{"id":2517,"date":"2010-06-16T18:43:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/?p=2517"},"modified":"2010-06-16T18:43:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:43:42","slug":"personal-observation-more-migrations-from-myisam-to-innodb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/mysql\/personal-observation-more-migrations-from-myisam-to-innodb","title":{"rendered":"Personal observation: more migrations from MyISAM to InnoDB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m evidencing an increase in the planning, confidence &amp; execution for MyISAM to InnoDB migration.<\/p>\n<p>How much can a single consultant observe? I agree Oracle should not go to PR based on my experience. But I find that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More companies are now familiar with InnoDB than there used to.<\/li>\n<li>More companies are interested in migration to InnoDB than there used to.<\/li>\n<li>More companies feel such migration to be safe.<\/li>\n<li>More companies start up with an InnoDB based solution than with a MyISAM based solution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the way I see it. No doubt, the Oracle\/Sun deal made its impact. The fact that InnoDB is no longer a 3rd party; the fact Oracle invests in InnoDB and no other engine (Falcon is down, no real development on MyISAM); the fact InnoDB is to be the default engine: all these put companies at ease with migration.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->I am happy with this change. I believe for most installations InnoDB provides with a clear advantage over MyISAM (though MyISAM has its uses), and this makes for more robust, correct and manageable MySQL instances; the kind that make a DBA&#8217;s life easier and quieter. And it is easier to make customers see the advantages.<\/p>\n<p>I am not inclined to say <em>&#8220;You should migrate your entire database to InnoDB&#8221;<\/em>. I don&#8217;t do that a lot. But recently, more customers approach and say <em>&#8220;We were thinking about migrating our entire database to InnoDB, what do you think?&#8221;<\/em>. What a change of approach.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes: there are still <em>a lot<\/em> of companies using MyISAM based databases, who still live happily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m evidencing an increase in the planning, confidence &amp; execution for MyISAM to InnoDB migration. How much can a single consultant observe? I agree Oracle should not go to PR based on my experience. But I find that: More companies are now familiar with InnoDB than there used to. More companies are interested in migration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,13,51],"class_list":["post-2517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysql","tag-innodb","tag-myisam","tag-opinions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2bZZp-EB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2517"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2626,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2517\/revisions\/2626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/code.openark.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}