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Percona toolkit 2.0.3

A quick note to announce that Percona toolkit 2.0.3 is now available on Dotdeb for Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” on both amd64 and i386 architectures. You’ll find its Changelog here.

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MySQL

Maatkit is now known as Percona Toolkit

Useful tool for any MySQL DBA, Maatkit is a collection a utilities that ease painful MySQL manipulations (archive tables, keep a slave in sync, analyse slow queries…).

Or should I say “Maatkit was…”. In fact, it’s now known as “Percona Toolkit” and it’s available on Dotdeb for both Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” and 5.0 “Lenny”.

Enjoy.

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MySQL DBA, Maatkit is good for you!

Maatkit is one of the great Open Source tools (among Percona Server, Xtrabackup and so on…) published by Percona. It’s a collection of utilities that help MySQL DBAs in many redundant, complex or boring tasks. For example :

  • mk-query-digest that outputs a digest of the queries from a slow-query logfile or from a running MySQL server,
  • mk-slave-delay that could help you to keep a copy of your databases while rolling back a new version of your application,
  • mk-parallel-dump and mk-parallel-restore to speed up your dump/load processes,
  • mk-table-checksum that checks the consistency of your MySQL slave,

If you’re a MySQL DBA that runs Debian servers, you really should install the new Maatkit packages from Dotdeb and read its documentation. There is a tool that will help you on your daily usage of MySQL, for sure!