Comments on: Good Practice / Bad Practice: CREATE TABLE and the Storage Engine http://openquery.com/blog/good-practice-bad-practice-create-table-storage-engine About MySQL, Drizzle, MariaDB and more! Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:40:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Walter http://openquery.com/blog/good-practice-bad-practice-create-table-storage-engine/comment-page-1#comment-1539 Walter Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:29:18 +0000 http://openquery.com/blog/?p=799#comment-1539 @Mark: in an ideal world, that is definitely the case (this will prolly come up in another episode of GP/BP :) ). In this poor real world, most small to medium-sized companies don't have a setup that well structured. @Mark: in an ideal world, that is definitely the case (this will prolly come up in another episode of GP/BP :) ). In this poor real world, most small to medium-sized companies don’t have a setup that well structured.

]]> By: Mark R http://openquery.com/blog/good-practice-bad-practice-create-table-storage-engine/comment-page-1#comment-1537 Mark R Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:34:28 +0000 http://openquery.com/blog/?p=799#comment-1537 If your servers are configured differently, that's bad practice too. Surely your my.cnf and entire platform installation is in source control in a standard place, so that you can use it to install your development servers? There are a few cases where this comes unstuck, such as sizing the buffer pool or key buffer based on available memory (for example, maybe our production servers have 32G of ram, but my dev systems are just 512M VMs). In this case I have an install-time script generate the my.cnf based on how much ram is available. If your servers are configured differently, that’s bad practice too.

Surely your my.cnf and entire platform installation is in source control in a standard place, so that you can use it to install your development servers?

There are a few cases where this comes unstuck, such as sizing the buffer pool or key buffer based on available memory (for example, maybe our production servers have 32G of ram, but my dev systems are just 512M VMs). In this case I have an install-time script generate the my.cnf based on how much ram is available.

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