Interesting writeup of hacking MySQL to dirty memcached entries after replication sync.

Quoted: REPLACE INTO profile (`first_name`) VALUES ('Monkey') WHERE `user_id`='jsobel' MEMCACHE_DIRTY 'jsobel:first_name'

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Google MySQL patches.

Quoted: * SemiSyncReplication - block commit on a master until at least one slave acknowledges receipt of all replication events.
* MirroredBinlogs - maintain a copy of the master's binlog on a slave
* TransactionalReplication - make InnoDB and slave replication state consistent during crash recovery
* UserTableMonitoring - monitor and report database activity per account and table
* InnodbAsyncIo - support multiple background IO threads for InnoDB
* FastMasterPromotion - promote a slave to a master without restart

Falcon vs. MyISAM vs. InnoDB.

Some useful-looking tips here.

Quoted: Every programmer loves to optimize, even when we know we shouldn't. To satisfy your cravings MySQL has several keywords that can be placed in your SQL statement to give the database server an explicit optimization instruction.

Somewhat strange ... obviously it's still packaged and runs, they just won't support it.

Quoted: MySQL Quietly Drops Support For Debian Linux -- article related to Databases, Debian, and Linux.

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