Keith Murphy

I am a MySQL DBA at The Pythian Group (https://www.pythian.com).

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MySQL Memory Consumption


Had an interesting situation come up today with a client. We had a situation where a server crashed because it ran out ...

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Overview of Transaction Logging in MySQL


I was doing some research over the weekend on how transactions work “under the hood” in MySQL. I thought it might be ...

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How Do You Edit a dump/exp/script File?


If you work with databases long enough, you run into a certain problem. You have a mysqldump file* of a table or a ...

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