Monolith: MySQL server monitoring. I only have servers that run Redhat/Debian/Ubuntu Linux x86 and x86_64. I don’t have machines to test MySQL monitoring for the following OSes. Perhaps you would like to be a test candidate for the new version of Monolith? If so, let me know and you’ll be on the list, as well as get beta testing credit.

OSX Server: PPC and Intel

AIX

FreeBSD / OpenBSD / NetBSD

Windows Server

Solaris: Intel & Sparc

Linux servers that are NOT Intel based.

What this involves: testing the client script, perl modules, snmp stats, and other functions that may require a custom client script for that architecture.

At my previous employer, one of the early decisions that had huge payoffs later was the SQL naming conventions. A good naming convention is more than just a nicety. It lets you write programs that don’t need to be told about the relationships among tables and columns.

There are many ways to do this, [...]

Some time ago, with the help of Patrick Crews, I built a sample database for testing.
Now this database is published as a stand-alone project on Launchpad.

What's special about it?
Unlike the previous databases used in MySQL documentation and tutorials, this database has some weight. The total data is over 160 MB, distributed across 6 table, for a total of about 4 million records. It is not huge, but it is large enough to be non-trivial.
The second important feature is that this database comes with a test suite. This will allow you to make sure that you have loaded the right data.
Getting startedUsing the sample database is trivial.
Open the test db downloads page and get the current …

export MYISAM_BACKUP_NO_INDEX=1

backup database employees to 'emp2.bkp';
+-----------+
| backup_id | …

Remember the first test of online backup? I tested the new feature, which was performing quite well, compared to mysqldump. OK. Get ready for a surprise.
I tested the native MyISAM driver from the mysql-6.0-backup tree, and I compared the results with the normal backup.

I need to generate large (1TB-3TB) synthetic MySQL datasets for testing, with a number of requirements:

a) custom output formatting (SQL, CSV, fixed-len row, etc)
b) referential integrity support (ie, child tables should reference PK values, no orphans,etc)
c) able to generate multiple tables in parallel
d) preferably able to operate without a GUI and/or manual intervention
e) uses a well defined templating construct for data generation
f) preferably open source

Does anyone out there know of a product that meets at least most of these requirements?

*edit*
I found a PHP based data generation script (www.generatedata.com) that is extensible in its output formatting, so it should do everything I need it to do.

Here are my liveblogging notes from MySQL Sandbox: Easily Using Multiple Database Servers in Isolation by Giuseppe Maxia

Giuseppe has been a community member since 2001, and in the past year or so, a MySQL Employee.

He likes to give things away for free — he gave away T-shirts to the early arrivers to the workshop, and that’s why he’s giving away the sandbox as well. The sandbox is NOT an official MySQL product. It is released from GPL, available from http://sf.net/projects/mysql-sandbox.

Why the sandbox? To be able to set up 1 server in under 10 seconds. And to be able to set up multiple MySQL instances very quickly, and to use them quickly.

The sandbox untars in seconds, for …

I'm attending the Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC 2007) in Manhattan, New York right now. It's a two-day single-track event hosted by Google, with mostly non-Google speakers. It's okay, but not great.