Gerry Narvaja

I have been working with databases for the last 20 years. Prior to Pythian worked for MySQL for 6 years.

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MySAR, a Sidekick for Other Monitoring Tools


I’m sure that most people have at least one of the tools listed in Ronald Bradford’s article: Monitoring MySQL Options. ...

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MySAR: A sar-like Utility for MySQL


Why a New Utility? A couple of months back, Tim Procter, Sheeri Cabral and I were discussing about how best to diagnose ...

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Using the Sphinx Search Engine with MySQL


MySQL Full Text Search Limitations Suppose you have a MyISAM table containing a column with a full text index. This ...

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