Dear MySQL and PHP users, we have two good news for you. First, we are proud to announce that one year after the announcement to develop a new MySQL native driver for PHP (mysqlnd), the new driver has been committed … Continue reading →

Things start rolling! mysqlnd is among the five most desired features for PHP 5.3 according to a PHP 5.3 Feature Summary email from Ilia, who – at the time of writing – was doing the release management of PHP. Thanks … Continue reading →

59 – that is the number of statistics collected by mysqlnd. When I started writing this blog post, I hoped it would be easy going describing them. But it wasn’t. Some ten days ago, we’ve had 51 statistics and near … Continue reading →

Andrey has implemented a little mysqlnd only addition to mysqli_debug(): ‘m’ – dump memory information. It works like the other options described in PHP: Debugging ext/mysqli and mysqlnd with the only difference that it is only available with mysqlnd. Without … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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… … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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, … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →