Comments on: Percona Tease Kit

By: admin

admin — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:58:39 +0000

OK – As you can guess I have to many project. Beside my day job of keeping weather data flowing smoothly between the Feds and Public. I’m working on studding the internals of MySQL, keeping my How To documents up to date. Like “The full Monty” and some consulting for others.

Anything you would like to write up I’d be happy to publish with your name. You can email me (mark at grennan dot com) or you could write it up on Google Docs and share it. Thats where I write up all my blog ideas.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:59:20 +0000

I’ve been using these tools for the past couple of years and would like to help with good examples as I typically use them with just a few args if that. The past few weeks I started to build out the config files for easier usage when problems do come or other tasks such as archiving, comparisons (the list goes on).
Please count me in on sharing my usage as well as learning from all of you.

By: Silvia Botros

Silvia Botros — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:20:15 +0000

totally agree….both with you and Baron….

and on that note, and to consolidate effort, if anyone started a community wiki (google has failed me) please point to it and I will be happy to post anything I learned there and also to look for info ;)

I use PT every week…the more heads learning together the better :)

By: Sheeri K. Cabral

Sheeri K. Cabral — Tue, 01 May 2012 02:19:09 +0000

Mark, I totally agree! In fact, I wrote up the first guide to mk-table-checksum (previously mk, now pt) – http://sheeri.net/content/online-verification-master-and-slaves-are- because it was so frustrating to try to figure out how to use it.

And at the time, mk-table-sync wasn’t reliable (you’d sync, then run mk-table-checksum and the same differences would show up), otherwise I would have written a guide to that.

I’m all for great documentation and I’d love to help this effort out.

By: David Hildebrandt, PhD

David Hildebrandt, PhD — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:20:44 +0000

Mark, drop me a line. We talked about this in San Francisco. I felt your frustration. Now I would like to talk to you about ways you can help us fill the need.

By: Matt Davis

Matt Davis — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:05:40 +0000

While I think reading the documentation fully and trying each thing out and seeing that behavior and experiencing what it does with what ever options is highly valuable in and of itself.

But I have been in the same spot you describe: something’s horribly wrong, time is of the essence, and why isn’t there just a frigging real-use example of how to use this command!!

Building documentation is laborious, but something like this is a perfect topic for a wiki.

By: Baron Schwartz

Baron Schwartz — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:14:47 +0000

You should email Dave Hildebrandt to give him feedback on what you would find most useful for the training. His email is dave-dot-hildebrandt-at-percona-dot-com.

I think your posts about each tool will be great, and I will read them carefully to see what I can learn. Toolkit users constantly teach me new things about the tools.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:09:32 +0000

Yup. I don’t think crashes and stalls are common. But, yes pt-stalk will take care of capturing what happened when my server hangs at 3:00am and the SysOps do a kill -9.

I though I know the PT-Toolkit but at this years conference I learned about pt-stalk. This is part of why I’ll be going over each tool and blogging about it.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:58:49 +0000

The Percona ToolKit doesn’t need defending. There are lots of helpful tools that provide MUCH! less then these.

My post is really a backwards compliment. I wouldn’t feel so teased by it if I didn’t want to use it so much. I know documentation is hard. That’s why blog is more like a list of HOWTOs.

Will the training be on-line?

By: Baron Schwartz

Baron Schwartz — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:52:18 +0000

Oh, I meant to say — we offer training courses, too :)