MySQL keeps many different files, some contain real data, some contain meta data. Witch ones are important? Witch can your throw away? This is my attempt to create a quick reference of all the files used by MySQL, whats in them, what can you do if they are missing, what can you do with them. [...]
Too much of a good thing… I have had a lot of people asking me about MySQL lately so I thought is was time to share something I learned. Too much caching space in MySQL can be a bad thing. You would thing the more you can stuff your entire database into memory the better [...]