In a previous article, I discussed how to get the most out of your memory usage in MySQL systems using the InnoDB storage engine. To review, MySQL has overly conservative memory usage by default. Your MySQL instance may be using only a small fraction of the available memory, leading to unnecessarily poor application performance. In [...]

Over years of moderating at The JavaRanch, I’ve seen one type of question spring up on a weekly basis: that asked by people who need help with JDBC code inside of Java Server Pages (JSPs). As much as we may want to help this individual fix their particular problem, the overriding thought of “STOP WHAT [...]

Unlike a lot of database servers, MySQL is strangely conservative (by default) on how much memory it will allocate. If you’re not careful, you can have 16GB of RAM on your machine with MySQL only using 50MBs, leading to extremely poor performance under heavy load. I know firsthand that navigating MySQL configuration guides can be [...]