One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not ...

Distro: Slackware (not sure of version)<BR>Linux: 2.4.16<BR><BR>couldn't find MySQL installation files, so I don't know what version it is. I did notice that it was in the startup sequence (/usr/local ...

MySQL is a powerful and performant database engine that often suffers from performance issues due to misconfiguration. Obvious culprits for bottlenecks are available memory and CPU resources but disk ...