OurSQL Episode 5: Falcon, Part 1

Finally, episode 5 is here. In this episode, the first part in a two-part series about Falcon, the new storage engine provided by MySQL, we talk about what happens when you query a Falcon table, going over and explaining MVCC and the record cache. Next episode will go over the serial logs and indexes.

Direct play episode 5 at:
http://technocation.org/content/oursql-episode-5%3A-falcon%2C-part-1-0

Subscribe to the podcast by clicking:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=206806301

You can Direct download all the oursql podcasts at:
http://technocation.org/podcasts/oursql/

Jim Starkey is a great speaker, and very funny to listen to – at one point he refers to a performance hit as a “performance surprise”. He’s also a piece of history – listen for his take on MVCC, which he invented.

Links:
Falcon features:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/falcon/en/se-falcon-features.html

Falcon documentation
http://www.mysql.org/doc/refman/5.1/en/se-falcon.html

Special thanks to Arjen Lentz (http://arjen-lentz.livejournal.com/) and Mark Matthews (http://www.jroller.com/page/mmatthews ) of MySQL AB for their answers and explanations, and Jim Starkey and Technocation for their use of the audio from the July 2006 Boston User Group meeting with Jim Starkey.

Finally, episode 5 is here. In this episode, the first part in a two-part series about Falcon, the new storage engine provided by MySQL, we talk about what happens when you query a Falcon table, going over and explaining MVCC and the record cache. Next episode will go over the serial logs and indexes.

Direct play episode 5 at:
http://technocation.org/content/oursql-episode-5%3A-falcon%2C-part-1-0

Subscribe to the podcast by clicking:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=206806301

You can Direct download all the oursql podcasts at:
http://technocation.org/podcasts/oursql/

Jim Starkey is a great speaker, and very funny to listen to – at one point he refers to a performance hit as a “performance surprise”. He’s also a piece of history – listen for his take on MVCC, which he invented.

Links:
Falcon features:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/falcon/en/se-falcon-features.html

Falcon documentation
http://www.mysql.org/doc/refman/5.1/en/se-falcon.html

Special thanks to Arjen Lentz (http://arjen-lentz.livejournal.com/) and Mark Matthews (http://www.jroller.com/page/mmatthews ) of MySQL AB for their answers and explanations, and Jim Starkey and Technocation for their use of the audio from the July 2006 Boston User Group meeting with Jim Starkey.

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