#DBHangOps 9/4/13 — Data dictionary corruption, MySQL Utilities, Benchmarking, and MySQLConnect!

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Hey there everybody!

Coming up this Wednesday, September 4th, 2013 at 12:00pm pacific (19:00 GMT) take part in #DBHangOps to discuss:

• Data Dictionary Corruption
  • What is it?
  • How does it happen?
  • How did you fix it?
  • What about FRM file corruption?
• MySQL Utilities (requested by Sheeri Cabral!)
  • mysqlfrm — http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/mysqlfrm.html
    • Read about it at Chuck Bell’s blog http://drcharlesbell.blogspot.com/2013/04/mysql-utilities-new-frm-reader-utility.html
  • mysqldiff — Can be used to identify difference between database objects! http://dev.mysql.com/doc/workbench/en/mysqldiff.html
• Benchmarking! (requested by Tim Callaghan)
  • What software do you use to benchmark?
    • See http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/benchmarks.html for more information about MySQL benchmarks.
    • pt-log-player to replay “live” traffic against the server to measure it under different levels of concurrency
    • YCSB — Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark https://github.com/brianfrankcooper/YCSB/wiki
    • DBT2 — http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/osdldbt/index.php?title=Main_Page
  • How do you verify proper configuration of your benchmark machines?
  • How do you ensure you’re getting your money’s worth on new hardware?
• MySQL Connect — What are you excited for?

As always, check out the the #DBHangops twitter search, the DBHangops Twitter Feed, or come right back to this blog post to get a link for the google hangout on Wednesday!

Can’t wait to see all of you for the conversation tomorrow!