MySQL Performance Blog

At Percona we are pleased to announce couple of services which should be helpful to MySQL Community and which are not offered by MySQL, Oracle and other companies I know about.

First we now do Data Recovery for MySQL. We’re mainly focused on Innodb with this one because it has distinct page structure which allows good data recovery possibilities even in extreme cases such as melt down file system or broken down RAID. We can undelete Innodb data - Heikki was very nice and treats deleted rows very gently allowing them to be 100% recovered if they were not overwritten yet, as well as recover dropped Innodb tables. We also can get some data recovered from covering indexes and other areas, continually improving our tool set.
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Baron have been updating you a lot about chapter by chapter progress so I should not repeat it, instead I thought it would be a good idea to write a bit about how we work on the book.

Generally, quite similar to the previous book this is long process, which is probably what happens when busy people attempt to get time to write a book. I started working on book Outline with Andy Oram (our great editor) about a year ago.
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