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PHP and persistent MySQL connections

spiros — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 19:59:28 +0000

At the MySQL Performance Blog there is a very interesting article about PHP‘s persistent MySQL connections (connection pooling) and why they are not enabled by default in the mysqli extension.

Distributed Transactions in Java

spiros — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:49:03 +0000

If you are interested in distributed transactions checkout the talk Demystifying Java Technology Transaction Processing by Jon Maron, Mark Little and Greg Pavlik. The talk was given at JavaOne 2004 and it available online for the Sun Developer Network members (you can be a member with a free registration).

Mike Spille has also written a series of excellent articles on his blog about XA transactions, that provide many details on how distributed transactions work in a J2EE environment. I really like the information on failures and failure recovery and I believe that every J2EE developer should know this stuff.

From the open source database servers, if I am correct, only MySQL 5 and Apache Derby support the XA protocol, so that they can be enlisted in a 2PC transaction, and unfortunately MySQL has some very serious limitations.

MySQL Federated Storage Engine

spiros — Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:47:41 +0000

The federated storage engine in MySQL is a storage engine that allows you to link multiple database tables, that exists in different instances of the database server, into logical databases. The federated storage engine was added to MySQL at version 5.0 and allows us to do various cool things like synchronous replication (using federated tables and triggers) and handle efficiently historical data.

You can read more about the federated storage engine in the Accessing Distributed Data with the Federated Storage Engine article by Robin Schumacher and in the the MySQL Reference Documentation.