Man, giving a talk remote is always hard.  Is my mic too soft?  Can they hear me?  Did some poor guy with a hearing aid just have it blown out ’cause I had my mic too loud?  Am I pacing ok?  What about handling questions?

Well, thanks to the expert help of Susie and Clint, I didn’t have to worry about any of this while giving my talk on Tuning Sugar Databases to SDUG.  Everything functioned smoothly and the only thing I had to worry about was pacing myself, which seemed to work out good. Hopefully those who attended picked up a few new tricks.  For those who didn’t get to attend live, we’ll have a recording of the webinar online soon.  I’ll update when we do.

I promised some links during the presentation, so here you go.  Our wiki is online @ http://www.sugarcrm.com/wiki/.  There’s excellent info throughout the wiki, but the settings I touched on specifically are all outlined in Performance Tweaks for Large Systems, except one.  Someone mentioned that there was no reference to $calculate_response_time on the wiki, that is correct and will be fixed.  In meantime, here’s a quick intro to it. Adding the following line to your config.php:

"calculate_response_time" = true,

Will get you output like:

The other links I mentioned where, in no particular order:

• MySQL Manual
• MySQL GUI Tools
• SugarCRM’s CTO Series

Also, for anyone who’s interested, the MySQL AB tool for automating many of the processes I outlined is MySQL Enterprise. If you’re short on people or expertise, outsourcing your DBA duties to the company that created MySQL is a great option.

Hope that helps get you started on tuning your SugarCRM installs on MySQL.  If you have any questions that we didn’t get covered in the presentation or Q & A, post them here and we’ll get you answers.