Indexes can reduce the amount of data your query touches by orders of magnitude. This results in a proportional query speedup. So what happens when you define a nice set of indexes and you don’t get the performance pop you…

At this week’s SF MySQL Meetup…, I will give a talk: “Understanding Indexing: Three rules on making indexes around queries to provide good performance.” The meetup is 7 pm tomorrow (Wednesday, 6/22), and will be held at CBS Interactive

Percona’s TPCC for MySQL toolset… allows one to measure the query performance for an OLTP workload on various MySQL storage engines. The toolset includes a program to load the database tables, and a program to run queries and measure performance.

Yesterday, Tokutek was invited (thanks to David Hughson, Vice-Consul of the British Consulate) to the Massachusetts State House for a forum on international business, hosted by Governor Deval Patrick. I felt pretty good about our Commonwealth – apparently we are…

In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin stated… “In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.” In the 21st century this is still valid, but there is also an additional truism, especially in IT – the certainty of digital