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Monitoring MySQL with mytop

Vincent Danen    //    Thu 27 May 2010    //    Linux    //    techmail mysql

This week's techmail is Monitoring MySQL with mytop which looks at the mytop perl tool that can help monitor and diagnose problems with MySQL (mytop is essentially a top for MySQL).

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Managing MySQL with MySQL Workbench

Vincent Danen    //    Fri 07 May 2010    //    Linux    //    techmail mysql

This week's techmail was Managing MySQL with MySQL Workbench. I've always been a CLI guy when it comes to MySQL (as with most things: mutt, irssi, etc.), and when I needed something GUIrific I went with phpMyAdmin. However, I've looked at MySQL Workbench and I like what I'm seeing. The …

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Why PostgreSQL is a better enterprise database than MySQL

Vincent Danen    //    Mon 25 January 2010    //    Linux    //    techmail mysql

This week's techmail is Why PostgreSQL is a better enterprise database than MySQL which takes a look at what makes PostgreSQL a compelling database, when compared to MySQL. Particularly in light of the whole Oracle/MySQL thing, I think it's good to remind people that choice still exists, and that …

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Set up rsyslog to store syslog messages in MySQL

Vincent Danen    //    Tue 12 January 2010    //    Linux    //    techmail mysql

This week's TechMail is Set up rsyslog to store syslog messages in MySQL which gives a brief rundown of how to setup rsyslog to log messages in a MySQL database so that you can use a viewer such as phpLogCon in order to view/filter them. For me, this is …

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Firewall MySQL with GreenSQL

Vincent Danen    //    Thu 08 January 2009    //    Linux    //    techmail mysql

This past week's TechMail is Firewall MySQL with GreenSQL which talks about a really cool little application-level firewall that sits between your database-accessing code and MySQL. Really neat concept and although I've played with it a bit, I need to find some time to really dig into it as I …

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Improve MySQL performance with MySQLTuner

Vincent Danen    //    Fri 24 October 2008    //    Linux    //    techmail mysql

This week's techmail is Improve MySQL performance with MySQLTuner which discusses how to use the MySQLTuner perl script to tune the MySQL server to ensure you're not over-committing resources, that your configuration is sane, and giving helpful pointers on how to optimize your MySQL databases.

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Use command-line MySQL for additional flexibility

Vincent Danen    //    Wed 09 April 2008    //    Linux    //    techmail mysql

This week's TechMail is Use command-line MySQL for additional flexibility which delves into some quickie commands useful on the MySQL CLI client, such as setting prompts, using mysql output in scripts, etc.

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Configure Snort to log packets to MySQL

Vincent Danen    //    Wed 26 March 2008    //    Linux    //    techmail security mysql

This week's TechMail is Configure Snort to log packets to MySQL which looks at using MySQL to store snort logs and BASE to view them. Already there's a comment there about someone wanting to know how to do it on Windows. I'm sure it's possible, but my first instinct was …

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