Transactions on InnoDB

Well, it took us a little while (we’ve been busy !), but we’ve now posted our presentations on InnoDB from the MySQL Conference and Expo 2009. You can download these presentations by Heikki Tuuri, Ken Jacobs and Calvin Sun from the InnoDB website, as follows:

• Ken and Heikki: InnoDB: Innovative Technologies for Performance and Data Protection
• Heikki: Crash Recovery and Media Recovery in InnoDB
• Heikki: Concurrency Control: How it Really Works
• Calvin and Heikki: InnoDB File Formats and Source Code Structure

The description of these and other presentations about InnoDB are available here.

That should read “Talks, Talks, Talks” … There will be several presentations by InnoDB experts at the upcoming 2009 MySQL Conference and Expo. Whether you’re a newbie or an experienced DBA deeply familiar with InnoDB, you won’t want to miss these important talks about InnoDB:

• Innovative Technologies for Performance and Data Protection by Ken and Heikki, Tues, 11:55am
• Crash Recovery and Media Recovery in InnoDB by Heikki, Wed, 2pm
• InnoDB Internals: InnoDB File Formats & Source Code Structure by Heikki and Calvin, Wed, 5:15pm
• Concurrency Control: How it Really Works by Heikki, Thurs, 2:50pm

Note the new times for the last two talks above. Be sure to check the conference schedule! Not much more to say about this topic, at least not here. Hear it all there!

InnoDB executes a lot of transactions for MySQL users. And users and technical experts in the InnoDB community exchange lots of information about InnoDB … transacting in ideas … all the time. A great opportunity to participate in some of these transactions is the upcoming MySQL Conference and Expo.

Does your InnoDB-based application need more transactions to execute more quickly and reliably? Come hear these noted speakers present information that can help you get the most out of InnoDB:

• Distributed InnoDB Caching w/memcached — Matthew Yonkovit & Yves Trudeau (MySQL), Tue 2pm
• InnoDB database recovery techniques — Peter Zaitsev (MySQL Performance Blog), Wed 3:05pm
• High Availability & Scalability Patches from Google — Ben Handy & Justin Tolmer (Google), Wed 4:25pm
• InnoDB Performance & Usability Patches — Vadim Tkachenko & Yasufumi Kinoshita (Percona), Thu 2pm

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Well, here we are … the first post to the InnoDB blog.   Now there is a blog dedicated solely to InnoDB products and technology. The Innobase team will be posting here regularly on all manner of topics regarding the InnoDB storage engine.  We plan to provide timely updates and important technical information about InnoDB-related products including the built-in InnoDB distributed by MySQL, the InnoDB Plugin and InnoDB Hot Backup.  We invite you to visit regularly and post your comments.

We’ve borrowed the name “Transactions on” from the computer-science journal Transactions on Database Systems, published by the ACM society for computing professionals.  Like that journal, this blog will cover a wide range of database topics, specifically as they relate to InnoDB.

Users of InnoDB know a transaction is an atomic all-or-nothing set of changes made to a collection of data.  But according to Webster’s Dictionary, a transaction also is “a communicative action or activity involving two parties or things that reciprocally affect or influence each other”.  So, a transaction is also an exchange of ideas.

Welcome to this place to transact in ideas about InnoDB!