While doing some testing (that I published later here) on the still-in-development MySQL 5.7 I wanted to do some analysis on the configuration to see if the changes in performance were due to the code changes or just to the
On my post last week, I analysed some of the most common compression tools and formats, and its compression speed and ratio. While that could give us a good idea of the performance of those tools, the analysis would be
This week we are talking about size, which is a subject that should matter to any system administrator in charge of the backup system of any project, and in particular database backups. I sometimes get questions about what should be
