Controlling Maatkit from Ruby
There is a Ruby interface to Maatkit that looks like a handy idiomatic way to script Maatkit tools.
View ArticleKeeping docs and program options in sync
One of my pet peeves is when documentation is wrong. Another pet peeve is keeping documentation right. Crack open a source tarball for many programs and you’ll see a chunk of text that gets printed out...
View ArticleNew Maatkit tool: mk-table-usage
This month’s Maatkit release includes a new tool that’s kind of an old tool at the same time. We wrote it a couple years ago for a client who has a very large set of tables and many queries and...
View ArticlePlanned change in Maatkit & Aspersa development
I’ve just sent an email to the Maatkit discussion list to announce a planned change to how Maatkit (and Aspersa) are developed. In short, Percona plans to create a Percona Toolkit of MySQL-related...
View ArticleA clarification on mk-slave-prefetch
It seems to be a popular misconception that mk-slave-prefetch is designed to keep a MySQL replica server “warm” and ready to serve production traffic in case the master is demoted or fails. This is not...
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