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One good news, one bad news - that’s the frank way we blog about mysqlnd. The last posting on significant memory savings (40%) and new tuning options was good news. The bad news: mysqlnd might have bugs. How to report and debug these bugs - using mysqli_debug() - is subject of this posting.

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mysqlnd saves memory. It consumes half as much memory as libmysql. This is what we have been convinced of. This is what we taught you. Then I tried to test it and made Andrey get nervous for a few hours… Meanwhile he is fine again and we can announce: mysqlnd saves memory, not only in […]

Have you ever been annoyed about the input and output binding that is part of Prepared Statements? Prepared Statements have their room in PHP and MySQL[i] for some good reasons. Though, I recall that I didn’t like the output binding when I tried them for the first time. I wanted the good old mysqli_fetch_assoc() to […]

Lastly, I’ve been blogging about positive performance related feedback on mysqlnd. Whenever I did so, I got some positive feedback - for obvious reasons: I was posting good marketing news. On the one hand I like to get that feedback, on the other hand I do not feed comfortable with it. As much as […]

Do you happen to have functions that read all rows of a database result into one array, without processing the rows, and pass the array to other functions? For example, do you fetch results in your database class and pass them to a template engine displaying? If so, here is excellent news for you. mysqli_fetch_all(), […]

Miha Nedok from http://www.izklop.com wrote us a few days ago about their mysqlnd test run:

I wish I had another production box to test. But what we and our users see now, actually the users notified our team that the site is suddenly “always loading fast”.. The only change… you guessed it mysqlnd installed. It wasn’t […]