM number of POS that is thinking to attend this server ...
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New Database vs New Table for User Registrations

Here's an example, there is this application that completes a task (mostly data-enrty stuff). Users can sign-up on a website to begin using the application straight away. At the moment, I was looking ...
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Can I configure MySQL's typecasting to consider 0 != 'foo'?

This article points out the following security problem with MySQL: USERS id | email | password_reset_token 1 | one@example.com | QTlXww)uV!Hdg3U6aGwKV2FPvAqzVgPx 2 | two@example.com | ...
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Multiple database servers for performance vs failover

If I have two database servers, and I am looking for maximum performance vs high-availability, what configuration would be best? Assuming the architecture is two load-balanced web/app servers in ...
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MySQL specific database configuration file

In MySQL's configuration file I've globally disabled autocommit as so. [mysqld] autocommit=0 I need to turn MySQL's autocommit on for a specific Ruby on Rails database though. It could be for the ...
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Is there a canonical list of MySQL defaults which should be changed

I'm setting up a new mysql server as we're building a new app at work. Most of the developers/operations guys are familiar with mysql. Many of mysql's settings (eg strict mode) are set badly by ...
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Make sure MySQL is not accepting remote connections

I am currently doing development for a LAMP-based website. I do not know what configuration changes have been made to MySQL since it was installed on our server. The way that we use MySQL, there is no ...
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Where is the MySQL variable - innodb_flush_method?

I would like to tweak the value of innodb_flush_method to find out its performance impact on a database server. That variable is listed when I run the command SHOW VARIABLES. But I could not find it ...
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Dynamic change to innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit

This is related to this question. It does help to get better performance for InnoDB tables. According to MySQL manual, innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit is a global dynamic variable. Thus, I can change ...
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What's the most unsafe MySQL configuration?

I have MySQL 5.5.27-29.0-log instance running specifically for Jenkins. Since tests data is always recreated during setup, ACID is unnecessary and I'm hoping to sacrifice it to gain more performance. ...
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The best MySQL configuration for my server

I'm little newbie in configuring mysql and I need some advices. Few days ago I made little home server on Ubuntu Server 12.04 with samba, mysql 5.5, apache 2.2, PHP 5.4.6 etc. I'm using it to ...
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MySQL Server Config, Small Timeframe, Extreme Usage-Scenario

I want to configure a MySQL server for the following scenario. A large amount of users will need to sign up for a university course selecting individual "timeslots". The signup page will open at a ...
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What should I set max_connections to for MySQL?

I have MySQL 5.1.35 on Linux Centos. The Linux server has 2GB RAM with 14GB of disk space. I have created some web services using the Restlet framework in Java that has 1,000+ users. What should I ...
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Proper tuning for 30GB InnoDB table on server with 48GB RAM

I have a 30GB 15M rows InnoDB MySQL 5.5.15 table. It is running on a server with many other MyISAM tables (300GB db). The system has 48GB RAM. Besides the default configurations, I've changed the ...
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MySQL table locks solution -> InnoDb / Partitions

I'm experiencing many table locks in a MyISAM MySQL table that is pretty big (Constx10xGB and 15M rows). It's mainly caused due many heavy inserts. My current thoughts to optimize: Changing to ...
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Why restoring a large sql file via SSH seems to quit partially through the process

I have a large (~5GB) .sql file I am attempting to restore via SSH, it seems to quit in the middle of the restore process. When I come back hours later after issuing the command (the file has 7 ...
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I've got 16GB of ram, how should I configure MySQL Server?

I've got a dedicated production server with multiple cpus and 16GB of ram. I would like to know how can I configure it better to take advantage of the server resources for better performance because ...
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Centos 6.2 mysql configuration file help

I have a new centos 6.2 setup. Below is the configuration file. The machine is going to be fully innodb and it had 8Gb ram. What else must I include in the .cnf? [mysqld] datadir=/var/lib/mysql ...
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innodb_flush settings on Amazon RDS

Setting innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 2 improves my application performance considerably on my local development environment. The response time and number of requests per second on a 40 concurrent ...
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MySQL slow log configuration

Is there a way of making MySQL slow logs to start new log file every day ? At the moment its just a single large file, and have to grep lines for every day. It would be much more convenient to have ...
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How to initiate MySQL on Mac OS X 10.6.8?

I followed this tutorial to install MySQL on Mac OS X 10.6.8. Now I get he following errors: $ mysqladmin version /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed error: ...
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How to set datadir to different values based on the hostname in my.cnf?

How to set datadir to different values based on the hostname in my.cnf? I want to use the same my.cnf file on a Linux machine and a Mac OS X machine where the datadir should have different values.
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How to set a specific directory location for individual MySQL database?

Is it possible to set each database in MySQL to use a separate datadir? I'm running a userdir development (sandbox) server and would like to put the MySQL data files for the database(s) for that user ...
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Installing Sphinx on Mac OS with XAMPP

We have: Sphinx 2.0.3 Mac OS 10.6.8 XAMPP 1.7.3 (with MySQL 5.1.44) Here is PATH: user:sphinx-2.0.3-release user$ echo $PATH ...
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How to customize Place Order Functionality In Magento? [closed]

In Magento, when any customer buys product from front-end, then at last customer goes through order placing. According to my need, I have created one CUSTOM TABLE in Magento database. So my ...
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Is raid 5 suitable for a mysql installation?

Is raid 5 suitable for a mysql installation? Let me explain my application further. My application is a socket programming which will connect with gps device to receive gps string and there after do ...
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my.cnf values not applying - Optimizing MySQL in CentOS LAMP

I have checked for other occurences of my.cnf and I have found only one occurrence of /etc/my.cnf. Then, I went ahead to fix in my values, e.g. query_cache_size etc. After saving and literally ...
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Is it possible to have passwords configured per database or per host in .my.cnf

I have the following in my ~/.my.cnf [client] password="somepass" but this is not the password I use for every user@host/database I connect to. Is there some way to specify in the config different ...
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Creating and editing my.cnf by MySQL Workbench?

I just installed MySQL Server and MySQL Workbench on a clean Snow Leopard MacBook. I hooked up Workbench with the server and was able to start the MySQL Server from within the Workbench. I enter the ...