The title says it all, and the explanation is very interesting. The consequences of disabling binlog due to lack of storage are catastrophic. Entertaining and worrying at the same time.

Introduction to guaranteed data availability with Continuent Tungsten for MySQL. How to keep data available with automatic seamless failover, automatic slave promotion, avoid data loss, increase database performance and lower cost of data integration. Presented by Robert Hodges, CTO at Continuent.

Introduction to Continuent Tungsten for MySQL: increasing MySQL performance with advanced high performance parallel replication. Presented by Robert Hodges, CTO at Continuent.

This article describes the physical difference between the INT and BIGINT datatypes, and shows how selecting the correct datatype can provide a more space efficient disk storage for your MySQL Data.

MySQL users often dream about a more powerful yet stable database server. They want a server with more features, like expanding macros, customized logging, access to shell commands, access to live tables from other DBMS. Every feature, given enough development time, can be eventually implemented, but users want them now, with the current GA server. It can be done. Using a proxy server, some of those dreams come true. Today.

This article explains how to test the performance of a large database with MySQL 5.1, showing the advantages of using partitions. The test database uses data published by the US Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Currently, the data consists of ~ 113 million records (7.5 GB data + 5.2 GB index).

Following a Query Back and Forth in the MySQL Server

Mikael Ronstrom, father of MySQL Cluster, explains the architecture of NDB (MySQL Cluster).

Jan Kneschke, creator of MySQL Proxy, gives an overview of the architecture and usage of MySQL Proxy.

Reggie Burnett, father of the MySQL Connector/NET API, explains how to build MySQL on Windows.

MySQL memory handling and memory handling in Falcon

Mikael "Monty" Widenius, father of MySQL, gives an overview of query execution and use of temp tables in the MySQL Server.

How to do a good code review

MySQL Error Handling and Reporting

Ann Harrison and Jim Starkey, creator of Falcon, explain the archtecture of the Falcon storage engine.

Timour Katchaounov explains the inner workings of the MySQL Optimizer.

Konstantin Osipov explains how locking works in MySQL.

Brian Aker explains the technology behind the MySQL storage handler interface.

Lars Thalmann, now leading the MySQL Replication team, explains the architecture of MySQL Replication.

my.sys library and algorithms explained