Archives : December-2021

aka Setting up DBeaver for use with Redshift. Step by step  Setting up DBeaver for use with Redshift is not the most intuitive thing you’ll ever do. A common misconception is that since Redshift is (sorta) built on Postgres, then a Postgres driver is the correct choice. Alas, nope. Here is a quick how-to for setting up DBeaver correctly as possible for Redshift. Here’s the standard DBeaver opening screen Right-click on your Redshift connection and choose “Edit Connection (F4)” That will present you with ..

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This requires that metadata lock instrumentation be enabled. UPDATE performance_schema.setup_instruments SET ENABLED = ‘YES’ WHERE NAME = ‘wait/lock/metadata/sql/mdl’; Once that’s in place, you can do this: SELECT   ml.object_schema,   ml.object_name,   p.id,   p.user,   p.state,   ml.lock_type,   ml.lock_duration,   ml.lock_status,   p.time,   LEFT(p.info, 100) FROM   performance_schema.metadata_locks ml   JOIN performance_schema.threads ..

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#!/usr/bin/env perl # mysqltuner.pl – Version 1.7.9 # High Performance MySQL Tuning Script # Copyright (C) 2006-2018 Major Hayden – major@mhtx.net # Inspired by Matthew Montgomery’s tuning-primer.sh script: # http://forge.mysql.com/projects/view.php?id=44 # # This version further hacked and slashed by rlbyrd off and on since 2009. package main; use 5.005; use strict; use warnings; use diagnostics; ..

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— SQL snippet to calculate table fragmentation. SELECT table_schema, TABLE_NAME, ROUND(DATA_LENGTH / 1024 / 1024) AS data_length, ROUND(INDEX_LENGTH / 1024 / 1024) AS index_length, ROUND(DATA_FREE / 1024 / 1024) AS data_free, CONCAT( ROUND( ( data_free / (index_length + data_length) ) * 100 ), ‘%’ ) AS frag_ratio FROM information_schema.tables WHERE DATA_FREE > 0 AND TABLE_SCHEMA ..

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These are online, self-guided ways for developers wishing to gain more RDBMS understanding (or have a refresher course) in the two most ubiquitous platforms — MySQL and PostgreSQL.  I add and remove from this list from time to time as material becomes outdated or better bits are found. Disclaimer:  I didn’t have a hand in ..

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