Technical Documents on Sun.com

Whether you are new, or already have experience with MySQL, there is a lot of technical information you can find on the Sun site at http://www.sun.com/software/products/mysql/index.jsp. Let's summarize by navigating through the different tabs of this web page:

1) Tech Specs » Support » Performance and Sizing Guides

From the "Tech Specs" tab, "Performance and Sizing Guides" sub-tab you will find the following:

Performance Results

• SugarCRM with MySQL Shines on Sun's Coolthreads Server
• Open-source Solution from Sun Stacks Well Against HP in Virtualization Tests (MySQL Benchmark UltraSPARC T2 beats Xeon on Consolidation of OLTP & Web)
• Performance Leadership with MySQL 5.0
• MySQL Performance Evaluation
• MySQL Cluster Evaluation Guide

Sizing Guides

• HP and MySQL
• MySQL Network and the Dell PowerEdge 2800
• Sun Fire X64 Server and MySQL (with Linux on Intel® Xeon®-based Sun Fire X4150 Server)

Benchmarks

• MySQL Cluster & Dolphin Express High ScalabiltiyDBT2 Benchmarks on Next-Generation Intel Xeon processors
• MySQL 5.0 Helps Set World Record in Java Application Server Benchmark
• MySQL 4.0, Sun and BEA WebLogic Set New World Record for Speed & Price/Performance in SPEC Benchmark

2) Perspectives

From the "Perspectives" tab, you will find the following:

Blogs

• Sun Studio Compiler Options for MySQL on Solaris 10 X64 and SPARC OS : Performance Study
• MySQL Innodb Performance Tuning for disk-bound workloads on CMT servers
• Installation and Configuration Sun Cluster Data Service for MySQL - D Trace Probes in MySQL
• Tuning MySQL on Linux
• Why Did I Change My Mind? Or What Makes a Freedom Fighter Join a Giant? Or Ten Reasons to Get Acquired
• How to Configure My SQL to Run With Solaris Management Facility (SMF) and Optimal Sun Studio Compiler Options for MySQL

Podcasts

• Barton George Talks With MySQL's CEO
• Lustre Talks About Sun's Strong Support for Linux
• How the Sun.com infrastructure uses MySQL

3) Support » Reference Materials

From the "Support" tab, "Reference Materials" sub-tab:

Reference Documentation

• MySQL Innodb Performance Tuning for the Solaris 10 OS
• Blueprint: Optimizing MySQL Server on Sun X64 Servers and Storage
• Sun and MySQL Database Software
• Sun Cool Stack for the Solaris Operating System